Lyft bet on docked bikeshare instead of selling — restructured for a $20M-a-year lift
A year after weighing a sale of micromobility, Lyft merged PBSC and eight city systems into Lyft Urban Solutions.
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300 CAS RÉCENTS · MISES À JOUR RÉGULIÈRESJio withdrew its Rs 19 and Rs 52 packs, making Rs 98 the floor for 350M users
To stop ARPU sliding — Rs 156 to Rs 120 in a year — Jio killed its low-value recharges, following Airtel and Vodafone Idea's minimum-recharge route.
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An early pivot from parents-only rides to school district contracts carried HopSkipDrive to 16,000 schools, 1 million rides and a $37M Series D by 2022.
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After a failed funding round, layoffs and a closed factory, Dan Shapiro and Mark Gosselin bid their own savings to relaunch Glowforge lean.
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The new CEO handed Movantik back to AstraZeneca, scrapped opioid licensing deals and cut 68 pain sales jobs — trading a tainted market for cancer drugs.
Lire le casClimeworks ended beverage CO2 sales and pivoted to burying carbon permanently underground
In 2022 Climeworks completed the commercial phase of its pioneering Hinwil plant, phasing out first-generation tech to focus on permanent CO2 storage.
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From January 2022, Capital One scrapped all consumer overdraft and NSF fees, walking away from an estimated $150 million a year in revenue.
Lire le casBigBasket founder-CEO hands over to an Amazon veteran to finish its quick-commerce pivot
Hari Menon stepped down after 15 years as BigBasket fully pivoted to quick commerce; FY25 turnover fell 3% and losses widened to Rs 1,851 crore.
Lire le casBajaj Allianz moved service fully remote in lockdown — grievances fell 90% (interview)
In an ETBFSI interview, operations head KV Dipu said lockdown digital pivots cut grievances to a tenth and pushed 80% of servicing onto digital channels.
Lire le casAIG rebuilt underwriting and handed 6,000 staff to Accenture to escape its post-2008 rut
Zaffino found underwriters' names weren't even linked to policies; the fix ran through a 6,000-employee transfer to Accenture and a new tech core.
Lire le casAhold Delhaize kept its $480M supply-chain insourcing on schedule through the pandemic
Rolled out in 2019, the $480M program moved Ahold's US banners off distributor C&S onto self-distribution, on schedule through 2020's demand surge.
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WestJet squeezed an extra row into 737s, drew a viral TikTok pile-on and softening sales, then cancelled the rollout and refits to a 174-seat, 30-inch layout.
Lire le casUniqlo Korea closed 60 stores and pivoted online — back to ₩52.9B profit
After the 2019 boycott and Covid gutted traffic, Uniqlo shut a third of its Korean stores, pushed Heattech and AIRism sales online, and returned to profit.
Lire le casTilray paid £33m for BrewDog in administration — its £3 Punk IPA promo doubled sales
Six months after buying BrewDog out of administration, Tilray has pumped in $50m-$60m — and early promotion data shows sales doubling year on year.
Lire le casSubway modernized a stale menu and built missing tech ahead of its $10B sale (interview)
In a Fortune interview, CEO John Chidsey describes modernizing a chain that had closed a quarter of its US stores; digital's sales share quadrupled.
Lire le casMorinaga Milk brought back the original Lipton Milk Tea after a record 667 complaints
Morinaga replaced its 33-year-old Lipton Milk Tea with a premium Royal version; a record 667 complaints brought the original back within a year.
Lire le casLotte sold Burger King Japan at a loss after eight years of ₩10bn-a-year red ink
Nine years after taking on Burger King Japan with ₩20bn of debt, Lotte GRS sold out to Affinity Equity Partners for about ₩10bn.
Lire le casOrchestra PE bought KFC Korea for ₩70bn and sold it to Carlyle at ₩200bn
Two years of structural fixes and cost cuts lifted sales 17% and set a revenue record — enough for a reported three-times exit to Carlyle.
Lire le casFarmley walked away from a ₹350 Cr B2B nuts business to become a D2C snack brand
Thin B2B margins and zero pricing power pushed the dry-fruits supplier to pivot in 2021; by FY25 it claimed INR 370 Cr revenue and a $40M Series C.
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Two-thirds of Mon Super Voisin's requests were post-purchase help, so Dealt rebuilt itself as a white-label services platform for retailers — and raised €6M.
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