In the company of the children of his friends, however, Dodgson found emotional respite as well as an appreciative audience for his literary whimsey, and his stutter would lessen appreciably. The man who was described by one of his illustrators as"an interesting but erratic genius,"and by anot...
With the difficulties of the previous year still fresh in their minds, the Weinsteins continued to look for the greater stability that outside funding would bring. After sitting down for talks with Paramount, they surprised industry observers by selling Miramax to the Walt Disney Company in 1993 ...
By 1889, Edison had consolidated all of his companies under the name of Edison General Electric Company. Three years later, in 1892, this company was merged with the Thomson-Houston Electric Company to form the General Electric Company. Although this merger was the turning point in the electrifi...
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The success of its Kliban cat calendars led the company to create calendars with other themes, and in 1979 the Page-A-Day desk calendar debuted, with 365 tear-off pages, each with a different image. Workman was the first to market a whimsical calendar of this type, and it was received ...
Over the years the company, which is owned by the Sperber family, developed a reputation for being able to handle big contracts on schedule. National contracts have included Walt Disney Co.'s Animal Kingdom in Orlando, Florida; the Getty Museum in Los Angeles; the Mercedes-Benz corporate ...
Saddled with debt, the company was forced to sell its four SeaWorld parks and another park, Cypress Gardens in Winter Haven, Florida. A bidding war for Harcourt Brace's park assets began in 1989. Among the interested suitors were MCA, Inc. and Walt Disney Co., but Busch Entertainment ...
That same year the company entered into its first licensing agreement. In a deal with The Walt Disney Company, Lifetime obtained the right to develop and market a line of Disney flatware and a line of kitchen gadgets under the Chef Mickey name. After some ups and downs, the two companies...
Principal Competitors: AOL Time Warner Inc.; Viacom Inc.; Walt Disney Company.ChronologyKey Dates: 1984: GoodTimes Home Video is formed. 1986: The company enters into a licensing deal with Hearst Corporation. 1992: The company begins production of original animation titles. 1993: The holding ...
Investors seemed to excuse the company's poor finances, because eToys was building a market for itself. The toy industry in total had sales of $22 billion a year, and eToys was the first to take aim at this huge market from the Internet. Estimated total revenues from on-line toy sales ...