On March 30, there was the official departure of Bob Iger as the head of Diseny, a position he has held for the last 15 years and which has made this company the leader in the audiovisual sector worldwide. Iger announced his surprise departure at the end of February, although it was already planned.
His position would be temporarily filled by Bob Chapek, head of Disney's amusement parks in the United States, Europe and Asia, although Iger would be part of the board of directors for help in whatever is needed. According to the New York Times, Iger's retirement has been short-lived as he has returned to run the company.
According to this media, due to the global crisis that the coronavirus has generated, Disney is losing $ 30 million every day, and forced the company to borrow $ 6.000 billion at the end of last month. To try to save the solution, the board of directors has been forced to ask Iger to re-lead the company to try to get out of this pandemic as little as possible.
Bob Chapek has not been able to cope with a situation that they neither expected nor saw coming and heIger's experience is a mouthful of oxygen We don't know how long it will last The audiovisual sector has delayed many of the premieres scheduled for these months at the end of the year or the beginning of next year. All our own productions are paralyzed (including those destined for streaming video services). The audiovisual sector faces a situation that they will have to overcome with the best possible damage.
Since the crisis began, the only two companies that lead the stock market in the United States that have not seen the value of the shares go down are Amazon and Microsoft. While Microsoft has benefited from the increased use of its cloud services, Amazon has become practically the only way to continue to buy any product normally.
