Walt Disney, The Company
Type
-Public
(NYSE: DIS)
Founded -Burbank,
California, USA (1923)
Founder
-Walt Disney
and Roy Disney
Headquarters
-Burbank,
California, USA
Industry
-Media
and
Entertainment
Revenue
-
$35.51 billion USD (2008)
Operating
income -
$7.827 billion USD
(2007)
Net
income -
$3.832 billion USD
(2007)
Employees
-
137,000
(2008)
Website
-
disney.go.com
1923 THE
YEAR THE COMPANY WAS FOUNDED
1929 - Disney
merchandising began in 1929 when Walt Disney was approached by a
businessman interested in placing Mickey Mouse on the cover of a
children's writing tablet. The Consumer Products segment now
extends the Disney brand to merchandise ranging from apparel, toys,
home décor and books to interactive games, food and beverage,
electronics and fine art.
3
for 1 stock split happened on June 19, 1988
7,000 tons and more have been recycled since 1990; this includes
plastic, glass and aluminum.
442,000 hours of community service where performed by the Wald
Disney Company VoluntEARS in 2005.
$190 million dollars in cash, and in-kind donations, and airtime to
charities was donated by the Walt Disney Company in 2005
$31.9 billion in revenue in the year 2005
133,000 employees as of 2006
$4 million dollars was the purchase price for WED enterprises to be
sold to Walt Disney Productions on February 3, 1965
38 hotels are operated by the Disney Company or subsidiary
worldwide, which are over 35,000 hotel rooms.
1 billion Theme Park guest is welcomed on September 6,
1994
5/5/2006 is
the date that Pixar became a subsidiary of the Walt Disney
Company.
3 box office records were broken when Tarzan opened on Broadway at
the Richard Rogers Theater on May 10, 2006.