Mercadona answered Spain's crash with fewer products at lower prices — and won a decade
Already Spain's biggest chain by 2008, Mercadona cut 800 SKUs, dropped prices ~10% in four months, and rode the crisis from 22% to 28% share.
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Powerchip lost to collapsing DRAM prices and was delisted in 2012; it pivoted to foundry work and relisted as PSMC in 2021 at a profit
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Telekom Malaysia was corporatised in 1987 and listed on the KLSE in 1990, a first for the country
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Nationalised after a €20.8bn bailout, AIB IPO'd in June 2017 at €4.40; phased sell-downs cut the state's stake from 71% to zero by June 2025.
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After years of bans and court fights, ByteDance accepted a majority-American TikTok structure with Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX to preserve U.S. access.
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After 90s collapse, canvas shoe returned via French hype, e-commerce, 国潮 to sell 20M+ pairs
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Edward Rogers outmanoeuvred his mother and sisters to oust the telecom's CEO, won a court fight, and by 2024 was executive chair with his pick as CEO.
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After licensed AtGames plug-and-plays flopped, Sega built the Genesis Mini itself; it sold over 1.5M units and sold out at launch.
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Rp150M and 2017 Jakarta kiosks selling palm-sugar milk coffee became a $109M Series B (2020), a >$1B unicorn (2021), 1,351 stores across 7 markets by mid-2026.
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Morris Chang founded TSMC in 1987 as a dedicated silicon foundry, mostly state-funded; it became the world's largest contract chipmaker.
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In July 2020 TSMC lifted capex to $16-17B during the pandemic, betting on 5G and HPC; Q2 profit surged 81% and 2020 revenue grew over 20%.
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US fund Steel Partners launched a ¥1,584 tender for the condiment maker; shareholders backed a poison pill, and three courts rejected the fund's challenge.
Read the case23andMe turned an FDA shutdown into approved consumer genetic testing
After the FDA halted its health tests, 23andMe worked through the regulator, won approval for 10 disease tests, and broadened into therapeutics research.
Read the caseBabycham: the Showering family bought their sparkling perry back and relaunched it
Sold 144m bottles a year in 1977, then faded under corporate owners; in 2021 the founder's grandsons bought the brand back and returned production home.
Read the caseThe Hamieds let professionals run Cipla — and then let them hand it on
The family that built Cipla in 1935 gave the managing director's job to a non-family executive in 2016, then watched him pass it to his own deputy in 2026.
Read the caseMattel revived Monster High in 2022 and made it the No. 1 doll relaunch
Mattel relaunched its shelved Monster High doll line in 2022 with new media; it became the No. 1 relaunch property in dolls and helped lift doll billings.
Read the caseGaleries Lafayette: the founder's heirs shrank the store estate to survive COVID
Nicolas Houzé, fifth-generation head of Galeries Lafayette, franchised provincial stores and cut staff to keep the 1893 family group alive through 2020.
Read the caseElliott's $1B push split Western Digital into hard drives and SanDisk
Elliott wrote in 2022 that mixing HDD and flash destroyed value and forecast $100+ shares; Western Digital separated SanDisk in February 2025.
Read the caseSkyworks bought Axiom in 2009 to grab the coming smartphone chips, not cut
During the downturn Skyworks bought Axiom Microdevices and leaned into mobile chips, becoming a top post-2008 performer.
Read the caseDubai World: the $23.5bn standstill that froze markets and got restructured
Dubai's state holding asked lenders to freeze its debts in 2009, rattled world markets, and settled in 2010 with $8.9bn of government debt turned equity.
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