TIM Brasil buys back its fiber JV, conceding neutral networks 'lacked economics'
Five years after creating I-Systems with IHS to swap fiber capex for wholesale opex, TIM is taking control back — low occupancy killed the scale economics.
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TIM Brasil dropped Ericsson for Huawei and Nokia in its 5G network reshuffle
After 3G, 4G and first-phase 5G with Ericsson, TIM's bidding picked Huawei and Nokia to cut total cost of ownership — antennas are 60% of its network costs.
Read case7-Eleven Australia rebuilt payroll with biometrics and paid $176M in back wages
After the wage-theft scandal, 7-Eleven's operators back-paid $176.3M to 4,043 workers and installed biometric clock-in across all Australian stores.
Read casePorsche's 2035 plan: fewer cars, a pricier range, 9,000 job cuts to fix margins
Chairman Michael Leiters' 'Sportwagenschmiede 35' plan cuts break-even to under 200,000 cars, lifts prices 20% and sheds 9,000 jobs to fix margins.
Read caseNASA is converting 7,500 contractor jobs into civil-service posts to rebuild its core
Administrator Jared Isaacman's workforce initiative is in-housing 7,500 contract positions — undoing decades of outsourcing to rebuild core competencies.
Read caseMetro India pivoted to small stores and kiranas as Covid gutted hospitality demand
Metro's India wholesale arm dropped its football-field big-box formula: new stores shrink to a quarter the size and kiranas replace hotels as the core customer.
Read caseLenskart's capex decade paid off: profit surged 70X as scale finally kicked in
After two decades of capex-heavy bets, Lenskart's profit surged 70X YoY to ₹132.7 Cr as operating leverage, premiumisation and vertical integration paid off.
Read caseHero FinCorp rebuilt lending around AI context — credit costs fell 15% in six months
The lender's Project Dhruv Tara reads 100+ micro-market signals per borrower; company-reported credit costs fell 15% and GNPA improved about 20% in H2 FY26.
Read caseGPA pushed its 300-store Pão de Açúcar expansion back to 2026 and closed weak stores
Eleven underperforming stores shut in late 2023 and the 300-store plan's deadline slipped from 2024 to 2026, as GPA's margins turned.
Read caseGPA exited hypermarkets: 71 Extra stores sold to Assaí for R$5.2 billion
GPA split its 103 Extra hypermarkets — 71 to Assaí, 28 converted to its supermarket banners — and refocused as atacarejo ate the format.
Read caseClarivate sells its Life Sciences & Healthcare unit for $600M to refocus on IP data
Clarivate completed the $600M sale of its Life Sciences & Healthcare segment to Altaris to concentrate on Academia & Government and Intellectual Property.
Read caseStarbucks Australia's first-ever profit, 23 years in, on Gen Z's iced coffee habit
Sold to the Withers Group in 2014 after a $143M collapse, the Australian arm logged its first profit in FY2023 — $3.15M on revenue up 35% to $157.3M.
Read caseInditex closed more stores than it opened in Q4 2017, calling each one an 'absorption'
Its substitution programme shut 341 stores in FY2017 — Q4's balance was negative for the first time — while selling area grew 7% and online sales jumped 41%.
Read caseToys R Us Asia broke from its bankrupt US parent and doubled down on growth
Note holders took 79% of the Asian business, Fung Retailing kept the rest, and the operator locked the brand licence for 20+ years while ramping stores and IT.
Read caseMcDonald's ended a six-year JV battle in India, taking full control of CPRL
McDonald's bought out Vikram Bakshi's half of Connaught Plaza Restaurants, temporarily closed 165 outlets and set them reopening within about two weeks.
Read caseItaú CorpBanca pushed Colombia digital: 9% to 81% of loans sold by app
After the 2016 merger, the bank migrated CorpBanca Colombia to the Itaú brand and rebuilt around digital channels, targeting breakeven there in 2018.
Read caseCarrefour Brasil sold 21 of its 26 remaining supermarkets to Grupo Pereira for R$360m
Three years of pruning Brazilian formats ended with Carrefour handing its neighbourhood supermarkets to a rival and keeping cash-and-carry as the engine.
Read caseAditya Birla Retail sold its More grocery chain to Samara Capital for Rs 4,300 crore
India's Aditya Birla Group stopped funding its money-losing supermarket chain More and sold it to Samara Capital, refocusing retail on apparel.
Read caseWalmart Brasil became Grupo Big and retired the Walmart name to cut costs
Advent's restructure kills the Walmart brand across 127 hypermarkets, ends a 0.7%-of-sales royalty, and targets break-even by early 2021.
Read caseSpencer's cut Nature's Basket's quarterly loss from Rs 37 crore to Rs 5 crore
Bought for a $40m enterprise value in 2019, the gourmet chain swung gross margin from -24.3% to +8.2% and strung together three positive-EBITDA quarters.
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