Spanish Armada – 1588

10 years ago

King Philip II of Spain regarded himself as the principal defender of the Catholic faith in 16th-century Europe. Provoked by…

Honda F1 Withdrawal – 2008-2009

10 years ago

From the early 1990s Honda pursued high-profile success in the premier international motor-racing series, supplying engines to established teams in…

Bernie Madoff’s Billion Dollar Ponzi Scam – 2008

10 years ago

It was inevitable that the fallout from the collapse of international banking and the global government bailouts would add the…

Societe Generale Trading Loss – 2008

10 years ago

The world now knows to its cost that the great investment banks lost all sense of disciplined prudence as they…

Coca-Cola’s Dasani Water – 2004

10 years ago

Five years after its 1999 launch in the USA, Coca-Cola had achieved a marketing miracle with its Dasani bottled water.…

Equitable Life – 2001

10 years ago

Founded in 1762, the same year as Barings Bank, Equitable Life used to share the same reputation for probity. That…

Enron and the SPEs – 2001

10 years ago

For five years straight, Fortune magazine named it ‘most innovative company of the year’. By then Enron was a colossus,…

Boo.com Goes Bankrupt – 2000

10 years ago

The dotcom frenzy reached its zenith around the millennium. At every stage of its explosive development and violent decline, its…

Dorling Kindersley – 2000

10 years ago

From the outset in 1974 (Christopher) Dorling and (Peter) Kindersley were successful hook packagers (they created finished books for other…

Kevin Costner’s The Postman – 1997

10 years ago

Let’s be clear: this movie is not to be confused with the Oscar-nominated II Postino (released in the US as…