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This excerpt taken from the DIS DEF 14A filed Jan 22, 2010. Certain Relationships and Related Person Transactions The Board of Directors has adopted a written policy for review of transactions involving more than $120,000 in any fiscal year in which the Company is a participant and in which any Director, executive officer, holder of more than 5% of our outstanding shares or any immediate family member of any of these persons has a direct or indirect material interest. Directors, 5% shareholders and executive officers are required to inform the Company of any such transaction promptly after they become aware of it, and the Company collects information from Directors and executive officers about their affiliations and affiliations of their family members so the Company can search its
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Table of ContentsThe Walt Disney Company Notice of 2010 Annual Meeting and Proxy Statement
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Table of ContentsThe Walt Disney Company Notice of 2010 Annual Meeting and Proxy Statement
This excerpt taken from the DIS DEF 14A filed Jan 16, 2009. Certain Relationships and Related Person Transactions The Board of Directors has adopted a written policy for review of transactions involving more than $120,000 in any fiscal year in which the Company is a participant and in which any Director, executive officer, holder of more than 5% of our outstanding shares or any immediate family member of any of these persons has a direct or indirect material interest. Directors, 5% shareholders and executive officers are required to inform the Company of any such transaction promptly after they become aware of it, and the Company collects information from Directors and executive officers about their affiliations and affiliations of their family members so the Company can search its records for any such transactions. Transactions are presented to the Governance and Nominating Committee of the Board (or to the Chairman of the Committee if the Committee delegates this responsibility) for approval before they are entered into or, if this is not possible, for ratification after the transaction has been entered into. The Committee approves or ratifies a transaction if it determines that the transaction is consistent with the best interests of the Company, including whether the transaction impairs independence of a Director. The policy does not require review of the following transactions: Employment of executive officers approved by the Compensation Committee; Compensation of Directors approved by the Board;
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Table of ContentsThe Walt Disney Company Notice of 2009 Annual Meeting and Proxy Statement
This excerpt taken from the DIS DEF 14A filed Jan 11, 2008. Certain Relationships and Related Person Transactions The Board of Directors has adopted a written policy for review of transactions involving more than $120,000 in any fiscal year in which the Company is a participant and in which any Director, executive officer, holder of more than 5% of our outstanding shares or any immediate family member of any of these persons has a direct or indirect material interest. Directors, 5% shareholders and executive officers are required to inform the Company of any such transaction promptly after they become aware of it, and the Company collects information from Directors and executive officers about their affiliations and affiliations of their family members so the Company can search its records for any such transactions. Transactions are presented to the Governance and Nominating Committee of the Board (or to the Chairman of the Committee if the Committee delegates this responsibility) for approval before they are entered into or, if this is not
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Table of ContentsThe Walt Disney Company Notice of 2008 Annual Meeting and Proxy Statement
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Table of ContentsThe Walt Disney Company Notice of 2008 Annual Meeting and Proxy Statement
This excerpt taken from the DIS DEF 14A filed Jan 12, 2007. Certain Relationships and Related Person Transactions Director John Brysons wife, Louise Bryson, serves as PresidentDistribution and Affiliate Business Development for Lifetime Entertainment Television, a cable television programming service in which the Company has an indirect 50% equity interest. Ms. Bryson received an aggregate salary (including car allowance and payments of deferred compensation) of $585,243 for her services with Lifetime during fiscal 2006 and received a bonus of $647,328 in fiscal 2006 with respect to her services in fiscal 2005. She is also eligible for an annual bonus for fiscal 2006, although as of December 31, 2006, no bonus determination for 2006 had been made by Lifetime with respect to Ms. Bryson. By agreement among the Company, Lifetime and Lifetimes other equity owner, The Hearst Corporation, neither the Company nor any of its employees or affiliates participates in any decision making at Lifetime with respect to Ms. Brysons performance or compensation. In addition, as noted above, Lifetime acquired programming and purchased advertising time from, and sold advertising time to, Company subsidiaries, but the Company believes that neither Mr. Bryson nor Ms. Bryson had a material direct or indirect interest in those transactions. Company President and Chief Executive Officer and Director Robert Igers father-in-law, Eugene Bay, is a principal of Eugene Bay Associates, Inc., a marketing company that has been retained by the Companys subsidiary ESPN, Inc. since 1990 (prior to Mr. Igers marriage to Mr. Bays daughter) to provide sports marketing services. Mr. Bays company received a total of $110,908 for services provided during fiscal 2006.
On May 5, 2006, the Company completed the acquisition of Pixar, of which Mr. Jobs was Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and a holder of 50.6% of the outstanding shares, in exchange for the issuance of approximately 279 million shares of Company common stock and the conversion of previously issued equity awards into approximately 45 million Disney equity awards. As a shareholder of Pixar, Mr. Jobs received 138,000,004 shares of Company common stock, which was his pro rata portion of the shares issued in the transaction. Prior to the acquisition of Pixar, the Company and Pixar were parties to a Co-Production Agreement entered into on February 24, 1997. Under the Co- Production Agreement, the Company and Pixar agreed to co-finance the production costs of the animated films covered by the Co-Production Agreement, co-own the films (with the Company having exclusive distribution and exploitation rights), co-brand the films and share equally in the profits of the films and any related merchandise and other ancillary products, after recovery of all marketing and distribution costs (which were financed by the Company), a distribution fee paid to the Company and any other fees or costs, including any third-party participations. The Co-Production Agreement generally provided that Pixar was responsible for the production of such films and that the Company was responsible for the marketing, promotion, publicity, advertising and distribution of such films. The Co-Production Agreement was due to terminate in 2006 but the Company and Pixar entered into a Distribution Letter Agreement on January 27, 2006 to extend the Co-Production Agreement to cover an additional film. The Co-Production Agreement and the Distribution Agreement have now been superseded as a result of the Companys acquisition of Pixar. Ancillary to the Co-Production Agreement, the Company also made payments to Pixar for licensing Pixars intellectual property and for creative assistance in connection with consumer product designs. As disclosed in Pixars annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005, for Pixars fiscal years 2003, 2004, and
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Table of ContentsThe Walt Disney Company Notice of 2007 Annual Meeting and Proxy Statement
2005, the Company accounted for approximately 94%, 90%, and 93% respectively of Pixars total revenue of approximately $262.5 million, $273.5 million and $289.1 million, respectively. | EXCERPTS ON THIS PAGE:
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