Sony Corporation

News and overview for Sony Corporation

Company Overview


Company: Sony Corporation
Industry: Consumer Electronics
Website: http://www.sony.net

Many eyes and hands are on Sony -- or, more likely, on its high-profit consumer electronics products and gaming systems. The company makes a host of other items, including digital and video cameras, Walkman stereos, and semiconductors. Sony, one of the world's top media conglomerates, boasts entertainment assets such as music (Sony Music Entertainment), motion pictures (Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Digital Production), DVDs (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment), and TV programming (Sony Pictures Television). Under the direction of Sir Howard Stringer, the firm's first non-Japanese leader, Sony's realigning its business and shedding some longtime traditions in its effort to right the Sony mother ship.


Key Numbers

Sales in U.S. Dollars (mil.) 79,456.602 (2009)
One-year % Growth in Sales -11.1 (2009)
Net Income in U.S. Dollars (mil.) -1,017 (2009)
One-year % Growth in Net Income 0.0 (2009)
Number of Employees 171,300 (2009)
One-year % Growth in Number of Employees -5.1 (2009)
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