Shamrock Holdings
Shamrock Holdings is the firm founded as the Roy E. Disney family investment firm and the Disney family remains a key investor. Roy is its chairman, and Stanley Gold its President/CEO. Shamrock owns a number of assets including hotels and radio and television stations. In July 2006 one of Roy E. Disney's daughters, Abigail, became Vice Chairman of Shamrock. Shamrock is a private corporation, owned 100% by Roy E. Disney.
From 2003 to 2005, Shamrock was an instrumental force in the SaveDisney campaign and the ouster of Michael Eisner as CEO of The Walt Disney Company.[1]
Shares
According to Reuters, in 1984 Shamrock held 1,428,061 (or just over 4%) of all Disney stock.[2]
As of 2003 Roy E. Disney holds about 1% of Disney stock through Shamrock Holdings. This makes him the third largest individual stakeholder of Disney stock.[3]
Shamrock Holdings bought a 5.5% stake in Texas Instruments in 2008.[4]