The Lescure family modernised SEB with a pressure cooker and made it a global brand.
SEB, run by the Lescure family, launched the Super Cocotte in 1953 and used modern marketing to become a small-appliance leader.
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2,000 VERÖFFENTLICHTE FÄLLE · REGELMÄSSIG AKTUALISIERTCognizant hired through the 2008-09 recession, grew 16%, and passed Wipro
While peers cut staff in 2008-09, Cognizant hired aggressively; 2009 revenue still rose 16% to $3.279B and it later overtook Wipro.
Fall lesenNicolas Hayek's low-cost Swatch rescued the Swiss watch industry in the 1980s
Japanese quartz crushed Swiss watchmaking, so Hayek merged two failing groups into SMH and launched the 1983 Swatch; SMH became the world's largest watchmaker.
Fall lesenEscorts' third-generation chief brought Kubota in as partner and shares hit records
After father Rajan Nanda died in 2018, Nikhil Nanda led Escorts into a Kubota alliance — a 10% stake, then 44.8% — and the stock hit a record.
Fall lesenEthereum became the platform of choice by baking programmability into its chain
Ethereum turned a blockchain into a platform by embedding a scripting language, then captured most of the value in the 2017 crypto-asset boom.
Fall lesenGulf Marine Services renegotiated its bank debt and returned to profit by 2021
GMS missed a $75m equity deadline, renegotiated its bank debt, raised $27.8m of equity, cut net debt to $376m and posted its first profit since 2016.
Fall lesenA daughter's TikTok marketing cleared S$400,000 of debt and saved a father's tyre shop.
Second-gen Cordillia Tan joined Pitstop Tyres as COVID pushed it toward bankruptcy; her content-led approach cleared S$400k debt and lifted revenue past S$1m.
Fall lesenA widow and her son took over Schaeffler and made it a technology leader
Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler took the helm of Schaeffler after her husband's death in 1996 and, with her son, turned it into a global technology company.
Fall lesenRadio Flyer's third-generation CEO turned a stalled brand into a design company
Robert Pasin took over Radio Flyer in 1997 and shifted it from making steel wagons to designing toys, growing the company about fivefold.
Fall lesenValaris emerged from Chapter 11 in 2021 and agreed to Transocean's $5.8B takeover.
Driller Valaris exited Chapter 11 on April 30, 2021 after eliminating $7.1B of debt, and in 2026 agreed to Transocean's $5.8B all-stock acquisition.
Fall lesentvOne's metahuman anchors made Indonesian news multilingual without layoffs
tvOne paired presenters with digital avatars and AI translation, turning a newsroom constraint into multilingual coverage without replacing staff.
Fall lesenRenesas took a ¥150bn state lifeline in 2013; its shares later rose 13x
Bleeding cash after three parents' chip units merged, Renesas let a state fund take 69% for ¥138bn, cut 11,000 jobs, and rebuilt into a 13x stock.
Fall lesenHyundai's Assurance plan doubled its US share while GM and Chrysler went bankrupt
Hyundai promised to buy back cars from owners who lost their jobs, helping its US market share jump from about 3 to 4.3 percent in 2009.
Fall lesenA pay and performance revolt pushed Nardelli out; Home Depot refocused on stores
Relational Investors' campaign over Bob Nardelli's pay and store strategy led him to resign with $210M; Frank Blake then re-centred Home Depot on its stores.
Fall lesenRenault revived the 5 nameplate as a 25,000-euro electric car
Renault brought back the Renault 5 as the R5 E-Tech electric, from about 25,000 euros with up to 249 miles of range.
Fall lesenSkymark Airlines' post-bankruptcy revival to first profit in four years
After filing for civil rehabilitation in January 2015, Skymark cut costs and allied with ANA; FY2017 net profit was ¥6.78B, its first in four years.
Fall lesenRapidAPI merged with Mashape, then reached 8,000 APIs and 400B monthly calls
After merging with Mashape, RapidAPI used a $9M Series A to scale one marketplace for external APIs, listing 8,000 APIs and handling 400B monthly calls.
Fall lesenRCN swapped two-thirds of its debt for equity and kept its fiber network
Fiber overbuilder RCN cut debt by $1.2B by giving lenders equity, emerged in late 2004 and later became part of Astound Broadband.
Fall lesenHush Puppies went from grandma's shoe to runway item by chasing geek chic.
Wolverine's Hush Puppies revived in the mid-'90s on retro geek chic: from 100,000 pairs in 1994 to 1.5M expected by 1997, with sales up to $511M.
Fall lesenValueAct's board seat pushed Olympus to sell its struggling camera business
ValueAct became Olympus top shareholder and put a partner on its board; within 18 months Olympus sold its unprofitable imaging unit and focused on medical gear.
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