As the story goes— “Danjaq” was setup by Albert R Broccoli and Harry Saltzman in 1961, an amalgam of their wives, respectively named Dana and Jacqueline [1].
According to Mark Dent of The Hustle, the producers “structured their partnership in a way that maximized profits and, controversially, limited their British tax burden [2].
- Their Britain-based production company, Eon (short for ‘everything or nothing’), made the films.
- Another business, Danjaq, acted as the holding company for the Bond rights. Danjaq was first incorporated in Switzerland and later in Delaware. Most profits flowed to Danjaq.
Between that pivotal first year and 1975, nine of the first ten James Bond motion pictures were produced by Messrs Broccoli and Saltzman. Seventeen came after, Cubby Broccoli having been involved with seven or eight (depending on how you count the 1995 GoldenEye).