Viettel moved Vietnam’s 2G users to 4G with free phones
To ease a risky 2G shutdown, Viettel gave 4G feature phones to 700,000 subscribers; Vietnam’s 2G base fell from over 18 million to 143,000.
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2,000 CASOS PUBLICADOS · ATUALIZADOS REGULARMENTEIreland sold Bord Gáis Energy under its bailout deal and kept the pipes
A €1.12bn Centrica-led takeover closed out Ireland's troika asset-sales programme while the state kept the gas grid itself.
Ler o casoGap hired a Mattel exec to revive its brands and by 2024 it grew sales and took share
Richard Dickson's brand reinvigoration made Gap profitable across all four quarters of 2024, with 3% full-year comps.
Ler o casoJulie Smolyansky took over Lifeway at 27 and kept it the kefir leader
After founder Michael Smolyansky died in 2002, daughter Julie became CEO at 27 and grew Lifeway from $12M to $81.4M (97% of US kefir).
Ler o casoHasbro and Jazwares relaunched Micro Machines after a decade off shelves
Jazwares licensed Micro Machines from Hasbro and relaunched the tiny-car line at Target and Walmart in 2020
Ler o casoThird Point's letter got Nestlé buying back CHF 20B and selling slow brands
Daniel Loeb's June 2017 letter pushed Nestlé toward margins, buybacks and portfolio cuts; it completed a CHF 20B buyback and sold US candy for $2.8B.
Ler o casoJain eLibrary turned 4 million scanned pages into JainGPT for 22,000 users
Jain eLibrary used OCR and semantic search to make hard-to-access Jain texts usable worldwide, first building Jain Quantum and then launching JainGPT.
Ler o casoChiquita used a prearranged Chapter 11 to cut $700M of debt and keep bananas running
Chiquita filed a prearranged Chapter 11 in 2001, handed bondholders over 90% of the equity, cut debt by $700M and emerged in March 2002.
Ler o casoCadbury brought back the Wispa bar in 2007 after a Facebook campaign
A Facebook group with almost 14,000 members pushed Cadbury to relaunch the axed Wispa bar; 23 million bars went on sale from October 2007.
Ler o casoEngaged Capital's 9.9% stake reset Hain Celestial's board, then its CEO and portfolio
Engaged Capital won six Hain board seats, then the company changed CEO and sold off low-margin units.
Ler o casoToyota launched the Prius in December 1997 and created a 10-million-car hybrid franchise
In 1997 Toyota put the world's first mass-produced hybrid on sale; by 2017 cumulative hybrid sales had passed 10 million.
Ler o casoElliott's Suncor campaign replaced the CEO and lifted shares 33%
Elliott's 2022 letter pushed Suncor to refresh board and management; a new CEO cut costs and fixed safety, and the stock rose ~33%.
Ler o casoElectric made IT support chat-first and raised a $9.25M Series A
Facing slow, expensive IT support, Electric paired a Slack chat interface with human-assisted automation and raised $9.25M to scale.
Ler o casoNTL swapped $10.9B of debt for equity and split in two to emerge from Chapter 11
Cable operator NTL turned $10.9B of debt into shares and bonds, split its UK and European arms, and emerged in January 2003.
Ler o casoKodak's Charmera, a 1980s-style keychain camera, sold out in hours and revived the brand
A 30g retro keychain camera sold in blind boxes became a Gen Z hit, selling out within hours and putting Kodak back in the spotlight.
Ler o casoElliott's Twitter campaign kept Dorsey, added directors and won a $2B buyback
Elliott took a $1B Twitter stake and pushed to remove Dorsey; a deal kept him as CEO but added three directors and funded a $2B buyback.
Ler o casoBandai re-released the original Tamagotchi for its 20th anniversary
Bandai brought back the 1996 egg-shaped virtual pet at ¥1,920 in Japan, tapping a brand that has sold 76 million units.
Ler o casoEicher's young MD turned near-dead Royal Enfield into India's cult motorcycle brand
Siddhartha Lal repositioned Royal Enfield from stagnant workhorse marque to a lifestyle brand; volumes rose from 32,612 units in 2006-07 to 822,724 in 2018-19.
Ler o casoSkyAlert built its own earthquake sensor network after a false alarm
After a false alarm exposed its dependence on Mexico's public system, SkyAlert built an independent sensor network and grew past 6 million users.
Ler o casoKFH's $11.6bn purchase of Ahli United created the Gulf's second-largest Islamic bank
Kuwait Finance House bought Bahrain's Ahli United in an $11.6bn all-share deal and merged it into the Gulf's second-largest Islamic bank.
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