Aster DM split its Gulf and India hospital businesses in a $1.01bn separation
After running hospitals in the Gulf and India under one Dubai-listed shell, Aster DM sold its GCC arm to a Fajr Capital-led vehicle and refocused on India.
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Abu Dhabi's ADQ built a 22.3% beachhead through AD Ports Group, then tendered at AED 3 a share for the rest of Dubai-listed Aramex, ending with 63.2% control.
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Alabbar's Adeptio bought the KFC and Pizza Hut franchise empire from Kuwait's Al-Kharafi family, then relisted it on ADX at a $6.01bn valuation.
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Abu Dhabi's national oil company floated 7.5% of ADNOC Drilling on ADX — its second unit IPO — turning rig capacity into market-priced capital.
Leer el casoPLDT cut its dividend to fund the data pivot and earned its way past crisis profits
OTT apps crushed SMS and voice, so PLDT's board cut the payout from 75% to 60% of core EPS, funded data capex, and returned net income to Php22.8bn by 2019.
Leer el casoGerdau shrank through Brazil's steel rout to a R$2.3bn profit in 2018
Three loss years left Brazil's biggest steelmaker R$4.6bn underwater in 2015; it sold Europe and Central America, cut capacity, and earned R$2.3bn by 2018.
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When Indonesia banned raw ore exports, state miner Antam rebuilt around ferronickel smelters, traded that capacity for export quotas, and grew 2018 output 50%.
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After fake Treasury bids nearly destroyed Salomon, Buffett installed Deryck Maughan, rebuilt controls and the firm posted record pre-tax profit in 1992.
Leer el casoLululemon rode out the 2008 crash by halting expansion and protecting prices
Comps fell 22% at the trough. The young retailer cut store openings instead of cutting prices, and came out of the recession into hypergrowth.
Leer el casoKellogg's $4.56bn Keebler bet took the cereal king into snacks and back to growth
Kellogg bought Keebler for $4.56bn including assumed debt, absorbed a 19% earnings drop in 2001, then grew diluted EPS from $1.75 to $2.14 in three years.
Leer el casoJim Kilts rebuilt Gillette's margins and doubled profit, then sold it to P&G
Hired from Nabisco in 2001 after years of profit decay, Kilts cut trade costs, rebuilt advertising and innovation, and net income reached $1.69bn by 2004.
Leer el casoToyota's Fukushima-era chip stockpile carried it past GM in the 2021 US market
After the 2011 quake Toyota rewrote its continuity plan and made suppliers hold extra chips. In 2021 rivals halted lines; Toyota kept building.
Leer el casoSuncor bought Petro-Canada at the 2009 oil crash bottom to build Canada's energy giant
With crude near $50 and oil sands projects frozen, Suncor's all-stock deal absorbed Canada's former crown oil firm and cut $1.3B a year in costs.
Leer el casoFred Hassan's Action Agenda turned Schering-Plough's losses into a 2005 profit
A consent decree, the Claritin patent cliff and federal probes drove Schering-Plough into loss; Hassan's Action Agenda and Zetia returned it to profit.
Leer el casoSanDisk rejected Samsung's $5.85B bid in 2008 and sold to Western Digital for $19B
The flash maker said no to Samsung on the eve of the crash, survived the NAND glut, and sold seven years later for more than three times the offer.
Leer el casoZoomlion paid €163m for 60% of Italy's CIFA and built a global concrete-machinery business
A Changsha machinery group led a consortium to buy Italy's CIFA in 2008; the concrete business passed RMB10 billion and carried Zoomlion to a Hong Kong listing.
Leer el casoStrauss: the founder's granddaughter turned an Israeli dairy into a global food group
Ofra Strauss took the chair of her family's dairy in 2001, merged it with Elite, and split new markets with PepsiCo instead of going global alone.
Leer el casoResona took Japan's ¥1.96 trillion bank rescue in 2003 and repaid it all by 2015
Japan injected ¥1.96 trillion of preferred capital instead of liquidating the lender; the retail-focused bank bought the state out within twelve years.
Leer el casoMarket Basket: a fired CEO, a six-week worker revolt, and a $1.5B family buyout
Market Basket's board fired CEO Arthur T. Demoulas in June 2014; his non-union workers halted the chain until the rival side sold its 50.5% stake for $1.5B.
Leer el casoMango Excellent Media: the state-backed streamer that stayed profitable against iQiyi
Hunan TV's small state-controlled streamer raised just RMB2 billion and stayed profitable while its giant private rivals raised billions and burned them.
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