Walt Disney Studios Motion PicturesBuena Vista International (Also known as Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International for Disney-branded films.) Buena Vista Theatres, Inc. (basically) El Capitan Entertainment Centre Disney Studio Store (Disney's Soda Fountain and Studio Store, collocated with a Ghirardelli Soda Fountain and Chocolate Shop in the El Capitan Building is next to the theater.) El Capitan TheatreHollywood Masonic Temple Buena Vista International Latin America Buena Vista International Brazil Patagonik Film Group (33.3%) Walt Disney Japan (Merging between Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Japan and Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment Japan on March 1, 2010. (Known as Walt Disney Studios Japan from March 1, 2010, to November 22, 2016.)) Walt Disney Studios Marketing Worldwide Special Events
Disney Music Publishing Agarita Music Buena Vista Music Co. Falferious Music Five Hundred South Songs Fuzzy Muppet Songs Holpic Music, Inc. Hollywood Pictures Music Pixar Music Pixar Talking Pictures Seven Peaks Music Seven Summits Music Touchstone Pictures Music & Songs, Inc. Utapau Music Mad Muppet Melodies Marvel Comics Music Vistaville Music Walt Disney Music Company Wampa-Tauntaun Music Wonderland Music Company
The Walt Disney Company Europe, Middle East and Africa
The Walt Disney Company Europe, Middle East & Africa (doing business as The Walt Disney Company Limited) is the largest international division of the Walt Disney Company, serving Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Its headquarters are located at 3 Queen Caroline Street, Hammersmith, West London, and have most of its locations, mostly in Europe.
The Walt Disney Company Europe, Middle East and Africa
Federally chartered credit union. The not-for-profit financial cooperative offers membership to employees and cast members of The Walt Disney Company and their family members.
Disneyland International, oversees Disney's interest in Tokyo Disney Resort. The WDC has taken full ownership of Euro Disneyland, opened on April 12, 1992, as the Euro Disney Resort, located in Marne-la-Vallée, near Paris, France. Disney owns 48% of Hong Kong International Theme Parks, while the Government of Hong Kong owns 52% of the shares.
Euro Disney S.C.A.: used to have 2% owned by public shareholders, directly owns 82% of Euro Disney Associés before 13 June 2017, since then it is a wholly owned subsidiary Euro Disney Associés S.C.A.: operating company of Disney Paris. EDL Hôtels S.C.A.: owns the Phase IB land and operates the hotels Euro Disney Commandité S.A.S.: a general partner of Euro Disney Associés EDL Services SAS: manages Phase IB Financing Companies, owners of the various hotels and Disney Village
Carousel Holdings EAT LLC, Carousel Inn & Suites, Anaheim, California
Axman Realty Corp.
Boss Realty, Inc.
Commercial Apartment Properties, Inc.
The Celebration Co.
Disney Keystone Properties, Inc.
Disney Realty, Inc.
Dutchman Realty, Inc.
The Dolphin Hotel, Inc.
Homestead Homes, Inc.
The Little Lake Bryan Co.
Maple Leaf Commercial Properties, Inc.
The Swan Hotel, Inc.
Walt Disney Properties Corp.
Buena Vista Street, Burbank CA Pine Woods Properties, Inc. Holmes Houses, Inc. Key Bridge Properties, Inc.
Florida properties Lake Bryan, Inc. Madeira Land Co., Inc. Magnolia Creek Development Co.
Financial
Arvida Disney Financial Services Inc. Arvida Real Estate Capital Inc., a commercial real estate investment banking subsidiary to arrange financing for commercial, industrial and retail projects
Venture capital
Steamboat Ventures: ownership positions not revealed
Inspector Gadget – Disney formerly owned the franchise as a whole during their limited partnership of DIC Entertainment from 1996 until 2000, before they sold DIC back to Andy Heyward. Disney also held international distribution to the original series outside North America through BVS Entertainment/Jetix Europe after their acquisition of Fox Family Worldwide in 2001, before selling it with 20 other DIC-owned programmes back to DIC in March 2006. Disney continues to hold the live-action film rights to the franchise through Walt Disney Pictures.
Talking Friends – Franchise holder Outfit7 Entertainment signed an exclusive deal with Disney in 2012 that allowed the company to produce and distribute certain media for the franchise. Among the media created as part of the limited license included a web-series from Disney Interactive, two songs from Walt Disney Records, a Disney Create - Photo Mashup game that was available on disney.go.com/create, as well as a concert event featuring Radio Disney DJs to promote the Talking Friends Superstars toyline. The deal, however, did not include the original apps, characters, nor merchandising rights.
Former assets
Dormant or shuttered
The following companies or units are subsidiaries of Disney that are either no longer active or have been absorbed into another part of the company.
Anaheim Sports, Inc. - Formerly Disney Sports Enterprises, Inc.
Arena Football League - ESPN bought a minority share of the league in December 2006; the league ceased operations in July 2009. The AFL was revived in 2010, but is a separate legal entity from the original, with no Disney ownership.
Black Rock Studio - formerly known as Climax Racing; acquired by Disney Interactive Studios (formerly Buena Vista Games) on September 28, 2006; closed on June 30, 2011.
Blip Networks, Inc.: Acquired by Maker Studios (Now Disney Digital Network) in August 2013. Shut down in August 2015.
SIP Animation (formerly Saban International Paris): Disney acquired Saban's 49.6% minority stake in 2001 and renamed the company in 2002. All remaining shares were transferred to BVS Entertainment in 2012, and SIP was shut down completely in October 2023, after being dormant since 2009. Trademark and intellectual property transactions were handled by BVS International N.V. after 2002.
Libra Pictures / Libra Home Entertainment: Saban's adult-oriented television/direct-to-video film production unit. The trademark rights were taken over by Disney and its operations were terminated in 2001.
Jetix Europe, N.V. (formerly Fox Kids Europe): 73% acquired with Fox Family Worldwide, Inc., full ownership obtained in 2009; ran 13 Jetix channels. GXT: Italian channel for older teens sold in the management buyout of Jetix Italy, closed in late 2014. K-2: Syndicated Italian block also sold in the management buyout of Jetix Italy. Jetix Consumer Products: Formerly Saban Consumer Products and Active Licensing Europe. Jetix España S.L.: Joint venture with Sogecable S.A. to operate Jetix Spain. Jetix Play: A pay TV channel broadcasting in Eastern Europe, rebranded as Playhouse Disney in 2010 and Disney Junior in 2011. Jetix Poland Limited: Minority owner; a subsidiary of United Pan-Europe Communications N.V. TV10 B.V.: Joint venture with SBS Broadcasting B.V. operating the Dutch Jetix channel
Cal Publishing: Cal Publishing was a subsidiary created by Disney to acquire the assets of CrossGen. After the acquisition, both companies were folded into Disney Publishing Worldwide. Disney subsidiary Marvel Comics has since tried to revive CrossGen as an imprint.
Disney Digital Network Revelmode: Sub-network of Maker Studios/Disney Digital Network. Shut down after PewDiePie was dropped because of anti-semitic jokes made on his channel.
Disney TeleVentures, Inc.: Americast telco venture programming and technical support
Disney Television and Telecommunications, division group (not to be confused with Walt Disney Television production division) eliminated after Disney-CC/ABC merger
Hollywood Basic: Sub-label of Hollywood Records that released rap music (including music by DJ Shadow and Organized Konfusion). The label was discontinued in the mid-1990s.
Hollywood Pictures: Film label of The Walt Disney Studios created in 1989 and shuttered in 2007.
MLG Productions 1 – MLG Productions 8: (Marvel's joint venture with Lionsgate) operationally defunct as the agreed-upon number of DTV movies were finished.
Star Premium - Closed on February 1, 2022 in Latin America and on March 31, 2022 in Brazil
Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser - Closed on September 30, 2023
Starwave: Starwave was merged with Infoseek and acquired by Disney in 1998 to form GO Network. Starwave no longer operates as a stand-alone business. The label was recently resurrected to form Disney's Starwave Mobile which licenses content from third-party companies for cell phone content.
UTV Software Communications - Merged with Disney Star in 2020. UTV Communications (USA) LLC UTV Motion Pictures - Closed in 2017. UTV Action - Closed on March 15, 2023 UTV Movies - Closed on March 15, 2023. UTV HD - Closed on March 15, 2023. IG Interactive Entertainment Ltd. - Closed in 2012. UTV Global Broadcasting Ltd. UTV Games Ltd. - Closed in 2015. UTV Indiagames - Closed in 2015. UTV Ignition Games - Closed in 2012. UTV Toons
ABC Radio Networks, a radio network, along with ABC's non-radio Disney and ESPN stations sold to Citadel Broadcasting with the network renamed as Citadel Media, and later sold to Cumulus Media and renamed as Cumulus Media Networks before being merged into Westwood One.
Childcraft Education Corp., maker of children's furniture and equipment, retail stores and sold to U.S. Office Products Co. in 1997 Childcraft, Inc.: catalog company
Debmar Studios - Company held minority stake upon foundation in 1993, folded into Buena Vista Television in 1994, reestablished by company founder Mort Marcus in 2002
DIC Entertainment - Acquired as part of CC/ABC purchase in November 1996, sold back to original owner in November 2000.
DreamWorks Pictures DreamWorks II Distribution Co. LLC, film rights acquired from DreamWorks and Reliance. DreamWorks Home Entertainment DreamWorks Television (1994-2002): Joint venture of CC/ABC with DreamWorks which was dissolved at the end of the seven-year agreement Go Fish Pictures – indie film label, shut down in 2007. DreamWorks Distribution, LLC – theatrical distribution arm of DreamWorks Pictures and DreamWorks Animation DW Funding LLC – library holder of live-action DreamWorks films
E!: part owner, 39.5% share sold back to Comcast in 2006, in 2025, spun off to a new publicly traded company called Versant to be completed in 2026. Style Network
Oxygen Media: minority stake spun off, became independent, later sold to NBCUniversal in 2007 and became a division until spun off to Versant in 2026.
Power Rangers and related properties - Sold back to Haim Saban in 2010, Saban held the rights until selling them to Hasbro in 2018. Disney still owns the old Saban back-catalog though.
RTL Disney Fernsehen GmbH & Co KG (50/50 joint-venture with RTL Group) - Stake purchased out in March 2021 Kividoo subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service Scoyo Super RTL Toggolino Club Toggo Plus timeshift service Toggo Radio