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LVMH spent €750M and 16 years restoring the shuttered 1870 Paris department store, reopening La Samaritaine as an experiential luxury flagship in June 2021.
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The family behind Fevicol let ex-Cadbury chief Bharat Puri take the managing director's job — the first non-Parekh to run the adhesive maker.
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Offshore driller Noble emerged from its 2020 bankruptcy lean and liquid, then consolidated rivals until it ran a 41-rig fleet with a $6.5B backlog.
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After Suharto erased Chinese-Indonesian names, Huihan Lie built My China Roots to digitize genealogy books, letting diaspora reclaim heritage via family trees.
Lire le casIndia's first PSU privatisation sold Modern Food to Hindustan Lever for Rs 1.05bn in 2000
In 2000 the Government of India sold 74% of its loss-making bread maker Modern Food to Hindustan Lever — the country's first outright privatisation.
Lire le casMicrosoft unveiled Azure in the 2008 crash and rebuilt itself around cloud
Ozzie's 2005 services memo led to Azure, unveiled as the 2008 crisis hit; under Nadella the cloud bet drove Microsoft shares to 15-year highs.
Lire le casLanvin 2001: Wang buys dormant couture house, bets on Alber Elbaz, revives luxury icon
Shaw-Lan Wang bought France's oldest fashion house from L'Oréal in 2001 and gave Alber Elbaz creative control; he rebuilt it into a coveted luxury brand.
Lire le casCat Rock fought to free Just Eat from Grubhub; the drag ended in a €4.1B sale
An activist demanded a Grubhub exit in 2021; three years of resistance ended with a $650M sale and a 63%-premium buyout of the refocused company.
Lire le casJulphar survived recalls and a Saudi export ban to return to profit in 2021
Product recalls and a Saudi ban drove Julphar into losses; new leadership, a capital reset and a pharmacy acquisition brought a AED63.9m profit in 2021.
Lire le casSK rebuilt Vietnam's Imexpharm around EU-GMP lines, then sold it to Livzon for double
SK bought 24.9% of a stagnant Vietnamese generics maker in 2020, rebuilt it around EU-GMP production, and exited in 2026 at roughly twice its $100M investment.
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Hawaya built an Islamic‑compliant dating app with modest photos, age ≥ 21, guardian oversight, reaching 1M downloads and 25 staff in three years.
Lire le casHarley-Davidson 1981: 13 executives buy the brand back from AMF for $81.5M
With AMF ready to abandon a quality-wrecked Harley, Vaughn Beals led 13 managers in a leveraged buyout that saved America's last motorcycle maker.
Lire le casGVK sold its crown jewel Mumbai airport to Adani in 2021 to escape a debt trap
Debt-laden GVK handed control of Mumbai airport to Adani in 2021 and repaid lenders instead of defaulting.
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Lire le casGol shed R$21bn of net debt via Chapter 11 and emerged in 17 months
Filing Chapter 11 in January 2024, Gol restructured R$21.16bn of net debt, raised $1.9bn of exit financing, and emerged in June 2025 with ~$900m liquidity.
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