Disney
The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise with five business segments: media networks, parks and resorts, studio entertainment, consumer products and interactive media.
New Venture Fund Aims to Rapidly Scale Ethical Supply Chain Technologies
On January 30th, Humanity United, a California-based foundation and leader in supply chain advocacy, announced the launch of a $23 million venture fund to invest in ethical supply chain innovations. The Working Capital Fund is unique in that it will ... View More
Disney Recognized for Innovation on Workplace Equality
Profiles in Diversity Journal recently recognized Disney with a 2017 Top 10 Innovations in Diversity & Inclusion Award, which honors corporations, organizations and institutions that have developed innovative solutions in the area of workforce di... View More
Disney Recognized for Supplier Diversity Efforts
Disney’s commitment to supplier diversity helps teams find innovative, cost-effective and high-quality solutions that help its businesses achieve business goals. As part of the Sourcing and Procurement organization, the Supplier Diversity team prom... View More
Disney Commits $1.5 Million to Hispanic Scholarship Fund
The Walt Disney Company has announced a $1.5 million commitment to continue its scholarship program with the Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF). The Walt Disney Company-HSF Scholarship Fund, established in 2014 with a $1 million grant from Disney, is pa... View More
Businesses Band Together to Provide Relief to Communities Hit Hardest by Harvey
Hurricane Harvey, the strongest storm to hit Texas and Louisiana in decades, has left a wake of destruction in its path. More than 30,000 people have been driven into shelters and the storm’s aftermath has left behind some estimated tens of billion... View More
Disney Campaigns Recognized at Halo Awards
Disney's Hour of Code tutorials, created in close collaboration with code.org, aim to inspire children of all ages to learn the basics of coding in a fun and engaging way. Since 2014, more than 42 million students in over 180 countries have tried a D... View More
Disney Debuts #DreamBigPrincess Photography Campaign
A 19-year-old university student who published a children’s coding book to inspire more girls to pursue STEM fields… One of the first indigenous Samburu women elephant keepers in Africa, who works to help elephant orphans return to their natural ... View More
Business Has Much to Do If It Wants to Be a Climate Leader
If there’s one group that’s basking in the long shadow cast by Donald Trump’s ill-fated decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord, it’s business. ... View More
Disney Promotes Workplace Equality at London Workshop
The first-ever international Equality Institute promoting LGBT workplace equality in London was held July 6 and led by The Walt Disney Company, Out & Equal Workplace Advocates and Sodexo. More than 200 representatives from 100 companies in the U.... View More
Consumer Goods Forum Shares Best Practices to Eradicate Forced Labor from Global Supply Chains
In a bid to eradicate forced labor in global supply chains, a problem that affects 21 million people worldwide, The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) has released a new report, Business Actions Against Forced Labor, highlighting best practices in tackling t... View More
Not All of US: Response to Trump Administration's Decision to Withdraw from Paris Agreement
While telegraphed for days and choreographed down to the military band playing soft jazz in the background before the announcement, President Trump’s June 01, 2017 declaration that the U.S. will pull out of the Paris Agreement still jarred and dism... View More
CEOs of 30 More Major US Brands Pen Letter to Trump, Urging Adherence to Paris Agreement
Top brands continue to make their voices heard in the days leading up to the G7 Summit in Italy, with the release of yet another letter urging President Trump and the administration to deliver on its climate commitments. ... View More
SB Corporate Members Named As CR's 100 Best Corporate Citizens
Sustainable Brands Corporate Members Hasbro, Campbell Soup Co, and Cisco Systems have been ranked in the top ten of CR's Best Corporate CItizens List. Other corporate members on the list include Kimberly-Clark, AT&T, PepsiCo, CVS, Disney, 3M, Pro... View More
Disney Brings Conservation Efforts in Peru to U.S. Parks and Resorts
Since its earliest days, The Walt Disney Company has been committed to protecting the environment and conserving the planet for generations to come. As part of that legacy, Disney has set environmental stewardship targets and is striving toward the g... View More
Disney Thought ‘Outside the Box’ for Its New Moana Doll, Challenges Families to Do the Same
Disney is inspiring fans to think outside the toy box and help protect the planet in celebration of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Moana.” Inspired by the Disney Store’s new Classic Moana doll box, which can be turned into a boat inspired by... View More
Disney, Dole Launch Character-Clad Produce to Promote Healthy Eating
Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media (DCPI) and Dole Food Company have announced a co-branded assortment of fresh fruits and vegetables featuring iconic Disney, Pixar, Star Wars, and Marvel characters. ... View More
Disney Buys Up Carbon Credits in Mondulkiri, Cambodia
The Walt Disney Company has purchased $2.6 million in carbon credits in the forests of Mondulkuri province – marking the largest carbon credit sale to date in Cambodia and breathing life into a carbon-trading program many had written off as all but... View More
Disney, Darden, Orlando Magic Among Donors to New City Fund for Shooting Victims, Others
A new fundraising effort by the city of Orlando for victims of the terror attack on Pulse nightclub near downtown has already attracted big-name donors like Walt Disney Co. and JetBlue Airways. The city created the new OneOrlando Fund, which will su... View More
Disney Cruise Line regains A grade for pollution transparency
Friends of the Earth released the 2016 edition of its Cruise Ship Report Card today, documenting the environmental footprint of the cruise industry and grading 17 cruise lines and their 171 ships. The report card, last released in 2014, shows an ongo... View More
Recyclebank Collaborates with Disney to Share the Magic of Conservation
Recyclebank, the Marketing-as-a-Service (MaaS) company that helps cities and brands encourage residents and consumers to make more sustainable purchasing and disposal habits, announced today its collaboration with Disney on “The Magic of Conservati... View More
