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The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business

Posted by michael on from the bright-ideas dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Business 2.0's fourth annual review of the most shameful, dishonest, and just plain stupid moments of the past year. Yes, SCO is represented..."

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  1. IKEA by frozenray · · Score: 0, Redundant
    "In April, Swedish furniture giant Ikea explains that a children's bunk bed called the Gutvik is named for "a tiny town in Sweden." Announcing that bit of etymology becomes necessary when Germans point out that, in their neck of the woods, the word sounds like a phrase that means "good f***." Ikea yanks the Gutvik from its catalogs in Germany."
    While they were at it, they apparently also yanked the "Rekdal" bed frame from their product line for obvious reasons (I'm not making this up).

    I bet those two beds sold like hotcakes in the small Austrian town of Fucking, though...
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