News TWDC Organizational Shakeup - Parks combined with Consumer Products

[asianway]

I get it... you have to call it something...

But the idea of calling DLP and WDW "Western" parks when you're headquartered in California seems kind of disingenuous to me.

They could just as easily called the divisions "Asia" and "Everything Else."

Hemispheres

 

[larryz]

In recent history, western Europe and countries in the Americas have always been "the west." Countries in Asia have always been "the east." Like, western culture and eastern culture. I think it is just as simple as that.

I get it... you have to call it something...

 

[lazyboy97o]

Hemispheres

Paris is in the Eastern Hemisphere.

 

[The Empress Lilly]

So it looks like "Western Division" is everything except China and Japan.

The Eastern Division is everything except America and France.

 

[asianway]

Paris is in the Eastern Hemisphere.

Gaugh!

 

[larryz]

Paris is in the Eastern Hemisphere.

Ah, but it's west of the Eastern Division parks...

 

[MisterPenguin]

Do you know if the Parks Line of Business structure is still around and who’s leading it? The group Joe Schott led before he went to Shanghai. It was the “Experience Integration” but I believe that divison was reorganized.

I don't know the organizational structure any deeper than what I posted.