Disney’s 21st-century acquisitions

Disney CEO Bob Iger’s $66.1 billion deal to buy film, TV and other assets of Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox will create the world’s biggest entertainment company with a market value of about $166bn

Deal value 
$5.3bn
Jul 2001: The Walt Disney Company acquires
Fox Family Worldwide

$7.4bn
Jan 2006: Pixar Animation Studios

$15.0m
Jun 2008: Ideal Bite

$3.8bn
Aug 2009: Marvel Entertainment

$763.2m
Jul 2010: Playdom 

$40.0m
Nov 2011: Babble
$454m
Feb 2012: UTV Software Communications
$4.05bn
Oct 2012: Lucasfilm 

$500m
Mar 2014: Maker Studios 

$1.58bn
Aug 2017: BAMTech

Mar 2005: Bob Iger (below) succeeds Michael Eisner as Chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company

Rupert Murdoch (below) Executive Chairman of News Corp and 21st Century Fox


$66.1 billion
Dec 2017: 21st Century Fox
Deal worth $52.4bn in stock, with Disney assuming $13.7bn of Fox’s net debt
Sources: CNBC, Crunchbase, Reuters Pictures: Associated Press
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