Starlink turns Zimbabwe’s broken broadband into a four-week sellout
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2,000 PUBLISHED CASES · REGULARLY UPDATEDHinduja's IIHL paid ₹9,861 crore for Reliance Capital, lifting lender recovery to 65%
Referred to NCLT by RBI in 2021, Reliance Capital ended with IIHL's ₹9,661-crore plan approved in 2024 and lenders recovering 65% of secured debt.
Read the caseVail launched a cheap multi-resort Epic Pass in 2008 and rewired ski economics
In the 2008 downturn Vail launched one cheap multi-resort pass; the Epic Pass made it the industry's dominant consolidator.
Read the caseAn outside CEO bridged Ganong's 2008 crisis, then Bryana Ganong took over in 2014.
After two years of losses, the Ganongs hired a Coca-Cola veteran as bridge CEO; the board then promoted Bryana in 2014 and the candy maker kept growing.
Read the caseRinaldo Piaggio's sons rebuilt their war-bombed factory and invented the Vespa
After WWII wrecked Piaggio's Pontedera aircraft plant, Rinaldo's sons Enrico and Armando pivoted to personal mobility and launched the Vespa in 1946.
Read the caseHMM's turnaround from creditor control to record profits
After nine loss years and 2016 creditor control, HMM rebuilt with ultra-large ships and alliance membership; 2021 operating profit hit ₩7.38T.
Read the caseMicrosoft doubled down on Teams and Yammer as Slack challenged Office
As Windows stalled, Microsoft bundled cloud productivity into Microsoft 365 and backed Teams and Yammer; Teams reached 200,000 organizations in 2018.
Read the caseRolls-Royce's 1987 float was massively oversubscribed; it became the #2 aero-engine maker
The UK sold Rolls-Royce at £1.70 a share in 1987 to over a million investors; it grew into the world's number two aero-engine maker.
Read the casePabst Blue Ribbon, near-dead in 2001, was revived on word of mouth alone.
With almost no ad budget, Ted Wright's Fizz swapped paid ads for word of mouth; PBR grew a combined 55% by 2006 after 23 straight years of decline.
Read the caseBrembo's Bombassei handed the chair to his son-in-law and kept an outside CEO in 2021
Alberto Bombassei stepped back from Brembo's chair after six decades; Matteo Tiraboschi took over as executive chairman with Daniele Schillaci as CEO.
Read the casePanasonic revived its Technics hi-fi brand in 2014 after six years.
Panasonic relaunched the Technics audio brand at IFA 2014, returning a DJ favourite to the premium hi-fi market as vinyl rebounded.
Read the caseSalini's second generation took over in 1964 and turned a family builder into Webuild
After his father's death in 1964, Simonpietro Salini went global; the group reached €10B revenue as Webuild in 2023.
Read the caseG42 cut Chinese tech ties to win access to advanced U.S. AI chips
G42 severed Huawei ties and divested from ByteDance, winning U.S. approval for 35,000 Blackwell-equivalent chips and a role in Stargate UAE.
Read the caseChina Life's 2003 dual listing was the year's biggest IPO and reformed a state insurer
Created by restructuring a state-owned insurer, China Life raised about $3 billion in New York and Hong Kong in 2003 — the world's largest IPO that year.
Read the caseHelloFresh scaled into the 2020 lockdown meal-kit boom while Blue Apron stumbled
As lockdowns shuttered restaurants, HelloFresh raised revenue guidance repeatedly and left struggling rival Blue Apron behind.
Read the caseSoroban's letter forced Union Pacific's CEO out; Jim Vena took over
After Soroban Capital publicly demanded new leadership, Union Pacific CEO Lance Fritz agreed to step down and Jim Vena was named CEO, sending shares up 10%.
Read the caseActivision's Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy remake sold 10 million units
Activision revived the dormant PlayStation mascot with a 2017 remake of the first three games; it sold over 10 million units in under two years.
Read the caseReader's Digest: a $2.4bn LBO ended in two bankruptcies and a video-era rebirth
The 87-year-old Reader's Digest was wrecked by its 2007 buyout, went bankrupt twice, cut debt to $100m, and returned as video-led Trusted Media Brands.
Read the caseWanchain turned fragmented financial databases into a $36M ICO
Wanchain answered slow, costly financial data silos with a private cross-chain platform, then raised about $36M in one of 2017's largest ICOs.
Read the caseChiquita cut $700M in a 2002 prepack, rebuilt the banana brand, sold for $1.3B in 2015
Chiquita's pre-negotiated Chapter 11 slashed debt from $950M to $250M in four months; the rebuilt fruit giant was sold to Cutrale-Safra for $1.3B.
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