Qatar Airways expanded through the pandemic and returned to profit
Qatar Airways kept building passenger and cargo networks during COVID and posted QAR 5.6bn profit in FY2021/22.
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2,000 PUBLISHED CASES · REGULARLY UPDATEDPSA corporatised Singapore's port and became a global operator
Singapore split port regulation from operations in 1997, letting PSA expand from a statutory board into a global terminal group.
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Pret's 2020 digital and subscription reset helped it reach £1.1B global system sales in 2023.
Read the casePfizer spun off Upjohn and became a focused biopharma company
Pfizer combined Upjohn with Mylan in 2020, leaving a sharper innovative-medicines company just as vaccines surged.
Read the casePepsiCo bought SodaStream and made reuse part of its beverage strategy
PepsiCo paid about $3.3B for SodaStream in 2018 and later scaled the brand to more than 45 countries.
Read the casePearson launched Pearson+ and rebuilt around direct student relationships
Pearson launched Pearson+ in 2021; sales rose 1% and adjusted operating profit rose 23% to GBP385M.
Read the casePayPal dropped Palm payments and followed eBay sellers into email
Confinity abandoned its clever PalmPilot product, focused on email payments, and became eBay's $1.5B payment backbone.
Read the casePalo Alto Networks turned security sprawl into a platform profit
Palo Alto pushed customers from point tools to platforms; FY2023 revenue rose 25% and GAAP net income turned positive.
Read the casePIL took Heliconia's rescue and sailed back to profit
Pacific International Lines completed a $600M restructuring in 2021, then earned US$3B in 2022.
Read the caseOn took a Swiss running shoe global instead of staying a niche local brand
On chose early global expansion and premium positioning, reaching CHF3.01B net sales by 2025.
Read the caseOcado turned its grocery know-how into a platform business
Ocado made Kroger its 2018 platform proof point; by 2023 Technology Solutions revenue grew 44% and EBITDA turned positive.
Read the caseNvidia opened GPUs to programmers and CUDA became its AI moat
Nvidia's 2006 CUDA bet turned graphics chips into a programmable compute platform for science, HPC and AI.
Read the caseNordstrom returned control to the family and rebuilt retail momentum
After a weak outsider run, Nordstrom brought Bruce and Blake Nordstrom back and turned faltering sales into a mid-2000s recovery.
Read the caseNintendo revived Mario at the movies by becoming a producer, not a licensor
Nintendo and Illumination made Mario a film brand again; the 2023 movie grossed $1.36B worldwide.
Read the caseNintendo reused failed Radar Scope cabinets and made Donkey Kong a breakout
Nintendo turned 2,000 unsold arcade cabinets into Donkey Kong machines, saving its tiny U.S. operation and launching a new growth path.
Read the caseNike ended a bad CEO fit and let Mark Parker scale innovation
Phil Knight's board replaced an outside CEO with Nike lifer Mark Parker, turning founder tension into a decade of growth.
Read the caseNext turned its retail machinery into a platform for other brands
Next launched Total Platform in 2020; by FY2024 the unit and related investments contributed £43m and were forecast at £77m.
Read the caseNetflix turned password sharing from leakage into paid growth
Netflix ended DVD-by-mail and charged for shared accounts; 2023 paid net additions rose to 29.5M.
Read the caseNaver's founder stepped back and made room for a platform-era CEO
In 2017 Lee Hae-jin left Naver's chair, Han Seong-sook became CEO, and the portal posted record profit while investing globally.
Read the caseMonster swapped side brands for Coca-Cola's global energy-drink reach
Monster gave Coke its non-energy drinks, took Coke energy brands, and scaled through Coke bottlers.
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