Clovis Assignment 7.1

BY KEVIN OMARI APPAH

Clovis Assignment 7.1

Ownership of the Media Sector

Structure and Ownership of the Media Industry 

I have selected Apple as  my focus because  it goes under one of the media sectors as an established, popular brand which has a lot of important history and substance, an influence in society. The CEO of Apple was previously two people; Steve Jobs and Tim Cook. The CEO of Apple has many responsibilities, such as making a lot of important decisions as they handle all of the resources inside of the company. Additionally, one of the most important aspects of being the CEO of Apple is communicating with the board of directors and essentially being the face of the brand. Normally for a company a CEO is voted by the board and the shareholders of the company. An actual CEO has to go from one company to another company but it all depends on the company’s size, culture and the structure for the corporate. In Apple, there are four key main people that are important in the company. These people are called Steve Jobs, who died in 2011, Tim Cook, Arthur D. Levinson and Jeff Williams. 

The origin for Apple is called Cupertino as the founders of Apple (Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak incorporated apple on January 3rd, 1977 in Cupertino, California. Apple has a company certainly within a chain of retail stores known as Apple Stores. Apple’s product lines are the iPhone Smartphone, iPad tablet computer, iPod portable media players and Macintosh computer line. The revenue for Apple is 258.5 billion USD. Apple obtains a higher revenue than Amazon, Samsung Group and Microsoft Corporation. Apple’s revenue has had a high growth rate from 2006 to 2019. Apple Inc. is all about designing, manufacturing and marketing mobile communication and media devices such as personal computers, and portable digital music players. 

For Apple, it has a hierarchical organisational structure and it has many characteristics that are noticeable, however it has a weak functional way of doing this. The divisional characteristics refer to the product base that is grouping within Apple such as for iOS and MacOS.

Timothy Donald Cook is an American industrial engineer. Cook is the Chief Executive Office of Apple Inc. and previously served as the company’s chief under the cofounder of Apple, Steve Jobs. In 1998, Steve Jobs asked Tim Cook to join him in managing Apple, which was decided in a commencement speech at Auburn University where they had met for the first time.  Cook decided to join Apple and then went on to do important investments into the company.

 

 An example of a key product for Apple is the iPhone, arguably the most used phone in the entire world. These iPhones that are produced by Apple have made them billions in sales and made Apple a household name. One iPhone that has been released not long ago has already made apple 2.2 billion. In general, all of Apples iPhone have not been the same as before it didn’t make a lot of money until it got to iPhone 6 then it started to make more and more profit. Throughout the years despite some falls that Apple has had in sales it is still very important in the mobile market as the first ever iPhone was released in 2007 and It was called iPhone 2G then the iPhone kept on developing and developing with the camera being developed and the phone get bigger and bigger.

 Another example of some key products that Apple have are called Apple MacBook Pro and Apple IPad. The Apple MacBook’s work very more efficiently than normal computers as on a Mac, every single thing is designed to then work out just the way you would expect it to be from working with it with the help of Siri to help you then find a file or to having all of your apps to then be updated to the updated versions and there is also less to learn and that makes it easier to use. In terms of a IPad it is one of the most popular products for customers right now as it has got larger (10.2-inch retina display) as it is similar to a computer because it has combined the power and capability of a computer with the versatility you would want your computer or mac to then have as it is very fun to use.

BY KEVIN OMARI APPAH

Clovis Assignment 7.1

Ownership of the Media Sector

Structure and Ownership of the Media Industry

I have chosen to use Sky as it is a popular media conglomerate.. Sky is a British telecommunications company (so the sector it goes under is Television) which serves the UK and is owned by Comcast. Sky provides television and broadband Internet services, fixed line and mobile phone services to business and to consumers in the United Kingdom. Sky in the UK was the most popular digital TV service until its spot was taken over by Freeview in April 2007. The headquarters for Sky is in Isleworth as it was built in 1994.  Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting merged together and Sky then became the UK’s biggest digital subscription television company. For Sky, the key main people in the company include their Chief Financial Officer Andrew Griffith.  T most important person is Jeremy Darroch, the CEO of sky, and he has been the CEO since December 2007. The other key important people are: Stephen van Rooyen, (Chief Executive Officer, UK and Ireland) Andrea Zappia (Chief Executive Officer, Continental Europe), Carsten Schmidt (Chief Executive Officer, Sky Deutschland), Mohammed Hamady (Group Chief Technology Officer) and John Ryley (Head of Sky News). For sky that is very good is that they have package deals so for (sky sports) sports, (sky cinema) films, broadband and fibre deals and the latest sky offers.

Under the leadership of Jeremy Darroch Sky has been changed from a UK satellite paying TV business into Europe’s leading entertainment company into Europe’s most leading company that entertains and operates in many different many markets Jeremy’s visions has enabled Sky to then become a multi-product consumer business, selling a broad range of services across a variety of devices and networks that have 22.7 million from customers across Europe. The origin of sky is that it was formed in 1990 and in a small town of Saxon origin which sited within the London Borough of Hounslow in West London, England.

For Sky, their  revenue is 13.58 billion GBP.  BT Group has a higher revenue than sky as their one is 23.75 billion GBP. Sky’s reports say that recently,  Sky has had a rise in revenue and the profits are up to 7% in what is to be the final result as it is an independent business. In 2018, Sky’s profits increased more and more than one hundred billion from the previous year. The statistic shown on the left shows the revenue of the British pay TV operator Sky in the years of 2006 to the year of 2018. In the year 2015, sky created a revenue of approximately 9.99 billion pounds, up from 7.45 billion year earlier. This figure then reached the level of 13.6 billion British pounds in the year of 2018. For Sky, it has a hierarchical organisational structure in Sky.

These are two of the examples of the products that sky associate with; Sky Sports and Sky Cinemas. The product at the top is one of the most important products towards customers as this is where you can watch premier league football on sky sports and you can watch films as well with sky cinema. The product below is a sky sound box which is designed to then be connected series between your source (Sky Q box in this case) and your TV as well.

BY KEVIN OMARI APPAH

Clovis 7.1 Assignment

Ownership of the media sector

Structure and Ownership of the Media Industry

 

After careful consideration, I have chosen Walt Disney as the company to focus on in this report  as it is a company with years of history.. The CEO of Disney is called Robert Iger. Robert

Iger is an American media executive, film producer, author and the Chief Executive Officer of the Walt Disney Company. The origin of the Walt Disney Company started in 1923 in a very small office that is occupied by Holly-Vermont Realty in Los Angeles. It was there that the Walt Disney CEO and his brother, Roy,  started to produce a series of short live-action/animated film that are collectively called ALICE comedies. The key people in The Walt Disney are the CEO who is called Robert Iger and the Chief Financial Officer, Christine M. McCarthy she is the person that reports to the CEO with any problems as she is the person that Oversees the company’s worldwide finance organisation which then includes a brand and franchise management, corporate alliances, corporate real estate, corporate strategy, enterprise controllership and enterprise social responsibility. The Walt Disney has a multidivisional cooperative organisational structure that helps to focus on a specific business type.  A multidivisional organisational structure is common in a company like Walt Disney as it is a diversified company.

 

 

 

 

 

The revenue for Walt Disney is 59.43 billion USD. These statistics on the left shows the revenue that has been generated by the Walt Disney company from the first part of 2010 to the second and third quarter of 2019. In the last measured Walt Disney has made 20.25 billion U.S. dollars in revenue. The Walt Disney company had announced record revenue of 59.23 billion U.S. dollars in the year of 2018 an increase of over 10 million U.S. dollars.

 

 

 

 

These are some of the products that are associated with Disney. Many customers buy these products for their children as in general Disney is mostly trying to make the younger audience happy hence why they have produced items such as toys which appeal to my younger audiences and are based off their films.

 

The Reports

Clovis Assignment 7.1

Introduction: 

In my first report, I will be reporting about Apple Inc. and how these companies work including the structure and the ownership for the company.

Who owns Apple: The founders of Apple are Steve Jobs, Ronald Wayne, Steve Wozniak to help develop the company in a good way. 

Who’s important in Apple:

Wozniak’s Apple first personal computer as Ronald Wayne sold his share back in 12 days it was then made into Apple Computer Inc. in January 1977 and the sales of Apple’s computers including the Apple two grew quickly. Steve Jobs is the CEO of apple meaning that he is very important inside Apple Inc. Steve Woznick is a co-founder as he found out about the company along with two people he was the person to release some of the first personal computers on the market.

Sources of Income:

The sources of Income are that in Apple generates all of the revenues from all of the sales for all of the products the subscription fees associated with iCloud and Apple Music and extended warranty fees for all of their products. iPhone is very popular towards as that is one of the things that the customers all like to buy as its company’s line of smartphones. IPhones and IPads run on Apple’s iOS operating system. In general, Apple sells its products in most of its markets through all of its retail and the online stores and its direct sales force. Also, the company will then a sell all of its products including the application software’s and various accessories through the online and the retail stores that Apple has. Here is a diagram to show how Apple has made millions from all of their products.

In this you can clearly see that from 2006 to 2010 apple has made a lot of growth in revenue.

When was Apple founded/What type of company is Apple

Apple was founded one the 1^stApril 1976 Cupertino California United States as there were two founders that created an Apple computer on April 1 in 1976 and then incorporated Apple on January 3^rd,1977, this means it took them one year to then get Apple as an incorporated company this then makes apple 43 years oldas we are now on the year of 2019. Apple is a public company that uses multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California that helps to design, helps to develop and then sells consumer electronics, computer software and online services

What other companies does Apple Own

There are many other companies that Apple owns these are called Shazam, Siri, Beats Electronics, NeXT Inc. and Prime Sense. Steve Jobs was forced out of Apple and then go into the company NeXT Inc. where this was the company where he started off again as he started to release the first NeXT computer, designed for higher education and business applications as Apple saw how much money NeXT company was getting they decided to purchase NeXT for 429 million in cash and shares of Apple stock in 1997.

Product diversity for Apple

One of the chief executive officers at Apple who is name Tim cook has said that the diversity in Apple’s products is very key to all of Apple’s products as the chief executive Officer Tim cook said to some students in a speech that was done not long ago. In this speech, Tim Cook must have mentioned that both diversity and inclusion is how Apple products have become great as he believes you can make a good product with a diverse team. The reason why apple products are so great is because not only the engineers and computer scientists but artists and musicians as they are the people that make the products magical.

Clovis Assignment 7.1 BY KEVIN OMARI APPAH

Report 2

Introduction:

This is now my second report and I will be talking about Sky and how Sky function including the structure and the ownership of the company.

Who owns Sky: 

The company Sky is owned by Comcast, this already has control over the US news and media businesses that include NBC and Universal Studios although an actual announcement hasn’t happened. The sky chairman James Murdoch is then likely to leave sky when the deal has finally been finalised. As Comcast has brought Sky they had to pay a stunning 30billion. Comcast gets all of Sky which operates pay-Tv platforms in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Italy as well as Now TV, Sky’s over the top alternative to a full flat pay-tv and its streaming service in Spain and was launched in September 2017. Comcast is a major distributor of Disney product in America.

Who’s important in Sky: 

In sky, there are many important people inside of the company. These people are called Jeremy Darroch as he is the chief executive of Sky since December 2007. Another person is Andrew Griffiths who is a chief financial officer inside of the company, for Sky there is also Stephen Van Rooyen who is a Chief Executive Officer in UK and Ireland for the company, however there are two other people that are Chief Executive Officers these people are called Carsten Schmidt and Andrea Zappia.

 Sources of Income:In this company, the sources of income have risen in a very good way as from 2005 to 2010 it has gone up by 7 percent in what then looks like it is going to be an annual result. From June, it has rose by 7% to 1.034billion. Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation went up to 9% to more than 2.3 billion. Sky plc mentioned that the revenue risen for the 29^thyear with the revenue being up to 5% to 13.6 billion.  Recently as Sky has had a focus on the customers has then driven the company’s performance.

When was Sky founded/What type of company Sky is

Sky was founded on the 2^ndNovember in 1990 this then means the company is 29 years meaning it isn’t very young but it isn’t very old. As Sky is very popular it would be a public company that involves telecommunications conglomerateis owned by Comcast and then headquarters In London. In terms of Sky, being a limited company it is a public company as lots of people know about Sky as a company.

What are the organisational objectives for Sky 

In sky, there are many organisational objectives as sky as a particular reputation that they have to stick by their reputation as Sky’s reputation as a news organisation is one of Sky’s most valuable assets. As Sky are one of them companies to be able to achieve higher standards of responsibility within the company because their standards increase and increase especially when new offers come out for the company. Another organisational objective for Sky would be to make profit but they have passed this objective many times as Sky makes a lot of profit as Sky are then a lot of profit this would mean they will keep growing as a company which will very good for their reputation.

Horizontal Integration/Vertical Integration

At the start of when Sky was made it was a smaller business than it is right now so this means that they would have had horizontal integrations as this is the process of where Sky increase the production of all of their products and the services that they give as usually if a company starts off with Horizontal Integration this can lead to a merger or the company expanding in general and in this case, it would mean Sky will expand. But now as Sky had developed into a very big telecommunications company it would then be vertical integration as Sky would then start to combine all of their products to help satisfy the customer’s needs. Another reason why Sky would be Vertical Integrated as they take charge of their other company whereas, before as they were a smaller company they didn’t run their own company.

Clovis Assignment 7.1 BY KEVIN OMARI APPAH 

Report 3

Introduction:This is now my second report and I will be talking about The Walt Disney and how The Walt Disney function including the structure and the ownership of the company.

Owner of The Walt Disney:The owner of the Walt Disney company is called Robert A. Iger as Robert A. Iger being the chairman and the CEO of the company he is also the steward of one of the world’s biggest media companies and some of the most respected brands around the globe. Robert A.Iger has made Disney very rich because of the remarkable stories that have been told with the help of Pixar in 2006, Marvel in 2009, Lucas film in 2012 and also 21^st Century Fox in 2019. As well as this there was the landmark of opening one of Disney’s first very theme parks and resorts for all the young children in China Shanghai Disney Resort. Mr Iger always a person to take in new technology that comes to as he has made Disney a very good leader through all the things that Disney has done creatively for example the content across many different multiple platforms that are new. Robert Iger became President and CEO at the beginning of October in the year of 2005 and before he was the Chief Operating Officer from 2000-2005, he officially became a part of the Disney senior management team in 1197 as the chairman of the Disney owned ABC group in 1999 as Iger had that role he thought to help Disney by expanding and coordinating Disney’s presence outside of the United States to help establish a blueprint for the Disney’s international growth today.

Who’s important in The Walt Disney: The CEO in Disney is Robert Iger, However, he isn’t the only person that is important in The Walt Disney company as Michael Eisner used to be the chairman of the Walt Disney company. Alan Braver man who is a Senior Executive [resident inside of the company. Christine M. McCarthy who is also a Senior Executive President and it the Chief Financial Officer inside of the Company these are all the senior corporate officers inside of the company. These people are important inside of the company because they have management responsibility in the company.

Sources of Income:In Sky, the sources of income meant that the Walt Disney company generated a revenue of 20.3 billion in United States dollars with the parks and resorts places involved inside of the graph as well. The company’s biggest segment for the sources of income was all of the media networks that Disney associated which then helped to make more revenue inside of the company and it made 24.5 billion in the year of 2018. This then represents a significant increase from the 15.86 billion of revenue that was made in 2008. This is good as then The Walt Disney Company improved throughout all of the years all of the assets of the Walt Disney Company totalled to 95.79 billon U.S. dollars in the year of 2017. This can all be shown through the graph shown on the left-hand side. In this graph, you can see media networks that Disney have been involved with have helped them increase the source of income in a massive way and the park and resorts has helped in a major way as well as from the others that are Studio entertainment and Consumer products and interactive media they didn’t really have a lot of revenue.

Horizontal Integration/Vertical Integration

Vertical Integration for Disney would be when Disney would have to produce, market, distribute what they have produced and create merchandise for their products this is good as then all of the products that Disney have made will then be distributed in the world. In terms of Horizontal Integration this would be when Disney develops all of the materials that isn’t towards their target market. This would then all Disney to then expand their business and create a new target market which would then give Disney more profit.