Winners & Losers 2009
Big winner: Canada The Great Recession offered a rare chance for Canada to toot its own dusty horn.
Comebacks & flameouts We were too quick to write off some of these embattled icons, but others crashed hard.
Saints & sinners The rogues who boiled our blood, and the heroes who restored our faith in business.
Dealmakers The mergers and splits that shook the business landscape.
Feuds Name-calling, stone-throwing and supersize lawsuits: the egos and ideas that clashed in 2009.
Gadget wars Five phones entered the ring for market supremacy. Only one would leave.
Recession shopper The products and brands that thrived in the downturn.
Big loser: Luxury Conspicuous consumption is a casualty of the recession. But will the luxury market come back?
Signs of the times How do people behave in a bad economy? Tupperware parties were up, home invasions were down and fewer people were in the mood to tie the knot in 2009.
Big winner: Women It wasn’t called a ‘he-cession’ for nothing: why more women kept their jobs.
Big loser: Las Vegas Las Vegas raked it in during the good times, but the downturn has made Sin City pay for bad bets.
The morgue/intensive care unit It will take heroic measures to save some of these businesses. Others are beyond helping.
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