Gaffes, scandals and ineptitude: the Business Agenda awards for failure 2017

It’s been a stellar year for the corporate world, with numerous candidates for each category, but here is our roll call of deserving winners

Full marks to British business, which, after years of churning out a world-class collection of gaffes, corporate scandals and outright ineptitude, again spent 2017 producing a stockpile of gems that look like they might have been concocted by a combination of Oliver Stone and David Nobbs.

Still, that is precisely the type of unrecognised corporate achievement that the Observer’s Business Agenda Awards are designed to celebrate. At this year’s lunch the committee again cogitated over some tricky decisions – and over whether to risk sampling the Tesco turkey main course.

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from The Guardian http://ift.tt/2Eod8bt