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Walt Disney’s Bob Iger wins support ahead of AGM showdown with Nelson Peltz
...Walt Disney’s Bob Iger is locking up powerful supporters ahead of Wednesday’s annual meeting clash with activist investors challenging his strategy for the entertainment giant....
April 3, 2024
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Who can run Disney? The four insiders competing for Bob Iger’s job
...; and Dana Walden, co-chair of Disney Entertainment....
April 13, 2024
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
News updates from January 3: US job openings fall to 32-month low, Blasts kill about 100 in Iran
Walt Disney signs ‘information-sharing’ deal withValueAct
...The Walt Disney Company has signed a deal with investor ValueAct Capital, ahead of a battle over the entertainment company’s future expected later this year....
January 3, 2024
Due Diligence
Barbarians at the toll road Premium content
...Disney makes a meal out of Nelson Peltz’s lunch with the FT Nelson Peltz, the billionaire investor who made his fortune as co-founder of Trian Partners, recently sat down with the FT’s Harriet Agnew for...
March 26, 2024
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Disney settles lawsuit in Florida theme-park dispute
...run its own government around Walt Disney World amid a dispute over the state’s so-called Don’t Say Gay law....
March 27, 2024
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Bob Iger defeats Nelson Peltz by wide margin in Disney board clash
...The likes of JPMorgan chief Jamie Dimon, Star Wars creator George Lucas, Laurene Powell Jobs and the grandchildren of Walt Disney all threw their support behind Iger....
April 3, 2024
FT Live
Transforming the Finance Function with AI
Strategies for delivering advanced analytics, automation and decision-making
Thursday, 25 AprilDigital Conference
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Walt Disney unveils $3bn buyback and lifts dividend ahead of activist battles
...Walt Disney handily beat Wall Street’s expectations in its latest quarterly earnings and unveiled shareholder-friendly measures including a $3bn share buyback and a 50 per cent dividend increase, as it prepares...
February 8, 2024
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Nelson Peltz backed for seat on Disney board by proxy adviser ISS
...Iger has also drawn endorsements from heirs of company founders Roy and Walt Disney in recent weeks....
March 21, 2024
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Top proxy adviser Glass Lewis backs Disney’s Iger in Peltz fight
...Walt Disney chief executive Bob Iger has won the backing of influential proxy adviser Glass Lewis in his battle against billionaire activist Nelson Peltz, with the group unconvinced that the latter’s plans...
March 18, 2024
News updates from March 27: Yen hits 34-year low; Nobel winner Daniel Kahneman dies
Disney settles lawsuit in Florida theme-park dispute
...The settlement resolves one of the major legal fights that followed DeSantis’ move to end the company’s 50-year-old right to in effect run its own government around Walt Disney World amid a dispute over...
March 27, 2024
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Disney, Fox and Warner sports streaming platform foreshadows consolidation Premium content
...The valuation multiple now ascribed to ESPN may be too low for Disney’s business, which includes theme parks and the movie studio....
February 7, 2024
John Gapper
Mickey Mouse should help other characters to escape copyright
...Walt Disney expressed the story in his own way, employing many talented artists to do so....
January 5, 2024
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Jamie Dimon backs Disney’s Bob Iger in proxy fight with Nelson Peltz
...As Iger battles Peltz, he has also secured endorsements from the grandchildren of Disney founders Walt and Roy Disney, who sent a letter to shareholders backing the chief executive....
March 13, 2024
Due Diligence
Nelson Peltz gets shut out of the magic kingdom Premium content
...Job moves UBS has named Gregor Feige and Brad Miller as co-heads of the bank’s US equity capital markets group. Santiago Gilfond has been named vice-chairman of the division....
April 4, 2024
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Walt Disney wins backing of ValueAct in fight over its future
...Walt Disney has won the support of investor ValueAct Capital, as the entertainment company gears up for a fight with activist Nelson Peltz over how to boost profits and lift its share price....
January 3, 2024
FT Live
Future of the Car
The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive
Tuesday, 7 MaySancroft, Paternoster Square, London EC4M 7DQ, UK
News updates from December 14: BoE and ECB hold rates steady, ECB’s Lagarde pushes back against rate cuts expectations
Nelson Peltz pushes for two new directors in Walt Disney proxy battle
...Activist hedge fund Trian Partners plans to nominate two candidates to Walt Disney’s board of directors, intensifying a campaign against the media group that is expected to be one of the most contested proxy...
December 14, 2023
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Disney needs new ideas from its cast of in-activist investors Premium content
...Disney chief executive Bob Iger likes to say that the company he runs is fuelled by storytelling. If that is the case then someone needs to punch up the script....
January 5, 2024
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Disney strikes $8.5bn deal to merge India business with Reliance Industries
...At the time, Disney viewed Star India as one of the most promising businesses in Murdoch’s portfolio....
February 28, 2024
News updates from March 12: US House votes through bill to ban TikTok; Geert Wilders announces he will not be Netherlands PM
Jamie Dimon backs Disney’s Bob Iger in proxy fight with Nelson Peltz
...JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon has endorsed Walt Disney’s Bob Iger as a proxy battle with billionaire activist Nelson Peltz nears a showdown at the entertainment giant’s annual meeting next month...
March 13, 2024
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Disney criticises Nelson Peltz as it rejects activist board nominees
...Peltz, co-founder of the Trian Partners hedge fund, is waging a proxy fight to gain board seats for himself and former Disney chief financial officer Jay Rasulo....
January 17, 2024
ReviewMusic
Das Rheingold at Walt Disney Concert Hall — singers and set are the stars of Wagner’s opera
...But the most intriguing aspects of the performance of Wagner’s opera at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles on January 18 (the first of three) were the set design and the cast....
January 22, 2024
News updates from February 27: McKinsey touted its advice to Chinese government, EU parliament bars Amazon lobbyists
Disney shakes up film studio as Bob Iger seeks to regain ‘focus’
...Sean Bailey is stepping down after 15 years as president of Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Production, a tenure that produced successful remakes of The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin, the...
February 27, 2024
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Florida judge dismisses Disney’s free-speech case against Ron DeSantis
...Disney had enjoyed unusual privileges in Florida for decades through the special taxation district, which had been created after a lobbying effort by Walt and Roy Disney in the 1960s....
January 31, 2024
Streaming services
Disney, Warner and Fox join forces for sports streaming venture
...Bob Iger, Disney chief executive, said the launch would be “a significant moment for Disney and ESPN, a major win for sports fans, and an important step forward for the media business”....
February 7, 2024
News updates from January 17: US retail sales beat expectations in December, Lagarde says ECB likely to cut rates this summer
Disney criticises activist investor Peltz for lacking ‘single strategic idea’
...Peltz, co-founder of the Trian Partners hedge fund, is waging a proxy war to gain board seats for himself and former Disney chief financial officer Jay Rasulo....
January 17, 2024

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