Pivots, reinventions and changes that made a meaningful difference.
The full archive, in the appAfter its MD died and its EPC arm burned cash, the Bajajs picked outsider Anuj Poddar, who killed vanity orders, cut debt to zero and doubled the market cap.
Read the caseA partisan's widow listed Milan's Amplifon in 2001, daughter Susan took the chair in 2011, and in 2025 the third Holland generation joined the board.
Read the caseKazakhstan's flag-carrier JV with BAE Systems raised $370m in a February 2024 IPO on London, Astana and KASE; 29,000 Kazakh retail orders chased the deal.
Read the caseMotoya Okada, 46, took over when scandal felled JUSCO's banker president, built Japan's largest retailer in 23 years, then handed the job to a non-family pro.
Read the caseWith Vivendi's 60% stake overhanging the market, Kotick's team paid $8.2 billion for independence at $13.60 a share; Microsoft paid $95.00 in 2023.
Read the caseFirst to shut dining rooms and last to reopen, Wingstop rode 32% same-store growth and a 64% digital mix through 2020 while sit-down rivals bled.
Read the caseJohn Timpson led a £42m buyback of his great-grandfather's shoe chain in 1983, then sold the shops that didn't work — and built Britain's top service retailer.
Read the caseWhile Macy's and Kohl's closed stores and lost sales, Target kept its doors and curbside lanes open - and took about $9 billion of market share in 2020.
Read the caseThe 'World's Largest Dairy Store' founder was charged in a $17M tax fraud; his son took the CEO seat in 1991 and the family chain kept growing.
Read the caseGarena's Free Fire printed $3.2B in 2020 while Sea poured it into Shopee's land grab - orders up 130%, Lazada overtaken, and the region's highest valuation.
Read the caseOman's Renaissance Services cashed out of offshore vessels at $1.079bn as the oil bust ended; its remaining business was 188% more profitable a year later.
Read the caseAfter 20.6M tonnes of tailings escaped its Padcal mine, Philex paid the Philippines' largest mining fine in full and cooperated its way to a quick restart.
Read the caseDubai's oldest private bank closed two-thirds of its branches at the pandemic's worst moment; by 2025 it earned Dh2.1bn a quarter at 29% cost-to-income.
Read the caseZachert's 2014 realignment cut costs, shed rubber and bought Chemtura; by 2018 Lanxess was a pure specialty chemicals firm with record earnings.
Read the caseStill profitable through the 2008-09 shipping crash, Kirby used its intact balance sheet to buy coastal rival K-Sea for $603.4M and go national.
Read the caseWith $460M from selling Kinh Do's confectionery to Mondelez, Vietnam's Kido reinvented itself, winning 65% of oil maker Tuong An and moving on Vocarimex.
Read the caseWhile LVMH and Kering lost 16% in 2020, Hermès fell 6%, then grew 42% in 2021 - the reward for refusing discounts and keeping its artisans at work.
Read the caseQatar's biggest listed services group went from near-zero earnings to QR711m profit by repricing rigs, restarting idle assets and refinancing its driller.
Read the caseA decade after its projects froze, GFH rebuilt around fund management, treasury and a taken-over bank - then won Euromoney's regional private-credit award.
Read the caseWanda Ferragamo's six children brought in professional Michele Norsa in 2006; ten years of retail expansion ended in a Milan IPO and €1.43 billion in revenue.
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