Category: DIS
Shareholders to Disney: You’ve Got No Friend in HRC
Disney Can Reclaim Its Magic by Dropping Divisive Partnership Washington, D.C. -- At today’s annual shareholder meeting of the Walt Disney Company, a representative of the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP) will present a proposal ...
Scott Shepard: Some Wandering Wonderings About Disney’s Odd Shareholder Vote
"[W]hen shareholders vote, the votes go to a company called Broadridge that somehow controls nearly all the voting pipes," writes Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard in a commentary published by RealClearMarkets. So one would hope that Broadridge is a nonpartisan entity ...
Shareholders Ask Disney to Disclose Pattern of Controversial Charitable Donations – Disney Board Says NO!
Washington, D.C. – Today, concerned shareholders from the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP) will present a proposal (Proposal #8) at The Walt Disney Company annual shareholder meeting that would require the Company to disclose on ...
Scott Shepard: Hate Woke Corporatism? Vote Your Shares Against It In Minutes
"There’s another tool to fight woke – one that shareholders can use, whether they own a few shares or millions," write Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard at The Daily Caller. For instance, in the case of the upcoming Disney ...
Companies Aligned With BLM Must Respond to Hamas Atrocities
For the last several years, representatives of both our Free Enterprise Project (FEP) and our Project 21 black leadership network have warned corporations as well as the general public that if they wanted to support justice, racial equality and the ...
Scott Shepard: Bob Iger’s Diminished Disney: Time Shares, Betting Lines, and Inoffensive Retreads
In a commentary published at RealClearMarkets, Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard notes that Disney CEO Bob Iger has so abused Disney that its plans to save itself rely on helping people bet on amateur sports, hawking time shares and ...
How Much Influence Does the Human Rights Campaign Have On Disney Decisions?
The Walt Disney Company once seemed untouchable. But oh how the mighty Mouse is falling. With Disney profits plummeting, Free Enterprise Project Associate Stefan Padfield explores possible explanations, wading through the muddy swamp of Florida politics and finding a likely ...
Stefan Padfield: The ‘Hypothetical Conflict’ That May Be at the Root of Disney’s Woes
Disney is not doing well. As of July 22, the stock price has fallen 15 percent over the last year, while the S&P 500 is up almost 15 percent. That means Disney is down 30 percent compared to the broader ...
Bob Iger is Ruining Disney
Is Bob Iger purposefully trying to ruin Disney? He seems to be on a self-destructive mission. In a commentary at RealClearMarkets, Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard notes numerous ways the Disney CEO has driven his once-robust entertainment colossus into ...
Scott Shepard: Bob Iger’s Dark Disney Magic: A Wrecking Ball for Wokeness
Benjamin Franklin published a tract in London and Philadelphia in 1773 explaining the Rules by Which a Great Empire May be Reduced to a Small One. As good satire, it offered both humor and warning, but apparently the British no more ...
