Shamrock Holdings

Shamrock Holdings

Shamrock Holdings is the firm founded as the Roy E. Disney family investment firm and the Disney family remains a key investor. Roy is its chairman, and Stanley Gold its President/CEO. Shamrock owns a number of assets including hotels and radio and television stations. In July 2006 one of Roy E. Disney's daughters, Abigail, became Vice Chairman of Shamrock. Shamrock is a private corporation, owned 100% by Roy E. Disney.

From 2003 to 2005, Shamrock was an instrumental force in the SaveDisney campaign and the ouster of Michael Eisner as CEO of The Walt Disney Company. [citeweb |url=http://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/s71903/shamrock032304.htm |title=Shamrock's Comments to SEC]

hares of Disney

According to Reuters, in 1984 Shamrock held 1,428,061 (or just over 4%) of all Disney stock. [citeweb |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F05E0D71738F931A25757C0A962948260&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fPeople%2fD%2fDisney%2c%20Roy%20E%2e |title=Shamrock holding 4.1% of Disney Stock, Reuters, April 12, 1984]

As of 2003 Roy E. Disney holds about 1% of Disney stock through Shamrock Holdings. This makes him the third largest individual stakeholder of Disney stock. [citeweb |url=http://www.mywire.com/pubs/USATODAY/2003/12/02/373895?extID=10051 |title=Shamrock holding 1% of Disney Stock, USA Today Article, Dec 2003]

References

External links

* [http://www.shamrock.com/ Shamrock Holdings Webpage]
* [http://www.shamrock.com/pages/domestic/domestic_media.asp Media Coverage of Shamrock Holdings]


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