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The Walt Disney Co. is a California-based, publicly-traded entertainment company founded by the late Walt Disney, with properties that include the ABC, ESPN and other television networks, movie studios, music, radio and theme parks and resorts, including the Walt Disney World resort in Central Florida.
In 2007 fiscal year, the company reported $35.5 billion in revenue and $4.7 billion in net income. Among the divisions is the Parks and Resorts Segment, which has 11 theme parks and two water parks worldwide that all are among the most popular in the world. They include four parks and two water parks at Disney World; two theme parks at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, Calif.; tw...
In 2007 fiscal year, the company reported $35.5 billion in revenue and $4.7 billion in net income. Among the divisions is the Parks and Resorts Segment, which has 11 theme parks and two water parks worldwide that all are among the most popular in the world. They include four parks and two water parks at Disney World; two theme parks at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, Calif.; tw...
The Walt Disney Co. is a California-based, publicly-traded entertainment company founded by the late Walt Disney, with properties that include the ABC, ESPN and other television networks, movie studios, music, radio and theme parks and resorts, including the Walt Disney World resort in Central Florida.
In 2007 fiscal year, the company reported $35.5 billion in revenue and $4.7 billion in net income. Among the divisions is the Parks and Resorts Segment, which has 11 theme parks and two water parks worldwide that all are among the most popular in the world. They include four parks and two water parks at Disney World; two theme parks at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, Calif.; two in Tokyo; two in Paris; and one in Hong Kong. The division also covers the Disney Vacation Club chain of timeshare resorts, the two-ship Disney Cruise Line and other leisure ventures.
Many of the company's most valuable properties are intellectual properties rights to popular characters such as Mickey Mouse, "Disney princesses" including Snow White and Cinderella, or TV characters such as Hannah Montana. One of Disney's signature strategies is to develop ways to offer such characters through all of its businesses, from theme parks to TV to music to computer games to stuffed toys. The Walt Disney Co.'s chairman is John E. Pepper Jr. Robert A. Iger is president and chief executive officer.
In 2007 fiscal year, the company reported $35.5 billion in revenue and $4.7 billion in net income. Among the divisions is the Parks and Resorts Segment, which has 11 theme parks and two water parks worldwide that all are among the most popular in the world. They include four parks and two water parks at Disney World; two theme parks at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, Calif.; two in Tokyo; two in Paris; and one in Hong Kong. The division also covers the Disney Vacation Club chain of timeshare resorts, the two-ship Disney Cruise Line and other leisure ventures.
Many of the company's most valuable properties are intellectual properties rights to popular characters such as Mickey Mouse, "Disney princesses" including Snow White and Cinderella, or TV characters such as Hannah Montana. One of Disney's signature strategies is to develop ways to offer such characters through all of its businesses, from theme parks to TV to music to computer games to stuffed toys. The Walt Disney Co.'s chairman is John E. Pepper Jr. Robert A. Iger is president and chief executive officer.
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Filling empty bowls to combat hunger in Laurel
An empty bowl can hold anything, but too often, for those who are hungry, it remains empty. That's what Rebecca Adams, a special education biology teacher at Laurel High, said she hopes participants will remember as they leave the Empty Bowls dinner at...
Tags: Material Science, Teaching and Learning, Students, Building Material, Halethorpe
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Snow White is sooo yesterday
"Someday, my prince will come." -- Snow White, 1937 In a hotel in Canada hangs this picture, someone's mischievous take on Snow White a few years after happily ever after. She is posed in an anonymous suburban den. Behind her, Prince Charming slouches in...
Tags: Oprah Winfrey, Marriage, Snow White (fictional character), Television Industry, Family
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Steve Jobs, old-fashioned visionary
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died this week after a long battle with cancer, is rightfully being lauded as a visionary, a person who brought technology seamlessly into our lives and who could all but see the future in his development of new ideas that...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Thomas Edison, Apple iPhone, Bill Gates, Business Enterprises
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Voltaggios ditch competition for collaboration
When the doctor's office receptionist summons her, when she flashes her credit card at the grocery store, when she leaves a phone message — the reaction to her last name these days is always the same.
Voltaggio?
"They say, 'Are you …?' And...Tags: Sandwiches, Volt, Walnuts, Bryan Voltaggio, Walt Disney
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Phillips Seafood move to be discussed next week
Phillips Seafood is scheduled to present its exterior plans for a new restaurant at the Inner Harbor's Power Plant at a July 14 meeting of Baltimore City's Urban Design and Architecture Review Panel. The meeting's agenda, released Thursday, confirms a...Tags: William Donald Schaefer, Seafood, Dining and Drinking, Foods and Beverages, Rental Service
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Clock running out on ESPN Zone
Dining@LargeHate to break your hearts, foodies, but it looks like ESPN Zone in the Inner Harbor is closing.At least that's what an unidentified source tells the LA Times. The source tells the Times that Walt Disney Co., which owns the chain,......Tags: Anaheim, Downtown Disney, Inner Harbor, ESPN (tv network), Los Angeles Times
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Quotes about Jim McKay's legacy
President Bush: "Laura and I were saddened to learn of the passing of Jim McKay. For a generation of Americans, Jim was more than the much-honored host of Wide World of Sports and ABC's Olympic coverage. He was a talented and eloquent newsman and...Tags: Peter G. Angelos, Horse and Harness Racing, George Bush, Executive Branch, Television
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More heartbreak for the Angels
Tribune NewspapersThis shouldn't happen to anyone. But if a talented, 22-year-old pitcher was going to get killed hours after a brilliant performance, it figured it would be someone who played for the Los Angeles Angels. For a franchise only now entering middle age, the...Tags: Eric Milton, Hospitals and Clinics, Minnesota Twins, Shawn Estes, Miami Marlins
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The Fairy Food Post
Dining@LargeNotableM, Joyce W. and Sean did a good job of trying to stave off the Fairy Food Post, but somebody, not mentioning any names, was still a teeny bit grumpy. Too bad for the rest of you, but you know......Tags: Elves and Fairies (legendary entities)
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About that venison heart
Dining@LargeA friend of mine recently traveled to Chicago and, while dining out at The Publican restaurant, was surprised to see venison heart on the menu.Sounds to me like a twofer movie sequel, in which the huntsman charged with doing in......Tags: Chicago Restaurants, Dining and Drinking, Snow White (fictional character), Foods and Beverages, Game
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Court rules for Disney directors in Ovitz ouster
From Wire ReportsWILMINGTON, Del. - Walt Disney Co. directors, including Chief Executive Officer Michael Eisner, properly oversaw the ouster of former President Michael Ovitz after his 14 months on the job and don't have to reimburse the company for his $140 million...Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Television Industry, DVDs, Television, Corporate Officers
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Wasted words hang over return and leave little worth hearing
HE COULD have had us at "Hello" ... but that was 10 days ago. Rafael Palmeiro could have stood up on the day he was suspended and made a clean breast of it - either that or delivered some kind of explanation that passed the smell test and put to rest...Tags: Tom Davis, National Government, Rafael Palmeiro, Baseball, Government
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