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- Marvel-ous Future For Disney?
- In the works for roughly three months, the Disney (NYSE: DIS) deal to acquire Marvel Entertainment (NYSE: MVL) has analysts fretting about premiums—and comics fans freaking about a future of Captain America Meets Tinkerbell. We’re likely months away from a close or from anything that might affect the Marvel...
- External links 2009-09-01
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- Marvel's elusive 'Ike' is key character
- Isaac "Ike" Perlmutter, Manhattan's newest billionaire, was keeping a low profile on Tuesday in the wake of Walt Disney's $4bn deal to buy Marvel Entertainment, the comic book publisher he has overseen for the past 12 years. It was not out of character for the notoriously shy Mr Perlmutter to...
- News items 2009-09-01
- Spider-Man Meets Mickey Mouse: Disney Buying Marvel For $4 Billion In Stock, Cash
- The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) is buying Marvel Entertainment (NYSE: MVL) and its 5,000-character roster for a cool $4 billion in stock and cash. The deal, which would help Disney expand its appeal to boys, was announced before the market opened Monday; it’s one of the largest acquisitions...
- External links 2009-08-31
- Interview: Disney CFO Tom Staggs: 'Chance To Take Marvel To New Level'
- The shockwaves from this morning’s news that the Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) is buying Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion had barely started when we got on the phone with Disney CFO Tom Staggs, who told paidContent he expects the deal to pay for itself from day one: “We’ve...
- External links 2009-08-31
- Disney's Superhero Bid for Elusive Young Males
- Walt Disney's willingness to pay $4 billion to bring action heroes like the Hulk and X-Men into its pristine Magic Kingdom is a great example of the do-what-you-have to-to-do mindset in the new media market. After years of failing to attract young males to its creative cause, Disney is just...
- Blog posts 2009-09-01
- BREAKING: Disney to Acquire Marvel for $4 Billion
- The Walt Disney Company has announced it will acquire Marvel Entertainment, Inc. in a stock and cash transaction worth 4 billion dollars. Disney will pay Marvel shareholders a $30 per share, plus approximately 0.745 Disney shares for each Marvel share they own, based on the closing price of Disney on...
- News items 2009-08-31
- Disney to buy Marvel for $4bn
- Walt Disney on Monday unveiled a surprise $4bn bid for Marvel Entertainment, ending a deal-making drought in the media sector and paving the way for Iron Man, Spider-Man and Captain America to be united with Mickey Mouse and Hannah Montana. The agreed deal is structured as a cash and stock...
- News items 2009-08-31
- Disney plans to strike with Marvel muscle
- With a stable of brands and characters that includes Hannah Montana and Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney has always had most of the bases covered when it comes to targeting its products at children. But the one demographic in which it has not been so strong is teenage boys. That changes...
- News items 2009-08-31
- Walt Disney to buy Marvel for $US4bn
- UPDATE: Nat Worden | September 01, 2009 MICKEY Mouse, meet the X-Men. Walt Disney has agreed to buy Marvel Entertainment for about $US4 billion ($4.7 billion). Deal: Christopher Loomis wears a Spider-Man costume on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. Picture: Bloomberg Disney's move on Marvel, the creator...
- News items 2009-08-31
- Disney's wonderful world of Marvel
- LOS ANGELES Fortune -- The acquisition of Marvel Entertainment by the Walt Disney Co. is, on a surface level, a perfect, if expensive, fit. But it also represents an interesting evolution in the company's direction under CEO Bob Iger. Under the deal, announced this morning, Disney (DIS, Fortune 500) will...
- News items 2009-08-31
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