Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger expressed sympathy with consumers who have complained about the company’s theme park prices. Iger, speaking Thursday at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and ...
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Disney CEO Bob Iger wants fresh Marvel superhero slate
Cassie Lang (Kathryn Newton) and Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) in “Ant-Man and the Wasp in Quantumania.” Disney After a fourth Thor movie and a third standalone Ant-Man film, even Disney CEO Bob ...
Web3 Innovator, Impossible Cloud, Selects Bob Gold & Associates as Its PR Agency of Record
Industry-Renowned PR & Marketing Agency Will Help Launch Ground-breaking Decentralized Cloud Platform LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#BobGoldPR—Impossible Cloud, the revolutionary cloud platform that...
Disney employees are furious over Bob Iger’s return-to-office mandate and more than 2,000 have signed a petition to fight back
Another return-to-office showdown is underway, and this time it’s going on at the “happiest place on Earth.” After Disney CEO Bob Iger declared last month that employees will need to spend at least fo...
Jamaica’s First Bob Marley-Branded Cannabis Store Comes To Market
The Marley Natural Dispensary has just launched at The Bob Marley Museum in Kingston, Jamaica. CH Photography As the legal cannabis retail business gains momentum again in the United States, one of th...
Bob Iger signals Disney Hulu strategy shift
Disney CEO Bob Iger’s apparent openness to selling Hulu marks a stark reversal in strategy for the company — and an even more surprising shift if Iger sells the streaming service to Comcast. Ige...
Disney has more upside thanks to Bob Iger’s turnaround plan
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday said that he’s bullish on Disney after the company announced a robust restructuring and cost-cutting plan. “Disney finally feels like it’s back o...
Bob Iger Moving Quickly To Get Walt Disney Company Back On The Right Track
Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Disney Getty Images for Disney Shares in Walt Disney Corp. opened at $118.04 today, an increase of 5.6% over yesterday’s close of $110.78 after returning CEO B...
Disney CEO Bob Iger says he prefers to stay only two years
Disney CEO Bob Iger appeared on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” Thursday following the company’s announcement it would cut 7,000 jobs and slash $5.5 billion in costs as part of a...
Disney CEO Bob Iger puts turnaround plans in place after a solid quarter
Disney (DIS) reported a stronger-than-expected fiscal 2023 first quarter after the closing bell Wednesday, and Bob Iger struck the right tone on his first conference call since returning as CEO, prior...
Disney (DIS) earnings Q1 2023: Bob Iger returns
LOS ANGELES – Smaller subscriber losses and a beat on the top and bottom lines were the highlights of Disney‘s fiscal first-quarter earnings report. While the company’s linear TV and direc...
Disney Will Reinstate Dividends, Cut 7,000 Jobs As Bob Iger Hones In On Bottom Line
Topline Disney CEO Bob Iger outlined his plan to turn around the entertainment behemoth in the first quarterly earnings call since his return, laying out a plan to save $5.5 billion by eliminating abo...
ESPN may be ‘the most important issue for Bob Iger,’ analyst says
As Disney (DIS) gears up to report its fiscal first quarter earnings after the bell on Wednesday, one analyst says the future of ESPN may be CEO Bob Iger’s most important issue to solve. “...
CBS Renews Comedy ‘Bob Hearts Abishola’ For Season 5
Chuck Lorre sitcom “Bob Hearts Abishola” will return for season five in the 2022-23 TV season. CBS On the heels of the renewal of The Neighborhood, CBS has announced a fifth season order f...
Disney CEO Bob Iger Requires Hybrid Staff To Return To The Office At Least Four Days A Week
Getty Images Key takeaways During the pandemic, roughly 18% of the workforce worked remotely. Despite worker preference for working from home, companies like Disney have demanded a return to the offic...
Disney CEO Bob Iger went sailing on his yacht while activist investor Nelson Peltz ramped up pressure on the media giant
With its stock price flailing and under rising pressure from activist investor Nelson Peltz of Trian Partners, newly reinstalled Disney (DIS) CEO Bob Iger reportedly spent the holidays enjoying the op...
Bob Iger’s next big challenge at Disney is activist investor Nelson Peltz
Bob Iger will face yet another challenge as Disney (DIS) CEO — activist investor Nelson Peltz. On Wednesday, Disney announced Nike executive chairman Mike Parker will take over Susan Arnold’s po...
Disney CEO Bob Iger tells employees to return to the office four days a week
Bob Iger poses with Mickey Mouse attends Mickey’s 90th Spectacular at The Shrine Auditorium on October 6, 2018 in Los Angeles. Valerie Macon | AFP | Getty Images Disney CEO Bob Iger told hybrid ...
World’s First Bob Marley Restaurant To Open As Part Of Montego Bay Airport Retail Revamp
The first Bob Marley-branded restaurant is on its way. (Photo by Mike Prior/Redferns) Redferns Jamaica’s busiest international gateway, Sangster Airport, which serves resorts in and around Montego Bay...
Who will be Disney’s next CEO? Top contenders to succeed Bob Iger
Bob Iger, CEO, The Walt Disney Company Scott Mlyn | CNBC Disney reappointed Bob Iger as its chief executive recently, abruptly replacing his hand-picked successor Bob Chapek, and giving Iger an early ...
Cramer double downs on Disney shares as Bob Iger retakes the helm
Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) has been in focus ever since Bob Iger returned as the Chief Executive of the entertainment conglomerate – a comeback that Jim Cramer says is reason enough to load up on this...
Disney CEO Bob Iger talks ‘Don’t Say Gay,’ LGBTQ inclusion at town hall
Bob Iger poses with Mickey Mouse attends Mickey’s 90th Spectacular at The Shrine Auditorium on October 6, 2018 in Los Angeles. Valerie Macon | AFP | Getty Images Following criticism of its past ...
Bob Iger’s fast start back as Disney’s CEO is welcome news to shareholders like us
Bob Iger, who returned last week as CEO of Disney (DIS), told employees Monday he intends to maintain the company’s current hiring freeze. He also reiterated the need for Disney to pivot its str...
Disney hiring freeze will stay in place, CEO Bob Iger tells employees
Chief executive officer and chairman of The Walt Disney Company Bob Iger and Mickey Mouse look on before ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, November 27, 2017 in New York City. Ge...
The Disney CFO Who Raised Concerns About Bob Chapek Has Respect on the Street
Christine McCarthy, Walt Disney Co. ’s longtime finance chief, took an unusual step when she expressed a lack of confidence in the chief executive to directors of the entertainment giant. Finance chi...
Bob Iger can’t wave a ‘magic wand’ to change Disney’s structural problems: Analyst
Disney’s (DIS) Bob Iger will be inheriting quite a mess as he reassumes the CEO position at a company he led for 15 years. “Disney’s problems are more structural than they are relate...
Former Disney CEO Bob Iger Is Back Again And Shareholders Are Loving It
| Getty Images Key Takeaways Bob Iger led Disney as CEO from 2005 through 2020, turning the company into a media juggernaut. Under ex-CEO Bob Chapek, the company continued to grow until the most recen...
Bob Iger was on a $10 million consultancy deal at Disney—to advise the CEO he eventually replaced
Before Bob Iger returned to the helm of Disney, the entertainment giant signed him to a $10 million deal to advise his successor Bob Chapek—even though the two executives were hardly speaking. Iger, w...
Who Will Be Bob Iger’s Tim Cook?
(Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Getty Images There’s a common joke on various shows these days: a frustrated character says to another who has failed and flailed at some task, “You had one job an...
Disney CFO Christine McCarthy is at the center of Bob Iger’s comeback plan
Good morning, As Bob Iger returns to Disney, the company’s longtime CFO Christine McCarthy, who has the ear of the board, will help usher in a strategic restructuring. Bob Chapek, who succeeded ...
This award-winning editor says Bob Iger could sell Disney to Apple Inc
Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) renamed Bob Iger as its Chief Executive last week. He now has two years to conjure a turnaround and find a suitable successor. That’s what Invezz has reported already. Are y...