Disney in its newest flurry of licensing has unleashed some interesting products into the marketplace. One of which is Disney cereal! Now how come they didn”t have this stuff when I was a kid? The 3 new cereals are Mickey’’s Magix, Buzz Blasts, and Hunny B’s.
The three cereal are interesting and chock full of [...]

alt Disney Internet Group and KDDI Corp. have entered a cooperative agreement to offer Disney Mobile wireless content over the “Disney-ez” site, accessible via KDDI’’s au and Tu-Ka EZweb wireless Internet platforms.
The agreement enables wireless subscribers to EZweb-compatible au and Tu-Ka cellular phone services in Japan to download images, ring-tone melodies, news and e-cards featuring [...]

According to records that were recently unsealed, Disney was fined $90,000 last year for shredding documents. The documents were related to the dispute on money over Disney’’s Winnie the Pooh related merchandise.
http://www.nandotimes.com/business/story/223404p-2155156c.html

The cover story for this month’s Wired magazine takes a look at Disney’’s business practices and its magical ability to sell itself. Is Disney the vanguard of consumer american culture? To read the full article you will have to buy the magazine or wait until February 12th for it to come online.
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Economist.com has an interesting article about Michael Eisner. It basically outlines his strengths and weaknesses and what will need to change in order to help revive Disney.
Here is the complete article:\r\nhttp://www.economist.com/people/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=929897

The following letter has been pulled from the Disney Company’’s Annual Report for 2001. You can read the full report at http://disney.go.com/corporate/investors/financials/annual/2001/index.html.\r
TO FELLOW DISNEY OWNERS AND CAST MEMBERS:
Like other fiscal years, 2001 was a year of many high points and many challenges. But all of it pales in significance in light of one date [...]

Michael Eisner recently invited Florida Governor Jeb Bush to the Disney-MGM Studios to show him what Disney has been creating to try to attract people to the parks, focusing on the 100 Years of Magic celebration. They discussed what should be done to regain the trust of tourists. Bush said that the new [...]

After months of controversy over Disney’’s cutbacks, including firing many employees at Walt Disney World, things are starting to look better. Disney has announced that they are hiring 744 new workers of all sorts. New jobs range from food service to costumed characters. 262 of these new employees will only be seasonal, [...]

A rather depressing article on yahoo.com about the planned Hong Kong park. Its seems that the dredging and land reclamation has been damaging the local fishing waters. Hong Kong’s efforts to avoid contamination have not been very successful and the number of fishing families has fallen by fifty percent.
Read the full article [...]

In this economic downturn Disney is laying off the actors who work in the various shows around Disney. CNN has a decent article that discusses one such actor. Read the article at:
http://www.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/News/11/02/disneyactors.layoffs.ap/index.html.
Next time you go back to Disney those familiar faces in the shows may not be so familiar.