Detailed SWOT Aniket Part Strength

Strong cash flow and dividend payments to investors (ANIKET)

Disney has a Strong Cash Flow along with a first-rate balance sheet (Financial Strength: A++), allows the company to pay a modest dividend and also be active on the stock-buyback. It also supports Mergers and acquisitions pursuits.(REF-Annual Report 2012) Weakness
Disney Interactive making a loss of $308m in year 2012(compared to $234m 2010) (ANIKET) + they target wrong market segment (Kingdom of Playdom) (ANIKET) (REF-Annual Report 2012) Interactive Losses: The interactive business has operated in the red over the past several years, mainly because of weak video game sales and a failure of social network gaming to take off. Still, management expects the unit to turn profitable shortly, and has high hopes for a new Infinity platform that lets animated Disney and Pixar characters be synthesized into the gaming experience.

Opportunites

1. Expansion into mobile apps facilitated by technology and social development(aniket) 2. Increasing impact of music industry potential to.???? (aniket) 3. Interactive: potential to develop in Japan (the only profitable country) ANIKETNUMBERS 4. Because of good cashflow, Disney can integrate - Horizontally : Nintendo, The Sesame Street, Lego (ANIKET) - Vertically: Kosta to research (dreamworks) +minimajor studios to acquire (lionsgate, MGM) 5. Middle East emerging economies Aniket. 6. Expansion of movie production to new countries. Disney

has an opportunity to expand its movie production to such countries as India or China, where movie production industries have developed good quality infrastructure. This would result in lower movie production costs and more localized movies for India and Chinas markets.

Threat

1. Paramount becoming independent in distribution; Disney depends on dreamworks (aniket) Disney counts on gaining a large proportion of the young audience partly through its often very well-received animated films. Viacom owner of Paramount, is exiting its distribution arrangement with DreamWorks Animation and plans to launch an internal animated studio in 2014. The first film, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 2, is scheduled for that year. Viacom has access to characters through its Nickelodeon unit and should thus gain on Disney a bit. That said, its previous forays into full-length animation, namely Rango in 2011, have been lukewarm and Disney should still have a sizable edge. Another rising threat to Disneys feature animation dominance is the newly developed Paramount Animation. This company was recently announced in 2011 after DreamWorks left Paramount for 20th Century Fox. Paramount Animations first feature, The Spongebob Squarepants Movie 2, is set to be released in 2014. Though Disney has an incredibly strong brand and consumer loyalty, they should still be weary of Paramounts newest production affiliate Brand name,diversidfed product portfolio,copy right,creativitiy/rd,cash,