The UK arm of The Walt Disney Company, with a registered office in Hammersmith and film and TV production at Pinewood Studios.
The Walt Disney Company Limited is the UK company of the global entertainment business Disney. Its Companies House record lists it as incorporated on 8 March 1954, active, with a registered office at 3 Queen Caroline Street, Hammersmith, London, W6 9PE. Its listed business activity is artistic creation. The Walt Disney Company Limited has a long history in the UK, with the registered company dating back to the 1950s.
We did not find a Disney mission statement on the pages we read, so none is quoted here. Disney is known for family films and TV, the Disney+ streaming service, and franchises such as Star Wars, Marvel and Pixar, but we have only evidence of its UK company and studio activity from our sources. Disney's wider businesses include film studios, television and streaming, theme parks and consumer products, although we have not checked which of these have UK teams.
In 2019 Pinewood Studios signed a long-term agreement with Disney under which Disney takes all the stages, backlots and other production accommodation at Pinewood in Buckinghamshire. Pinewood Group Chairman Paul Golding said Disney had been making great films there for many years, and recent shoots included Star Wars films, Beauty and the Beast and Black Panther. This is dated 2019, so check the current position. The article noted that Netflix had recently made a deal to use Pinewood's Shepperton studios, so Buckinghamshire and Surrey have become major homes of streaming-era production. Pinewood chairman Paul Golding's comment shows that the relationship with Disney goes back many years before the 2019 agreement, and the article's author suggested the deal could help Disney meet British or European content quotas for Disney+, which is the author's view and not a confirmed fact.
A business like this employs people in film and TV production, studio operations, marketing, consumer products and licensing, legal, finance and digital teams. Large productions at Pinewood also create work for crew such as carpenters, electricians, costume and visual effects staff, often hired project by project. The stages and backlots taken under the Pinewood agreement mean a lot of work for set builders and technical crews.
We could not confirm a UK headcount, a list of other UK offices or details of Disney+ UK operations. We have not researched careers pages; check Disney's UK website for current roles and the latest details of its UK business.
Website: www.disney.co.uk
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