Title: 5 Big-Name Businesses That Completely Failed
Headings: 5 Big-Name Businesses That Completely Failed
5 Big-Name Businesses That Completely Failed
1. Tidal
2. Fashion Café
3. The XFL
4. Atari
5. DeLorean Motor Company

Content: To make matters worse, two of its executives were charged with insider trading shortly after the E.T. debacle. The company didn’t go out of business after its big stumble, but it never recovered its preeminent position in the U.S. video game market. Source: WILLIAM WEST/AFP/Getty Images
5. DeLorean Motor Company
A list of dramatic business failures wouldn’t be complete without a mention of the infamous DeLorean Motor Company (DMC), a start-up auto manufacturer founded in 1975 by former GM executive John DeLorean. He built a factory in Northern Ireland with millions of dollars in funding from the British government, and the first cars rolled off the assembly line in 1981. Despite the iconic gull-wing design (later immortalized in Back to the Future ), the car didn’t exactly fly with consumers. Fewer than 9,000 vehicles were actually produced before the company shut down in 1982, following DeLorean’s arrest on drug trafficking charges (he was later acquitted). “The problem was he did not have the money to back his big idea for a very different type of sports car,” James Kerr, BBC Northern Ireland’s business editor said in BBC obituary for DeLorean, who died in 2009. “ The car was launched in the midst of a recession.