Pinduoduo: WeChat group-buying to a $240B IPO in three years — then Temu
From 2015 WeChat group-buying to a 2018 $240B Nasdaq IPO, billion-subsidies for brands (2019) and Temu (2022): revenue ¥394B by 2024.
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2,000 CASOS PUBLICADOS · ATUALIZADOS REGULARMENTELi Yunfeng took over Do-Fluoride from his father after a 20-year grooming
Li Shijiang, 76, handed Do-Fluoride to son Li Yunfeng in Dec 2025 as it swung to profit; Li Yunfeng had led the lithium-hexafluoride breakthrough.
Ler o casoCorning revived a shelved glass formula after the telecom bust gutted fiber demand
The telecom crash sank Corning's fiber business into billions in losses, so it pulled a scratch-resistant glass off the shelf and sold it as Gorilla Glass.
Ler o casoDollarama went public at the top of range in 2009 and repaid its debt
Dollarama priced its October 2009 IPO at C$17.50, raised about C$300M to repay buyout-era debt, and grew to C$1.86B sales by fiscal 2013.
Ler o casoMosacat turned a water complaint into a Google data-center suspension
After finding that Google's Santiago project could divert over 7 billion liters a year, Mosacat demonstrated and helped trigger a 2024 tribunal suspension.
Ler o casoVictoria's Secret traded Cultural-Wilderness agony for a 47% single-day pop
Hillary Super took over a brand in its cultural wilderness in 2024. Two years later sales jumped 15% — and the stock soared 47% in a single day.
Ler o casoThe Hinduja brothers fought over $11bn in court and the group never split
A fight over their 2014 shared-ownership letter reached the High Court in 2020 — mediation and the patriarch's death in 2023 closed it without a split.
Ler o casoBenelli's TRK 502 made a 1911 Italian brand Italy's top-selling motorcycle marque
Chinese owner Qianjiang kept design in Pesaro, built in China, and the TRK 502 made Benelli the No. 1 motorcycle brand in Italy by 2022.
Ler o casoNongfu Spring won China's bottle-water war by refusing to sell pure water
A 2000 'natural water vs pure water' gamble made Nongfu Spring China's bottled-water leader by 2012; the HK$446B 2020 IPO and ¥42.9B 2024 revenue followed.
Ler o casoWolfspeed shed 70% of its debt in Chapter 11 and kept its silicon carbide lead
Wolfspeed filed for Chapter 11 in 2025, cut debt ~70%, kept its 200mm silicon carbide footprint, and exited self-funded to serve AI, EV and energy markets.
Ler o casoBoeing shut down its own assembly lines for a month to fix a supply chain it had outrun
Boeing ramped production faster than suppliers could keep up, forcing a $1.6b charge and a month-long shutdown of two lines. It rebuilt around lean methods.
Ler o casoKorea's first chaebol proxy war: KCGI lost the board but won a 100% stake yield
Fund KCGI and allies took on the Cho family at Hanjin KAL, lost the March 2020 AGM vote, then exited their 17.41% stake to Hoban for ~₩690bn in 2022.
Ler o casoNazifi Isa Muhammad and Mubarak Muhammad changed their TikTok act after jail
After 11 days in jail over a satirical video, Kano creators Nazifi and Mubarak dropped political and religious topics and began cooperating with Hisbah.
Ler o casoWhite Rabbit turned a 1959 milk candy into a lifestyle brand via 2019 collabs
Guanshengyuan lent its 60-year-old White Rabbit candy to perfume, lip balm and milk tea collabs — and four-hour queues made the old brand young again.
Ler o casoMargiela: Rosso handed the anonymous house to a disgraced showman and doubled revenue
OTB hired John Galliano — exiled since his 2011 Dior firing — to lead Maison Margiela in 2014; in five years the cult label's revenues doubled to €200 million.
Ler o casoNintendo's $59.99 NES Classic mini-console sold 2.3M units in five months
Nintendo relaunched its 1985 NES as a mini-console with 30 games on Nov 11, 2016; it sold out, shipped 2.3M units by April 2017, and spawned the SNES Classic.
Ler o casoDeliveroo: from London's worst IPO flop to its first annual profit in 2024
After a disastrous 2021 IPO, Deliveroo CEO Will Shu quit loss-making markets and cut costs, delivering the company's first annual profit in 2024.
Ler o casoAMD bet its chips on high-performance Ryzen and turned losses into a 26% jump
Lisa Su cut AMD down to a high-performance CPU and GPU bet; Ryzen brought a 26% revenue jump and its first real profit in years.
Ler o casoMicron kept spending on new chip technology while memory prices collapsed around it
Memory chip prices crashed after the dot-com bust and Micron posted back-to-back losses. It bought a rival's DRAM plant and kept investing in newer chips.
Ler o casoMasraf Al Rayan absorbed al khaliji to become Qatar's second-largest bank
In a 2.5-million-person market served by some 20 lenders, Qatar's Islamic banks consolidated: a QAR 8.2bn share swap created a US$47bn-asset challenger
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