The Walt Disney Company Italy

The Walt Disney Company Italia S.r.l.
Disney Italy
FormerlyCreazioni Walt Disney S.A.I.
The Walt Disney Company Italia S.p.A.
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryMedia conglomerate
Founded8 May 1938 (1938-05-08)
Headquarters,
Italy
Area served
Italy
Key people
Daniel Frigo
Number of employees
550
ParentThe Walt Disney Company EMEA
(Disney Entertainment)
DivisionsWalt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Italia
Disney Interactive Media Group Italia
Disney Publishing Worldwide Italia (joint-venture with Giunti Editore)
Disney Consumer Products Italy
Walt Disney Television Italia
WebsiteDisney.it

The Walt Disney Company Italia S.r.l. (also Disney Italia; formerly called The Walt Disney Company Italia S.p.A.) is The Walt Disney Company's Italian division and one of The Walt Disney Company's European divisions. The company was founded on 8 May 1938 as Creazioni Walt Disney S.A.I. It is headquartered in Milan.[1]

The television division of the company has produced TV series for Disney Channel Italy. From 1988 to 2013, Disney Italia published digest size comics magazines featuring Disney characters which until then were licensed to Mondadori.[a][2]

  1. ^ "Stock exchanges publishing for Disney Italy". C21media. 9 January 2005. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
  2. ^ Decleva, Enrico (2007). Arnoldo Mondadori. Turin: UTET. pp. 236–237. ISBN 978-8802076737.


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