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Adam Maguire

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
517 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Today with David McCullagh
The importance of Disneyland to Disney

I should say it also includes retail, so Disney shops and consumer products, which is the merchandising.

Today with David McCullagh
The importance of Disneyland to Disney

And last year, they actually, their year, their business year runs up to the end of September 2035.

Today with David McCullagh
The importance of Disneyland to Disney

You can see the company as a whole had revenues of just over $94.4 billion.

Today with David McCullagh
The importance of Disneyland to Disney

Huge money.

Today with David McCullagh
The importance of Disneyland to Disney

So within that, sports had revenues of 17.7, so that's the smallest segment.

Today with David McCullagh
The importance of Disneyland to Disney

Entertainment took in $42.5 billion and then experiences had $36.1 billion.

Today with David McCullagh
The importance of Disneyland to Disney

So from that alone, you can see how big experiences is, although it looks like the movie business is bigger and it is in terms of revenue.

Today with David McCullagh
The importance of Disneyland to Disney

But when you look at the profits, you see the total operating profit last year was $17.5 billion.

Today with David McCullagh
The importance of Disneyland to Disney

Again, huge money.

Today with David McCullagh
The importance of Disneyland to Disney

Sports made up $2.9 billion of that.

Today with David McCullagh
The importance of Disneyland to Disney

Entertainment made just under $4.7 billion.

Today with David McCullagh
The importance of Disneyland to Disney

And then experiences accounted for almost 10 billion.

Today with David McCullagh
The importance of Disneyland to Disney

Oh, that's some profit margin.

Today with David McCullagh
The importance of Disneyland to Disney

So yeah, massive profit margin.

Today with David McCullagh
The importance of Disneyland to Disney

It's more than double the next nearest segment.

Today with David McCullagh
The importance of Disneyland to Disney

In fact, you know, experiences makes up 57% of Disney's total profits.

Today with David McCullagh
The importance of Disneyland to Disney

Now, I did mention consumer products as part of that segment.

Today with David McCullagh
The importance of Disneyland to Disney

But even when you take that section out, so that represents about $2.18 billion of profit.

Today with David McCullagh
The importance of Disneyland to Disney

So even when you take that away, experiences is still the biggest profit maker for Disney.

Today with David McCullagh
The importance of Disneyland to Disney

And when you see that, you realise that the movies and TV shows are important in their own right, but really they function as a kind of a flag and a hook to get consumers into the Disney brand to convince them then to go along to Disneyland.