34 Companies That Made Hilariously Regrettable Decisions

It's not easy running a business: There are so many plates to spin and things to consider that it's not surprising that there are countless examples of nightmare-inducing missteps. With all that said — and the understanding that hindsight is 20/20 — a lot of these companies should have probably foreseen how poorly many of these ideas were going to play out. 

A clothing company making bricks? A pen company that got into the underwear game? An awkwardly named, yogurt-flavored version of one of the most popular cola brands in Japan? We’re not saying that if we were put in charge we would have definitely made better decisions, but we’d like to think we wouldn’t have made such embarrassing ones.