Analjit Singh split the Max Group in three and stepped off the board
India's Max Group split into three listed companies so the life insurer no longer carried a conglomerate discount — and its founder stepped back.
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2,000 PUBLISHED CASES · REGULARLY UPDATEDAmerican Greetings brought Holly Hobbie out of retirement to catch the retro wave
American Greetings revived its first licensed character after 30 years to tap nostalgia and fix slumping card sales
Read the caseZoho's founder hands the CEO seat to a co-founder and returns to research
Sridhar Vembu stepped down as Zoho's CEO in January 2025, made co-founder Shailesh Kumar Davey group CEO, and took the chief scientist role himself.
Read the caseGeneral Mills brought French Toast Crunch back after a decade of fan campaigns
After thousands of petition signatures and years of Twitter pleas, General Mills revived the 1990s maple cereal permanently in December 2014.
Read the caseAgility sold its freight arm GIL to DSV for shares, not cash, and kept the upside
Kuwait's Agility traded its $4.6bn-revenue logistics unit for ~8% of DSV, helped build the world's No.3 forwarder, and rebuilt itself around aviation and parks.
Read the caseNvidia answered the crypto bust by pushing data-center AI and posted record revenue
Nvidia answered a crashed crypto GPU market by pushing data-center AI computing; Q4 FY20 data-center revenue hit a record $968M.
Read the caseGrab built KartaCam to map the alleys its drivers use in Jakarta
Grab built an in-house camera backpack and paid drivers to map the streets and alleys that determine whether pickups and drop-offs run on time.
Read the casestc sold 51% of its tower company TAWAL to PIF at a $5.85bn valuation
Saudi Telecom carved out its 16,000-tower estate, grew it into Europe and Pakistan, then sold control to PIF — creating the Gulf's largest tower company.
Read the caseSwatch revived itself in 2022 by selling a $260 bioceramic Omega Speedmaster
The MoonSwatch put Omega's Moonwatch design on a $260 Swatch and sold over a million in year one, pulling Swatch Group to record sales.
Read the caseSixt: Erich Sixt handed the wheel to his sons in 2021 and revenue passed €4B
Erich Sixt handed co-CEO seats to his sons in June 2021; Alexander and Konstantin grew revenue from roughly €3B in the crisis year to over €4B by 2024.
Read the caseMattel relaunched View-Master as a smartphone VR headset in 2015
The 76-year-old stereoscope brand came back as a $30 Google Cardboard viewer, and Mattel shipped an improved version a year later.
Read the caseMINISO turned a Chinese ten-yuan store into a global IP-led retailer
A ten-yuan store turned design-led global retail: $608M NYSE IPO (2020), HK dual listing, IP lifts gross margin to 44.9%, 7,780 stores by end-2024.
Read the caseElliott's 6.5% stake pushed Akamai to cut costs, buy back stock, and chase margins
Elliott's 6.5% stake aligned Akamai on margins, security and a $750M buyback; the stock rose and JPMorgan upgraded it.
Read the caseApsuja Infratech built a 3D-printed temple in three months
Apsuja Infratech and Simpliforge chose a temple to prove a construction printer could handle intricate, scripture-constrained architecture in three months.
Read the caseSABB folded RBS-backed Alawwal into HSBC-linked SAB, Saudi Arabia's third-largest bank
The first big Saudi bank merger in two decades, announced 2018 and completed 2021; the merged SAB still earns over $1bn of net profit every six months
Read the caseGoyard slept 50 years; Signoles revived it in 1998 by refusing marketing
A collector bought the dormant trunk maker in 1998 and rebuilt it into a cult luxury house by banning advertising, e-commerce and mass production.
Read the caseSouthwest Airlines refused post-9/11 layoffs and kept the no-layoff record 24 more years
When 9/11 cost US airlines ~81k jobs, Southwest cut plane purchases and HQ plans but not people; no mass layoffs followed for 24 more years.
Read the caseFerrero relaunched Butterfinger with a new recipe and turned falling sales around
After buying Nestlé's US candy for $2.8 billion, Ferrero relaunched Butterfinger in 2019 with a new recipe; sales rose 17.7% in four weeks.
Read the caseRevel's $2.4B failure was reborn as Ocean Casino Resort, which posted $117M profit in 2023
Revel closed in 2014 after two bankruptcies and no profit; bought for $82M, relaunched in 2018 as mass-market Ocean Casino Resort, it earned $117.2M in 2023.
Read the caseInfosys CEO put digital and cloud first and took it from a founder feud to growth
Salil Parekh's three-year plan stabilized Infosys and pushed digital to 47% of revenue, re-accelerating growth.
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