Darkbeer
08-14-2005, 11:26 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/15/business/media/15iger.html
QuikQuote: And in July Mr. Iger negotiated a truce with Roy E. Disney, a dissident former board member and nephew of Walt Disney, who helped lead a shareholder uprising last year that diminished Mr. Eisner's power and led in part to his decision to retire.
"If anyone had a list of things for Bob to do right away it would be these; figuring out the Roy thing and, at the end of the day, seeing that Pixar (http://www.nytimes.com/redirect/marketwatch/redirect.ctx?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&symb=PIXR) and Disney should be partners," said Lawrence J. Haverty, associate portfolio manager of the Gabelli Global Multimedia Trust (http://www.nytimes.com/redirect/marketwatch/redirect.ctx?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&symb=GGT) and an investor in Disney stock. "What Bob has to do now is execute the obvious, brilliantly."
QuikQuote: And in July Mr. Iger negotiated a truce with Roy E. Disney, a dissident former board member and nephew of Walt Disney, who helped lead a shareholder uprising last year that diminished Mr. Eisner's power and led in part to his decision to retire.
"If anyone had a list of things for Bob to do right away it would be these; figuring out the Roy thing and, at the end of the day, seeing that Pixar (http://www.nytimes.com/redirect/marketwatch/redirect.ctx?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&symb=PIXR) and Disney should be partners," said Lawrence J. Haverty, associate portfolio manager of the Gabelli Global Multimedia Trust (http://www.nytimes.com/redirect/marketwatch/redirect.ctx?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&symb=GGT) and an investor in Disney stock. "What Bob has to do now is execute the obvious, brilliantly."