Only 49% of the company was in Disney's hands making it the private party in the partnership. Disney got its wish but it came with a catch.Īs we have reported, the French government was only prepared to allocate such a large plot of land to a foreign company on condition that it entered into a public-private partnership.ĭisney incorporated a company, now known as Euro Disney Associes to run the resort and it was listed on the Paris Euronext exchange. When Disney was looking for a site in Europe it requested a plot of land a fifth the size of Paris in order to maintain its exacting standards in the area surrounding the parks.
