Disney headquarters renamed for Eisner

[crazy4wdw]

This move by the Disney Board does not warm the cockles of my heart!

Disney headquarters renamed Eisner
Posted January 24, 2006

Former Disney head Michael Eisner is leaving one more mark on the company.

The Walt Disney Co. headquarters building in Burbank, Calif., was renamed Monday as "Team Disney -- The Michael D. Eisner Building."

Eisner was chief executive officer of the company for 21 years until he retired last fall, with a year left in his contract, after surviving a shareholder revolt that attempted to oust him in 2004.

Disney Chairman George Mitchell said the board of directors voted unanimously to name the building for Eisner.

"For 21 years, Michael was the leader of the team that reinvigorated this company and put the magic back in Disney, so it is appropriate that this building will now carry his name," Mitchell said.

 

[Another Voice]

For years and years the building had already been called "Michael's Temple" or the "It's all about ME building". Besides, naming a building after him makes it seem like Eisner is dead and buried - surely the best approach the company can take to that man.

I also think it's appropriate that fans nominate their own memorial. My vote is the sink hole near 'Test Track' in Epcot.

 

[buckylarue]

Well, it used to be the Team Disney building, so they only half-named it after him, right? That seems about right; for half of the 21 years he was there, he and his team did in fact reinvigorate and put magic back in Disney. If only he's known when to quit while he was ahead...