101 Dumbest Moments in Business

The year's biggest boors, buffoons, and blunderers

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50. British food processor
Oh, like "monosodium benzoate" tastes so much better...
Mick Woods purchases a package of cooked ham made by British food processor H.R. Hargreaves & Son. After reviewing the complete list of ingredients, which includes "dog s**t," he loses his appetite.

Hargreaves fires the employee responsible for the prank and begins a recall of the mislabeled packages.
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47. Comverse Technology

48. Cablevision Systems

49. EnBW - German utility

50. British food processor

51. Honda

52. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison

53. Disney
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