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The Walt Disney Company

Headquarters: Burbank
Founded: 1923
Employees: 201,000

Official website

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Ships in this registry

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In brief

What The Walt Disney Company is

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The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as simply Disney, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Founded on October 16, 1923, as an animation studio by brothers Walt and Roy Oliver Disney as Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Disney operated under the names Walt Disney Studio and Walt Disney Productions before adopting its current name in 1986. In 1928, Disney established itself as a leader in the animation industry with the short film Steamboat Willie. The film used synchronized sound to become the first post-produced sound cartoon, and popularized Mickey Mouse, who became Disney's mascot and corporate icon.

After becoming a success by the early 1940s, Disney diversified into live-action films, television, and theme parks in the 1950s. However, following Walt Disney's death in 1966, the company's profits, especially in the animation sector, began to decline. In 1984, Disney's shareholders voted Michael Eisner as CEO, who led a reversal of the company's decline through a combination of international theme park expansion and the highly successful Disney Renaissance period of animation from 1989 to 1999.

Quoted from The Walt Disney Company on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin

Who founded it

The Walt Disney Company was founded in 1923 in Burbank by 2 named founders on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.

Founder

Walt Disney

1901–1966

American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)

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Founder

Roy O. Disney

1893–1971

American businessman and producer, co-founder of The Walt Disney Company (1893–1971)

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People

Leadership on record

Officers and directors as recorded in open reference data. This reflects the most recent statement in the source, not a filing date — check the company's own disclosures before relying on it.

Chief executive

Walt Disney

1901–1966

American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)

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Chief executive

Card Walker

1916–2005

American businessman

Chief executive

Roy O. Disney

1893–1971

American businessman and producer, co-founder of The Walt Disney Company (1893–1971)

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Chief executive

Donn Tatum

1913–1993

American businessman (1913-1993)

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Chief executive

Bob Iger

1951

American businessman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company (born 1951)

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Chief executive

Michael Eisner

1942

American business executive

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Chief executive

Raymond Watson

1926–2012

president of the Irvine Company (1926-2012)

Chief executive

Josh D'Amaro

1971

American businessman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company

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Chief executive

Bob Chapek

1960

American businessman

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Board

Board member

Safra Catz

1961

Israeli-American business executive

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Board member

Susan Arnold

1954

American businessperson, an operating executive of The Carlyle Group, and chair of the Walt Disney Company

Board member

Mark Parker

1955

American chief executive of Nike, Inc.

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Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: The Walt Disney Company
Industry: leisure park industry
Legal form: Delaware corporation
Country of registration: United States
Headquarters: Burbank
Formed in: Burbank
Founded: 1923
Dissolved: —
Employees: 201,000
Listed on: Tokyo Stock Exchange
Ticker: —
ISIN: US2546871060
Legal Entity Identifier: 549300GZKULIZ0WOW665
Head office coordinates: 34.1803, -118.3283

Ships on record here: 0
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Reported financials

Financial year 2022

All figures in USD

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Revenue

82.7bn USD

Reported for 2022

Net profit

3.1bn USD

Reported for 2022

Total assets

204bn USD

Reported for 2022

Corporate structure

Ownership and holdings

Owned by

BlackRockThe Vanguard Group

Services and products

musicsoftwarebroadcastingvideo game

Subsidiaries and units (1)

National Geographic Partners

Vessel records

Ships on record

0 vessels

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The company is on record, but no vessel in the registry currently names it as operator or owner. Nothing is invented to fill this space.

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In context

How The Walt Disney Company compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

United States is the country of registration for 144 commercial operators in this directory, among which The Walt Disney Company ranks 111th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 435 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in United States.

Founded in 1923, The Walt Disney Company is 103 years old. This directory holds 57 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.

Provenance

Where this page comes from

Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q7414, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.

Written summaryQuoted from The Walt Disney Company on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.

American businessperson and board member, President and Chief Executive Officer of Illumina, Inc.

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Board member

Mary Barra

1961

Chief Executive Officer of General Motors

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Board member

Michael Froman

1962

American businessperson and board member, Vice Chairman and President, Strategic Growth at Mastercard Incorporated and former US Trade representative

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Board member

Caroline Leonetti Ahmanson

1918–2005

American businesswoman and philanthropist

Board member

Bob Chapek

1960

American businessman

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Board member

Derica W. Rice

American businessperson and corporate director, former Executive Vice President, CVS Health Corporation

Board member

Amy Chang

American businessperson, corporate director, former Executive Vice President and Executive Advisor at Cisco Systems, Inc.

Board member

Calvin McDonald

American businessperson and board member, Chief Executive Officer of Lululemon Athletica

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2026-09-05

What The Walt Disney Company is

Who founded it

Leadership on record

Identity and registration

Financial year 2022

Ownership and holdings

Ships on record

How The Walt Disney Company compares

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