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Disney's new boss for consumer products commercialization, Asia Pacific

The Walt Disney Company has announced Mahesh Samat will be its executive vice president of consumer products commercialization for the Asia Pacific region.

Beauty and the Backlash: Walt Disney's modern princess problem

The executives had spent years cultivating Ariel, Elsa and Snow White as highly profitable models of femininity

Mickey Mouse turns 90, and the Disney marketing machine celebrates

The Walt Disney Company will celebrate Mickey Mouse's birthday with a prime-time ABC special on Sunday

Disney's China puzzle unsolved as another 'Star Wars' film flops

China, on track to overtake the US in movie ticket sales by 2020, is an important market for Hollywood films

Walt Disney gives CEO Bob Iger $36.3 mn pay before big 2018 package

Iger, 66, received a $15.2 million cash bonus tied to results including segment operating income and return on invested capital

Disney boosts stake in Paris theme park, offers to buy rest

Disney said it will support Euro Disney's recapitalisation of as much as 1.5 billion euros

Disney faces PR crisis, risk of legal action after alligator attack

An alligator had snatched and killed a toddler at the Walt Disney World resort in Orlando, Florida

Disney vows to take action against park

Walt Disney said it's prepared to take action to protect its intellectual property rights after performers dressed as Snow White and Captain America were sighted at Dalian Wanda Group Co's new theme park and entertainment complex in China. "We vigorously protect our intellectual property and will take action to address infringement," the company said in an e-mailed statement on Monday in response to Bloomberg News queries about the characters, who resembled the Disney ones, that were on display at Wanda's park over the weekend. "Our characters and stories have delighted generations, these illegal and substandard imitations unfortunately disappoint all who expect more." Billionaire Wang Jianlin on Saturday officially opened the Wanda City park in Nanchang, the first of his conglomerate's 15 planned theme park and entertainment projects in China that it hopes will help it unseat Disney as the world's largest tourism operator.Just over a week ago, Wang publicly challenged the Burbank, Cal

Disney guests get a preview of Shanghai park ahead of June opening

Disney is planning a three-day event to mark the opening of its newest park next month