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September 7, 2026
Can a new strategy revive Diageo?
CEO Dave Lewis starts with a $1B cost program and job cuts, rules out buying or selling businesses, and moves Diageo away from premiumization toward mass-market price tiers.
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⚡ Against the Grain September 1, 2026
Time's Running Out for Volkswagen and its CEO
Oliver Blume keeps pushing plant closures after the supervisory board voted him down, diagnosing a profit problem rather than a product problem.
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September 17, 2026
Kroger's battle with price to last multiple years
CEO Greg Foran sequences the reset as execution basics first, then a multiyear cost program, with price cuts funded only by the savings.
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October 1, 2026
Inside the 50 "War Rooms" Stellantis Is Using to Fix Its Quality Problems
CEO Antonio Filosa makes product quality the first fix, standing up about 50 cross-functional war rooms and adding more than 2,000 engineers while a $7B cost program runs alongside.