Sony
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America. For other uses, see Sony (disambiguation).
Sony Group Corporation
Sony's Headquarters Complex at Sony City in Minato, Tokyo
Native name ソニーグループ株式会社
Romanized name Sonī Gurūpu kabushiki kaisha
Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, Ltd. (1946–
Formerly
1957)
Sony Corporation (1958–2021)[a][1]
Type Public
Traded as TYO: 6758
NYSE: SONY
Nikkei 225 component (6758)
TOPIX Core30 component (6758)
ISIN JP3435000009
Industry Conglomerate
Founded 7 May 1946; 75 years ago
Nihonbashi, Chūō, Tokyo, Japan[2]
Founders Masaru Ibuka
Akio Morita
Headquarters Sony City,
Minato, Tokyo
,
Japan
Area served Worldwide
Key people Shuzo Sumi
(Chairman of the board)
Kazuo Matsunaga
(Vice Chairman of the board)
Kenichiro Yoshida
(Chairman, President & CEO)
Shigeki Ishizuka
(Vice Chairman)
Products Consumer electronics
Semiconductors
Video games
Films
TV shows
Music
Computer hardware
Telecommunications equipment
Robots
Services Financial services
Insurance
Banking
Credit finance
Advertising agency
Network services
¥8.999 trillion (2021) [3]
Revenue
Operating income ¥971.965 billion (2021)[3]
Net income ¥1.191 trillion (2021)[3]
¥26.354 trillion (2021[3]
Total assets
¥5.621 trillion (2021)[3]
Total equity
Number of 111,700 (2021)[4]
employees
Divisions Game & Network Services
Music
Pictures
Electronics Products & Solutions
Imaging & Sensing Solutions
Financial Services
Others[5]
Subsidiaries See list of subsidiaries
Website www.sony.com
Footnotes / references
[6]
Sony Group Corporation (ソニーグループ株式会社, Sonī Gurūpu kabushiki
gaisha, /ˈsoʊni/ SOH-nee, commonly known as Sony and stylized as SONY) is a
Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan, Minato,
Tokyo.[7] As a major technology company, it operates as one of the world's largest
manufacturers of consumer and professional electronic products, the largest video
game console company and the largest video game publisher. Through Sony
Entertainment Inc, it is one of the largest music companies (largest music
publisher & second largest record label) and the third largest film studio, making it
one of the most comprehensive media companies, being the largest Japanese
media conglomerate by size overtaking the privately held, family-owned Yomiuri
Shimbun Holdings, the largest Japanese media conglomerate by revenue. [8][9][10]
Sony, with its 55 percent market share in the image sensor market, is the largest
manufacturer of image sensors, the second largest camera manufacturer, and is
among the semiconductor sales leaders.[11][12][13] It is the world's largest player in the
premium TV market for a television of at least 55 inches (140 centimeters) with a
price higher than $2,500 as well as second largest TV brand by market share and,
as of 2020, the third largest television manufacturer in the world by annual sales
figures.[14][15][16][17]
Sony Group Corporation is the holding company of the Sony Group (ソニー・グルー
プ, Sonī Gurūpu), which comprises Sony Corporation, Sony Semiconductor
Solutions, Sony Entertainment (Sony Pictures, Sony Music), Sony Interactive
Entertainment, Sony Financial Holdings, and others.
The company's slogan is Be Moved. Their former slogans were The One and
Only (1979–1982), It's a Sony (1982–2005), like.no.other (2005–2009)
[18]
and make.believe (2009–2013).[19]
Sony has a weak tie to the Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG) corporate
group, the successor to the Mitsui keiretsu.[20] Sony is listed on the Tokyo Stock
Exchange (in which it is a constituent of the Nikkei 225 and TOPIX Core30 indexes)
with an additional listing in the form of American depositary receipts listed in the New
York Stock Exchange (traded since 1970, making it the oldest Japanese company to
be listed in an American exchange), and was ranked 122nd on the
2020 Fortune Global 500 list.[21]
