BENNETT YIM

1 South China Morning Post (5 February 2006) “Disney Chief Chokes on His Words, But Gets out an Apology”.
2 Ibid.

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3In the original plan, the first year attendance figure was set at 5.2 million. The figure was scaled up to 5.6 million in the course of
development.

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4 Ming Pao (2 February 2006) “Disney left 1,000 customers stranded at gate as park reached full capacity”.

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5 South China Morning Post (2 February 2006) “Come back another day, visitors told”.

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6 Walt Disney’s dedication of Disneyland, retrieved from Disneyland Magic website, http://www.disneylandmagic.com
7 Capodagli, B. and Jackson, L. (1999) The Disney Way : Harnessing the Management Secrets of Disney in Your Company, McGraw-
Hill Professional: New York, p. 194.
8 Euro Disney S.C.A., “Share Prospectus”.
9 Bryman, A. (1995) Disney and His Worlds, Taylor and Francis: New York, p. 99.

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10 Capodagli, B. and Jackson, L. (1999) The Disney Way: Harnessing the Management Secrets of Disney in Your Company, McGraw-
Hill Professional: New York, p. 55.
11 Wasako, J. (2001) Understanding Disney: The Manufacture of Fantasy, Polity Press: Cambridge, p. 92.
12 Ibid.
13 Disney Institute, www.disneyinstitute.com.

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14Disneyland Paris’ original capital structure was roughly 80% debt and 20% equity, a practice (leveraged capital structures) which
was more common back in the mid- to late 1980s, a comment made by Disneyland Paris’ CFO, Jeffrey Speed, in “Mickey’s Malaise”,
July 2005, CFO Eruope.com.

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15 Wasako, J. Understanding Disney: the Manufacture of Fantasy, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2001, p. 93

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