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It was laughable the things that were wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The place, he says, was awash with committees, steering groups, PWC consultants and new bureaucratic processes. Head-office numbers had mushroomed from 800 to 1,400 in the years he\u2019d been away, while sales were down 25 per cent.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/edition\/business\/founders-failures-and-the-lure-of-the-corporate-comeback-5gnb6v68l\">The Times<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":133825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3328],"tags":[12268,10812],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Founders, failures and the lure of the corporate comeback - TheIndustry.fashion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Four years after being fired by Iceland Foods, Sir Malcolm Walker walked back into the business in February 2005 with trepidation and recalls the relief\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/founders-failures-and-the-lure-of-the-corporate-comeback\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Founders, failures and the lure of the corporate comeback - 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