Sony
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Sony's Headquarters Complex at Sony City in Minato, Tokyo
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Native name
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ソニー株式会社 |
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Romanized name
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Sonī kabushiki kaisha[1] |
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Formerly
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Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, Ltd. (1946–1957) |
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| ISIN | JP3435000009  |
| Industry | Conglomerate |
| Founded | 7 May 1946 Nihonbashi, Chūō, Tokyo, Japan[2] |
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| Headquarters | Sony City,
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Japan
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Shuzo Sumi (chairman of the board) Kazuo Matsunaga (Vice chairman of the board) Kenichiro Yoshida (Chairman, President & CEO) Shigeki Ishizuka (Vice chairman) |
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| Revenue |  ¥8.259 trillion (2020)[3] |
 ¥894.2 billion (2019)[4] |
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| ¥916.2 billion (2019)[4] |
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| Total assets | ¥23.039 trillion (2020)[3] |
| Total equity | ¥3.746 trillion (2019)[4] |
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Number of employees
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114,400 (2019)[5] |
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| Subsidiaries | List of subsidiaries |
| Website | www |
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Sony Corporation (ソニー株式会社, Sonī 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][1] The company operates as one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer and professional electronic products, the largest video game console company, the second largest video game publisher, the second largest record company, as well as one of the most comprehensive media companies,[8][9] being the largest Japanese media conglomerate by size overtaking the privately held, family-owned Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings, the largest Japanese media conglomerate by revenue.
Sony, with its 50 percent market share in the image sensor market, is among the semiconductor sales leaders[10][11] and, as of 2015, the fifth-largest television manufacturer in the world by annual sales figures. It is the world's largest player in the premium TV market, a market for a television of at least 55 inches with a price higher than $2,500.[12][13]
Sony Corporation is the holding company of the Sony Group (ソニー・グループ, Sonī Gurūpu), which comprises Sony Electronics, Sony Semiconductor Solutions, 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)[14] and make.believe (2009–2013).[15]
Sony has a weak tie to the Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG) corporate group, the successor to the Mitsui group.[16] 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.[17]
