I see a lot of synergy for Disney acquiring Cirque. For example:
1) Disney just built PandoraLand... Cirque has a new show based on Avatar: Toruk.
2) Disney is an entertainment megacorp whose weakness seems to be live entertainment... enter Cirque whose strength is exactly that and has global recognition for it.
3) Disney is going to China (Park in Shanghai)... Cirque is building a resident show in HangZhou.
4) Cirque is weak at merchandise and character building... which happen to be two of Disney's superstrengths.
5) Disney doesn't have a presence in Canada, a rather progressive family-oriented country that generates a lot of traffic in at least DisneyWorld... Cirque is one of the biggest, if not THE biggest brand in Canada.
6) The Canadian $ is low, the American $ is high.
7) The two companies already work together on projects and have been doing so for at least 15 years.
8) Cirque already has a show smackdab in the middle of Downtown Disney.
> Disney is an entertainment megacorp whose weakness seems to be live entertainment...
I don't know, Disney Theatrical Productions does pretty well. It's true that Disney has never really embraced Las Vegas, where Cirque is king, but that's also because it's not totally on point with their brand. Outside of Vegas though there's Disney on Ice, and all the Disney musicals with more to come (Frozen opens on Broadway next year, I think).
#5 Uh what?? As a Canadian, I didn't even know Cirque was actually Canadian (nor was it in any top 50 Canadian brands lists I just Googled), so I'm not quite sure if it's the biggest brand in Canada, unless you are strictly speaking the biggest brand that is from Canada, but people don't know is from Canada.
I know it's a huge brand, but man, I've never seen it in a list, or articles or anything, you know, all that crap that comes up in "25 great things you didn't know were Canadian" and what not, or discussions with people. Maybe I'm just out of the loop. The rest of this stuff makes sense.
To be fair, a lot of the Canadians outside of Quebec seem to not give any shit about what happens here. The fact that it has a French name should've been a pretty big clue that it's probably from either France or Quebec.
I definitely wouldn't says the top, but I don't think you can name 20 Canadian brands that are known world wide without including it.
I'm from the US and my wife's Canadian. Before I met her though the three things I've known were Canadian since as long as I can remember are Roots, Bob and Doug McKenzie and CdS...
1) Disney just built PandoraLand... Cirque has a new show based on Avatar: Toruk.
2) Disney is an entertainment megacorp whose weakness seems to be live entertainment... enter Cirque whose strength is exactly that and has global recognition for it.
3) Disney is going to China (Park in Shanghai)... Cirque is building a resident show in HangZhou.
4) Cirque is weak at merchandise and character building... which happen to be two of Disney's superstrengths.
5) Disney doesn't have a presence in Canada, a rather progressive family-oriented country that generates a lot of traffic in at least DisneyWorld... Cirque is one of the biggest, if not THE biggest brand in Canada.
6) The Canadian $ is low, the American $ is high.
7) The two companies already work together on projects and have been doing so for at least 15 years.
8) Cirque already has a show smackdab in the middle of Downtown Disney.
Am I crazy?