Snapdeal refused Flipkart's $950m buyout in 2017, shrank to profit and filed for an IPO
Rejecting a $950m Flipkart takeover in July 2017, Snapdeal sold Freecharge, cut costs, went cashflow positive by 2018 and filed a $166m IPO in 2021.
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2,000 CASOS PUBLICADOS · ACTUALIZADOS REGULARMENTEElliott's Crown Castle pressure forced a fiber review and an $8.5B fiber sale
Elliott's 2023 stake forced board changes and a fiber review; Crown Castle sold its fiber and small cells for $8.5B and became tower-only.
Leer el casoBarbe-Nicole Clicquot saved her family's champagne house after widowhood in 1805.
Widowed at 27 with a failing cellar, Barbe-Nicole Clicquot kept the maison going, invented the riddling table and made Veuve Clicquot a global brand.
Leer el casoEssilor and Luxottica's €46B merger made one eyewear giant — and one governance war
The 2017-2018 all-stock merger of lens maker and frame maker created a €46B eyewear giant — then the two camps fought a governance war
Leer el casoBritain floated BAA, owner of Heathrow, in 1987 after a tender that beat the fixed price.
BAA's July 1987 flotation raised about £1.2 billion; the tender drew bids at 283p, forcing a clawback of 125 million shares placed at 245p.
Leer el casoAbbott bet on cheap rapid COVID tests in 2020 and diagnostics sales doubled
Abbott launched BinaxNOW and Panbio rapid tests at scale; 2020 diagnostics sales rose 40% to $10.8B and total sales hit $34.6B.
Leer el casoSiemens' Vision 2020 cut the conglomerate to electricity, automation and digitalization
CEO Kaeser's 2014 Vision 2020 merged Siemens' 16 divisions into 9 around three axes; the 2018 Healthineers IPO raised €4.2B as proof
Leer el casoStarboard put $200M into Papa John's, took board control, and drove a record 2020
Starboard's 2019 preferred investment bought board control and a new chairman; Papa John's sales turned positive and hit records by 2020.
Leer el casoLogitech bet early on the work-from-home 'new normal' and sales hit $5.25bn
Logitech bet the pandemic shift to home work was permanent; fiscal 2021 sales rose 76% to a record $5.25bn.
Leer el casoAladdin's $635M bankruptcy sale turned the Strip resort into Planet Hollywood
The over-leveraged Aladdin filed Chapter 11 in 2001 and was sold in 2004 to a Planet Hollywood-led group for $635M, becoming a new brand.
Leer el casoKlarna cut costs and leaned on AI, turning a $1B 2022 loss into a 2024 profit
After a $1B loss in 2022, Klarna cut costs and credit losses and used AI, reaching its first full-year profit since 2018 in 2024.
Leer el casoFans funded a Veronica Mars movie on Kickstarter, reviving a canceled cult show
After the show was canceled in 2007, creator Rob Thomas raised $5.7 million from 91,000 backers in 2013; the movie came out in 2014.
Leer el casoJapan privatized the tobacco monopoly in 1985 and listed JT in 1994 despite a weak debut
Privatized in 1985 and floated in Tokyo in 1994, Japan Tobacco survived a weak IPO debut and bought its way to the world's third-largest tobacco group.
Leer el casoElliott's Phillips 66 campaign won cost cuts, asset sales, and two board seats
After Elliott's 2023 stake, Phillips 66 promised $3B of asset sales and cost cuts; Elliott then won two board seats pushing for a refining focus.
Leer el casoPiaggio spent €42M reviving Moto Guzzi and the V7 sold 7,000 units in four years
Piaggio revived the heritage marque with an investment in the retro V7, which became its best seller.
Leer el casoIndia gave GMR and GVK control of Delhi and Mumbai airports in 2006
India's 2006 airport PPP handed its two busiest gateways to GMR and GVK, with AAI keeping 26% — a privatization that rebuilt them into world-class hubs.
Leer el casoPershing's 11% stake pushed Fortune Brands to split into Beam and FBHS
After Ackman's Pershing Square became Fortune Brands' largest shareholder, the company split: spirits became Beam Inc. and home & security was spun off in 2011.
Leer el casoPost brought Oreo O's cereal back after 10 years and made nostalgia pay
Post relaunched the beloved 1990s cereal in June 2017 with a Walmart exclusive, and the licensed product helped lift its cereal sales.
Leer el casoCzechoslovakia sold Škoda to Volkswagen in 1991; it became the country's largest exporter
Picking Volkswagen over Renault in 1990 turned a state carmaker known for clunkers into a 500,000-vehicle-a-year exporter — the Czech Republic's biggest.
Leer el casoUBS moved its toxic assets into a central-bank bad bank — and bought them back in 2013
Switzerland parked up to $60bn of UBS's illiquid assets in an SNB fund the bank could buy back; UBS repaid the loan three years early and reclaimed the rump.
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