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News Disney Earns Spot on TIME's List of 250 Most Iconic American Companies

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wdwfan4ver

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WDWhopper said:
What a stupid story and I’m surprised it was even posted. Of course Disney is one of the Top 250 most iconic companies in America. I would say it’s probably top 10 or even top 5.
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Time ranked Disney number 11.
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America's Most Iconic Companies

TIME and Statista have named the 250 most iconic American companies
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The companies ahead of Disney are the following:
  1. Ford Motor Company
  2. Apple
  3. The Coca Cola Company
  4. Walmart
  5. Amazon
  6. Mcdonald's
  7. General Motors
  8. Microsoft
  9. Google
  10. Nike
 
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wdwfan4ver

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I'm not a bit surprise Disney is this high and I can't argue Disney being this high. I also can't argue against the 10 companies ahead of Disney.

Disney has an extremely rich reputation in the Entertainment business.
 
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wdwfan4ver

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Chi84 said:
None of the other 10 are entertainment.
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I'm aware of that, but Microsoft does have some characteristics of a entertainment company despite being labeled as big tech. Some of the products Microsoft has does involve entertainment, but some don't.

Microsoft as a company has been involved gaming since the 1980s. Microsoft in the 1980s and 1990s released computer products including computer games such as Flight simulator.

Also Microsoft has been in the video industry as a game console maker since 2001. Microsoft owns companies that makes video games including Halo. Video games is a form of entertainment like it or not and Microsoft is one of the big names in that industry although I question how much longer from a sales standpoint.
 
Chi84

Chi84

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wdwfan4ver said:
I'm aware of that, but Microsoft does have some characteristics of a entertainment company despite being labeled as big tech. Some of the products Microsoft has does involve entertainment, but some don't.

Microsoft as a company has been involved gaming since the 1980s. Microsoft in the 1980s and 1990s released computer products including computer games such as Flight simulator.

Also Microsoft has been in the video industry as a game console maker since 2001. Microsoft owns companies that makes video games including Halo. Video games is a form of entertainment like it or not and Microsoft is one of the big names in that industry although I question how much longer from a sales standpoint.
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I meant “primarily” entertainment. Amazon and Microsoft don’t fall into that category.
 
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Comped

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Andrew C said:
Looked at the middle of the list and was laughing at some of the choices for where certain companies are ranked.
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Oracle at 13? Cisco at 16? The Children's Place (former owner of the Disney Store to boot) at 21? What even is MyFitnessPal, and how is it somehow more important to the US than ESPN, Harley, Netflix, or AT&T? Publix ranks above Tiffany and Mattel ? Somehow a regional chain of grocery stores is more iconically American than Barbie? IBM is somehow only 95? Bath & Body Works ranks above Macy's, the store so iconic in American culture there's dozens of films which feature just its flagship in NYC (not to mention the parade on Thanksgiving)? NBC ranks below Whirlpool, the washing machine people? Bleacher Report is somehow more iconic than the New York Times, Boeing, and J.C. Penney???

What was the reporters at Time smoking when they came up with the list?
 
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JoeCamel

JoeCamel

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Comped said:
Oracle at 13? Cisco at 16? The Children's Place (former owner of the Disney Store to boot) at 21? What even is MyFitnessPal, and how is it somehow more important to the US than ESPN, Harley, Netflix, or AT&T? Publix ranks above Tiffany and Mattel ? Somehow a regional chain of grocery stores is more ironically American than Barbie? IBM is somehow only 95? Bath & Body Works ranks above Macy's, the store so iconic in American culture there's dozens of films which feature just its flagship in NYC (not to mention the parade on Thanksgiving)? NBC ranks below Whirlpool, the washing machine people? Bleacher Report is somehow more iconic than the New York Times, Boeing, and J.C. Penney???

What was the reporters at Time smoking when they came up with the list?
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Probably thinking they would generate page views among people that didn't agree with their opinion - it worked
 
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HMF

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wdwfan4ver said:
I'm not a bit surprise Disney is this high and I can't argue Disney being this high. I also can't argue against the 10 companies ahead of Disney.

Disney has an extremely rich reputation in the Entertainment business.
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Historically yes. right now, not as much. As for the list, thinking Disney wouldn't be on the list is like saying water isn't wet.
 

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