Top Gear: axed in 2001, Wilman's 2002 studio relaunch built a £50m-a-year BBC brand
After the old car show was axed, Andy Wilman and Jeremy Clarkson reinvented Top Gear as a live-audience studio format — the BBC's biggest export.
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2,000 CASOS PUBLICADOS · ATUALIZADOS REGULARMENTEJapan's 7-Eleven out-ran its own US parent — then bought it out of bankruptcy
Licensed in 1973, 7-Eleven Japan mastered franchise and item-level data, bought its bankrupt US parent (1991), and became the world's biggest convenience chain.
Ler o casoMoonshot AI opened Kimi to build a paid open-source business
Moonshot AI gave away Kimi’s model while keeping infrastructure and subscriptions as the paid layer, turning openness into reach and demand.
Ler o casoShriram: founder vested his group in an ownership trust; MUFG paid $4.4B for 20%
R. Thyagarajan vested control in an ownership trust run by four professionals in 2021; in 2026 Japan's MUFG paid $4.4B for a fifth of his lending group.
Ler o casoStanley, a 110-year-old utility brand, pivoted to women and grew revenue 10x.
By betting on a single tumbler and influencer-led marketing to women, Stanley grew from $70M (2019) to over $750M (2023) in four years.
Ler o casoMediolanum's founder made his son CEO in 2008, then handed him the chair in 2021
Ennio Doris groomed Massimo for two decades; the board made him CEO on 30 July 2008, and when Ennio retired in 2021 Massimo took the chairmanship.
Ler o casoD&D: 175,000 playtesters and a storytelling-first 5th Edition rebuilt a losing game
After 4th Edition lost the RPG lead to Pathfinder, Wizards ran a two-year public playtest and rebuilt D&D around storytelling, starting six record years.
Ler o casoInvestor Radhakishan Damani turned no-frills stores into India's most valued retailer
A billionaire built DMart on discounts and owned real estate; its 2017 IPO listed 102% above issue, FY24 revenue ₹50,789 crore.
Ler o casoTencent grew through the 2008 crisis on games and QQ, revenue up 87%
Tencent kept monetizing QQ users with games and virtual goods; 2008 revenue rose 87.2% and 2009 revenue rose 73.9%.
Ler o casoIDFC First Bank froze lending for three years, then flipped to a ₹2,957-crore profit
Vaidyanathan merged his NBFC into a deposit-poor infra lender, halted loan growth to rebuild retail deposits, and turned IDFC First Bank profitable.
Ler o casoLacoste revived in the U.S. by making the crocodile scarce and expensive again.
After General Mills cheapened Izod-Lacoste, Robert Siegel relaunched Lacoste USA in 2002 at higher prices; U.S. sales grew ~800% and it became a $1.8B brand.
Ler o casoMarico's founder gave up the MD seat at 63 — and never took it back
Harsh Mariwala handed Marico's managing-director role to insider Saugata Gupta in 2014 and stayed only as chairman; the board keeps renewing Gupta.
Ler o casoHBL rode Indian Railways Kavach rollout to a 4,029-crore order book and 79% profit jump
The Hyderabad battery house pivoted to rail-safety electronics, winning Kavach train-protection contracts as Indian Railways scaled the system nationwide.
Ler o casoPoland's Allegro was bought by PE for $3.25B — then staged Europe's biggest 2020 IPO
Poland's C2C auction site (1999) went private for $3.25B (2017), was rebuilt, then scored Europe's biggest 2020 IPO on the Warsaw exchange (+63% day one).
Ler o casoLinkedIn kept investing through the 2008 recession and grew revenue 52% in 2009
In the 2008-09 recession LinkedIn kept investing in sales and products; revenue grew from $79M in 2008 to $120M in 2009 and doubled to $243M in 2010.
Ler o casoOGX escaped a R$13.8B bankruptcy as creditor-owned Dommo, absorbed by PetroRio in 2022
Eike Batista's OGX filed for court protection under R$13.8B of debt, handed ownership to creditors through a swap, exited in 2017 and merged into PetroRio.
Ler o casoadidas sold stranded Yeezy stock at cost and beat its own loss forecast
After ending the Yeezy deal, adidas decided to sell the 300m-euro leftover inventory at cost, turning a guided loss into a 268m-euro operating profit.
Ler o casoMcCormick's heir took over in 1932 and saved the spice firm with participative management
After his uncle's 1932 death, Charles P. McCormick saved the Depression-hit spice firm with the Junior Board — participative management that became its culture.
Ler o casoSeiko revived King Seiko, its 1961 rival to Grand Seiko, as a modern regular collection
King Seiko, the 1961 premium line that died in the quartz era, returned in February 2022 with five models from ¥198,000.
Ler o casoShoprite bought its way across Africa — and became the continent's largest food retailer
From 8 Cape Town stores bought in 1979, Shoprite acquired Checkers (1991) and OK Bazaars (1997), expanded across Africa, and hit R256.7bn revenue by FY2025.
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