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Bloomberg Surveillance: Disney CFO Hugh Johnston

Bloomberg Surveillance

Bloomberg

News, Business, Business News, Investing

3.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Disney Senior Executive Vice President and CFO Hugh Johnston discusses cutting costs, the newly announced sports bundle with Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery and meeting viewers where they are. He speaks with Bloomberg Surveillance hosts Jonathan Ferro and Lisa Abramowicz.

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There's a lot to discuss with Hugh Johnston, the Disney Disney CFO who joins us now.

1:04.0

Hugh it's great to catch up with you sir we spoke for years in your years of

1:07.8

Pepsi fantastic to see you in a new seat let's just get straight into these

1:12.0

numbers if we can.

1:13.2

Cost cutting. Can you walk us through where that cost cutting exercise is really biting?

1:18.0

Yeah, it actually is and good morning to you, John, and to the team there.

1:22.4

I'm very excited about that the

1:24.7

progress that we've made on cost cutting. To be honest, when you do these programs, you're

1:29.6

always looking for is it actually flowing to the bottom line and what we communicated yesterday

1:34.4

was 500 million dollars of saves flowed through to the bottom line and you can see it in the

1:39.5

P&L in the form of margin improvement to the tune of 350 basis points.

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