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Corporate failure

Why do companies fail?

Corporate failure occurs for a number of reasons. For example:

 Poor leadership and management

 Failure to control costs

 Poor working capital management

 Failure to adapt to meet changing customers’ needs

 Poor research leading to inappropriate markets/products

 Tougher market conditions

 Failure to pay taxes

………… and many more

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