The Walt Disney Company was founded in 1923. The main goal of Disney was to deliver quality entertainment for all ages. The first resort that Disney opened was in Anaheim‚ California‚ in July 1955. The success of the first park caused disney to open its second park in Lake Buena Vista‚ Florida‚ in 1971. The continued success of these two parks in the United States caused Disney to seek out international success. Disney anticipated that there would be continued success by “bringing the original disneyland
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Executive Summary Hong Kong Disneyland (Disney HK) is owned by Hong Kong International Theme Parks Limited‚ a joint venture company with 57 percent shares from the Hong Kong Government and 43 percent shares from the Walt Disney Company. One of the key reasons Disney HK was constructed is to create new jobs for both within Disney and through other employment opportunities and was also estimated to generate economic benefits for Hong Kong. This report would include a comprehensive analysis of the company
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Case Brief: Disneyland 1.) How accurate was the projection of visitors to the park? Estimated attendance: 2005 – 5.6 million Actual attendance: Sept. 12‚ 2005 (opening day)-5.2 million In its first year‚ Disneyland in Hong Kong were 400‚000 short of its target of 5.6 million projected visitors Estimated attendance: 2008: 7.1 million Actual attendance: 8.2 million In order to attract more visitors‚ the park has announced to add four new attractions‚ apart from the already-announced
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of customer relationship management strategy in Hong Kong Disneyland. Hong Kong Disneyland is a famous international company over the world. It vision is to provide the quality service on the ceremony to customers and to provide them special unique experiences. We have conducted an interview with a supervisor of customer relationship management department of Hong Kong Disneyland concerning their special customer management strategy. For example‚ how it provides the best services to its guests and
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1. How would you value the Hong Kong Disneyland project from the perspective of Walt Disney? The valuation of Hong Kong Disneyland from the perspective of Walt Disney is done by taking the following assumptions: Cost of Capital = 9.52% Cost of Government Debt = 8.19% Cost of Commercial Bank Debt = 11.36% Cost of Equity = 12.3% (10 year average) Inflation = 7.31% (10 year average) Gross margin = 37% Operating Cost = 22% Variable Management Fee = 5% With the above assumptions the FCF
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Hong Kong Disney: the good and the bad Introduction:Disney Disney was founded on October 16‚ 1923‚ by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio‚ and established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into live-action film production‚ television‚ travel‚ and theme parks (The Walt Disney Company‚ 2012). Disney went on to construct theme parks in California‚ Florida‚ Tokyo‚ Paris‚ and Hong Kong. Today Disney is the largest media conglomerate of the
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As Disney tried to expand their empire further into Asia‚ they were not at all as successful as they had originally expected. With the success of Tokyo Disney Resort producers of Hong Kong Disney were projecting the same experiences to happen in Hong Kong. By using the failures found in Disneyland Resort Paris they knew what not to do in order to achieve greater worth of the Disney name abroad. Though Tokyo and Paris are completely different cultures‚ the adaptation of each culture was done in
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Hong Kong Disneyland had mechanisms in place to adapt to local Hong Kong culture‚ yet these means appeared to be partially ineffective. Why? Despite hard efforts of management‚ during 1 year there were some difficulties Chinese Disneyland faced to. One of the biggest problems was the Lunar New Year Holiday. It took place when administration of park didn’t take into account some particularities of Chinese people consumption habits. This fiasco led to many complaints‚ ticket returns and‚ importantly
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1. Disneyland Market Positioning and Expansion into the international Market Disneyland has pride itself to be a fantasy world‚ a place where people (regardless of age) can escape from reality (Appendix 1 shows that fantasy world is heavily weighted in the proportion of Disney movies). With this positioning statement that applies to everyone regardless of geographic location (Chinese have dreams and can fantasize as much as Americans or Europeans)‚ expansion into the international market may not
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Hong Kong Disneyland The Disney Company envisioned it being a great idea to introduce its resort to the huge market in China by opening up a Disneyland park in Hong Kong. The Chinese people have an interest in the American culture‚ and they want to connect with the global popular culture so in theory it sounded like a great idea. It turns out that HKD has not been the success that many predicted it would be. This is can be contributed to how well Disney was able to translate its strategic assets
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