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What's the solution? Li & Fung is moving up the food chain, becoming a brand-managing powerhouse. This year it is on track to sell more than $200 million of licensed goods like Levi's Red Tab and Signature tops and Disney plush toys--a business many analysts expect to grow to $1 billion by 2007. In August it paid $124 million for the U.S.-based Briefly Stated, which produces pajamas, underwear and T shirts for such diverse brands as Professional Bull Riders Inc. and Catwoman. Eradicating the middleman role for some products could open up other opportunities...
...ends with the pair holding hands and walking into the sunset as Elmo sings “Dance with Brown.” “Kids from disadvantaged neighborhoods are starting school with many, many fewer words,” Knell said. “We do what Disney is not going to do.” Some audience members took the chance to reminisce about their own years of watching the show last night. “I grew up with three versions of Sesame Street: the Bengali, Arabic, and English versions,” said Salwa...
Officials at NASN, now run by the Disney-owned U.S. sports boss ESPN--which bought the independent European channel from Irish broadcaster Setanta Sports and venture-capital group Benchmark Capital Europe in 2006 for a reported $120million--say their goal is to reach 100million households in Europe, surpassing espn's 93million subscribers in the U.S. The last person to call such an ambitious shot may have been Babe Ruth, but NASN executives say they've tapped into a growing demographic of European sports fans who no longer consider American baseball, football, college basketball or even NASCAR exotic...
Frank O. Gehry graduated from the Design School in 1957 and was awarded an honorary doctorate of arts in 2000 by the University. His architectural masterpieces include the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles...
...Since 2003, Ogilvy PR, an international firm which also works for Disney and Slim-Fast, has been paid by the government to hold fake press conferences and broadcast live to a Virtual News Network (VNN), a closed-circuit satellite TV network modeled after CNN. Only people involved in the exercise can watch VNN or access its web site. The real media are only allowed to watch from afar...