Disney's business plan given to investors in 1957

[packman]

The guy had it all planned out and it all worked out pretty well.


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"Disney’s dominance can be boiled down very simply to one word: franchises. Or rather, an “incessant focus on franchises” in the words of former Disney CFO Jay Rasulo.

“Everything we do is about brands and franchises,” Rasulo told a group of financial analysts last September. “Ten years ago we were more like other media companies, more broad-based, big movie slate, 20 something pictures, some franchise, some not franchise. If you look at our slate strategy now, our television strategy, almost every aspect of the company, we are oriented around brands and franchises.”

http://kottke.org/15/06/walt-disneys-corporate-strategy-chart

[brentspeak]

1. Back when corporations actually made money by making and selling things

Now Disney makes money by "maximizing shareholder value": e.g., laying off American IT workers and hiring cheaper Indian replacements, and using that to prop up its stock price.

[hifiguy]

2. Jay "Bullwinkle" Ward skewered Disney back in the early Sixties

with this little cartoon. The prince should look rather familiar:

Uncle Walt was furious and it took weeks to talk him off the ceiling and out of suing Ward, who publicly DARED Disney to sue him.

[olddots]

3. hey Rocky watch me pull a franchise out of my butt......

At one time a long long time ago you could only get Disney merchandise at Disneyland or Disneyworld ...and it was made in America ...........