How black-market SIM cards turned Zimbabwe’s Chimanimani into a remote‑work hub
Traders brought cheap Mozambican SIMs to Chimanimani, providing affordable internet that sparked a remote‑work hub and stopped brain drain.
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2,000 PUBLISHED CASES · REGULARLY UPDATEDCatalog Raises $1.5M To Help SMBs Create Content
Seeing SMBs struggle with costly content creation at Google, Ip and Lumbreras founded Catalog to offer affordable on‑demand photo services, raising $1.5M seed.
Read the caseCapella Space shifts to low-cost commercial satellites after $19M Series B
Capella Space decided to miniaturize its radar satellites and sell hourly Earth imagery commercially, raising $19M Series B to fund the shift.
Read the caseØrsted’s shift from fossil fuels to world-leading offshore wind
How Ørsted turned from a fossil‑fuel utility into the world’s top offshore wind developer by leveraging existing capabilities.
Read the caseMalaysia made its new nomad visa responsive after applicant complaints
MDEC acknowledged a confusing launch, revised DE Rantau within weeks, and paired the fixes with a low-threshold one-year visa.
Read the caseWilliams-Sonoma turned lockdown demand into a record 2020 and doubled profit
With stores shut, Williams-Sonoma's decade of e-commerce investment collected the demand: FY2020 revenue rose 15% to $6.78B and operating margin hit 13.4%.
Read the caseTransDigm borrowed into the 2020 aerospace collapse and flew out at record scale
As COVID grounded airliners, TransDigm raised $1.5B of fixed-rate notes plus a $200M revolver draw, held $5.2B of liquidity, and set records.
Read the caseThai Airways' court rehab ended with its shares up 216% on relisting
Thailand's flag carrier entered court-supervised restructuring in 2020 with billions in debt, halved itself — and relisted in 2025 to a 216% share surge.
Read the caseKG Group bought SsangYong out of receivership and relaunched it as KG Mobility
After Mahindra pulled funding, a KRW950bn KG Group rescue paid creditors 14 percent in cash and rebuilt the SUV maker around EVs under a new name.
Read the caseRossmann: Germany's drugstore founder stepped back at 75 with no public feud
Dirk Rossmann handed the 1972 chain to his 36-year-old son Raoul in 2021, six years after the heir entered management and with the family shares long sorted.
Read the caseRenault shrank 15,000 jobs and 700,000 cars of capacity, then hit a record margin
Reeling from Covid and a €7.3bn half-year loss, Renault's new CEO shrank the company hard — and hit a record 7.9% operating margin in 2023.
Read the casePuma 1989: the Dassler family sells out, and a 29-year-old saves the cat
Eight years of losses after the 1986 listing left the founders' sons little choice: they gave up control, and an outsider repositioned Puma as a fashion brand.
Read the casePhilippines sold state geothermal giant PNOC-EDC in 2007 for P58.5bn to the Lopezes
After a P14.4bn IPO at P3.20 a share, Manila auctioned its last 60% of the geothermal producer; the Lopez consortium paid P58.5bn, beating an AES-backed rival.
Read the caseMario Lemieux converted deferred salary into the Penguins and rebuilt a champion
With the franchise broke in Chapter 11, its retired star swapped unpaid salary for ownership, then delivered three Stanley Cups and an $845 million valuation.
Read the caseA New England freight railroad wore the Pan Am name for 16 years, then sold to CSX
Guilford bought the defunct Pan Am identity in 1998 and rebranded its regional railroad with aviation's most glamorous name; CSX bought the system in 2022.
Read the caseOtis listed in the worst week of 2020 and let its service annuity carry it through
Otis listed on April 3, 2020 as markets collapsed, but had priced $5.3B of notes pre-crash; its 2M-unit service base carried it to record 2021 sales.
Read the caseClaudio Castiglioni bought the dead MV Agusta name and revived it with the F4
Cagiva's Castiglioni bought the liquidated MV Agusta marque in 1992 and relaunched it five years later with a Tamburini halo superbike.
Read the caseMovida shrank its fleet through Brazil's rate shock and returned to a R$305M profit
Crushed by interest costs and sliding used-car values, Brazil's Movida cut fleet, sold cars to pay down debt and repriced rentals, returning to profit in 2024.
Read the caseMexico reversed its EV stance and attracted a manufacturing wave
After policy threatened its green transition, Mexico made EV production a public priority and attracted BMW, GM, Ford, Jetour and Tesla projects.
Read the caseMetromedia Fiber emerged from Chapter 11 as AboveNet and sold to Zayo for $84 a share
The bubble-era fiber builder defaulted on Verizon's debentures, wiped its debts in Chapter 11, rebuilt as AboveNet and a decade later fetched $84 a share.
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