DFI's Singapore supermarkets turned profitable in 2024 after a cull and re-siting
DFI shut Giant and Cold Storage stores in estates where they no longer fit, reopened in better spots and curated house brands — and returned to the black.
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CommBank reversed its refusal and will refund $68m in fees to low-income customers
Five months after refusing to refund any of $270m in wrongly charged fees, Commonwealth Bank agreed to pay $68m back to concession customers.
Read caseCasas Bahia closed 38 stores — and 40-60% of their demand moved next door
The Brazilian retailer shut 38 stores, reworked five distribution centres and refocused on core categories while cash generation recovered.
Read caseCarrefour retreats to France, Spain and Brazil with €1B yearly cost cuts to 2030
After Italy and Romania exits, Bompard's third plan targets 25% share in France, 20% in Brazil, €5B cash flow by 2028 — and €100M a year on AI.
Read caseIllawarra Hawks won back their name by hitting the NBL's 4,378-member target
The NBL stripped Illawarra from the Hawks' name after the club was sold; a member-and-sponsor drive hit 4,379 against a 4,378 target and the name came back.
Read caseAPL Cargo quit its legacy TMS and freed six figures and half its dispatch work
The longhaul carrier left McLeod's legacy platform for Datatruck, preserving five years of data, cutting manual dispatch work by over 50% and saving $100K-plus.
Read caseTwitter sold MoPub to AppLovin for $1.05B to refocus on its own ads
Twitter completed the $1.05B cash sale of ad platform MoPub in Jan 2022 — 5.6x its $188M 2020 revenue — to concentrate on performance ads, SMB and commerce.
Read caseOwler paid fraudsters $200K, rebuilt its crowdsourced data model, sold for $24.5M
In a Fortune essay, founder Tim Harsch recounts Reddit users gaming Owler's paid crowdsourcing weeks after a $19.3M raise, and the $24.5M exit that followed.
Read caseAtlantic Union sold $2B of CRE loans to Blackstone after Sandy Spring merger
The Virginia bank closed the sale of about $2 billion of performing CRE loans at low-90s percent of par to cut concentration after its 2025 merger.
Read caseSonalight's founders killed their app to build $1.35B analytics firm Amplitude (interview)
In a CNBC interview, CEO Spenser Skates describes shutting Sonalight (500K downloads, weak retention) to build Amplitude, now a $1.35B public company.
Read caseNew World sold the Pentahotel for US$257M racing to shed HK$10B of assets
The Cheng family developer is selling non-core assets into a rate spike and property slump — the 695-room Kowloon hotel went for HK$2 billion.
Read caseKraft Heinz gave Maxwell House its first new product in a decade — and share gains
A new coffee chief revived the 131-year-old brand with instant iced lattes and IHOP lines, delivering its first market-share gain since 2016.
Read caseBumble cut 30% of staff to refocus on product as Wolfe Herd returned as CEO
Newly reinstated CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd cut 240 roles for a leaner, product-first company — $40M in annual savings and a raised revenue forecast.
Read caseZigly cut SKUs and scaled back online, narrowing losses by Rs 1 crore a month
Cosmo First's pet-care brand Zigly consolidated to 3,500 SKUs, leaned on vet services and offline stores, and says its marketplaces turned profitable.
Read caseYum! Brands put 63,000 restaurants on one tech platform and cut stockouts 85%
Yum's tech chief Jim Dausch is folding up to 30 per-restaurant software vendors into the Byte platform; inventory automation cut stockouts 85%.
Read caseHBO Max pulled 36 low-viewership titles ahead of the Discovery+ merger to cut costs
Warner Bros. Discovery pulled 36 kids and reality titles from HBO Max before the 2023 Discovery+ combination, stopping residual payments and clutter.
Read caseVuori's CEO quit his job, pivoted to e-commerce, and built a $4 billion brand
After two failed side-hustle brands, Joe Kudla went all in on Vuori and switched from gyms and yoga studios to e-commerce and social ads.
Read caseUlta's Project SOAR ERP overhaul gave 1,400 stores real-time inventory, finishing in 2025
Ulta Beauty completed Project SOAR, replacing legacy SAP across seven DCs and 1,400+ stores for real-time inventory — its biggest IT overhaul ever.
Read caseTrue Classic bet $40M on 2021 inventory, nearly died, rebuilt to $250M pace (interview)
CNBC Make It interview: CEO Ryan Bartlett recounts the $40M over-order that nearly killed the T-shirt brand and the methodical rebuild to a $250M revenue year.
Read caseThe League founder sold her dating app to Match Group for a reported $29.9M (interview)
Amanda Bradford sold her invite-only dating app to Match Group in 2022 for a reported $29.9M, trading ownership for safety, autonomy and a marketing budget.
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