Sony

Detailed Description

Sony Group Corporation designs, develops, produces, and sells electronic equipment, instruments, and devices for the consumer, professional, and industrial markets worldwide. The company distributes software titles and add-on content through digital networks; network services related to game, video, and music content; and home and portable game consoles, packaged software, and peripheral devices. It also develops, produces, markets, and distributes recorded music; publishes music; and produces and distributes animation titles, game applications based on animation titles, and various services for music and visual products. In addition, the company produces, acquires, and distributes live-action and animated motion pictures for theatrical release, as well as scripted and animated series, unscripted reality or light entertainment, daytime serials, game shows, television movies, and miniseries and other television programs; operates a visual effects and animation unit; manages a studio facility; and operates television and digital networks, and post-production facilities. Further, it researches, develops, designs, produces, markets, distributes, sells, and services televisions, and video and sound products; interchangeable lens, compact digital, and consumer and professional video cameras; projectors and medical equipment; mobile phones, tablets, accessories, and applications; and metal oxide semiconductor image sensors, charge-coupled devices, large-scale integration systems, and other semiconductors. Additionally, it offers Internet broadband network services; creates and distributes content for PCs and mobile phones; and provides life and non-life insurance, banking, and other services, as well as batteries, recording media, and storage media products. The company was formerly known as Sony Corporation and changed its name to Sony Group Corporation in April 2021. Sony Group Corporation was incorporated in 1946 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Product & Services

Consumer electronicsSemiconductorsVideo gamesFilmsTV showsMusicComputer hardwareTelecommunications equipmentRobots, Financial servicesInsuranceBankingCredit financeAdvertising agencyNetwork services

Key People

Founder(s): Masaru Ibuka Akio Morita

Shuzo Sumi (Chairman of the board) Kazuo Matsunaga (Vice Chairman of the board) Kenichiro Yoshida (Chairman, President & CEO) ShigekIIshizuka (Vice Chairman)

Financials

Revenue: ¥8.999 trillion (US$81.38 billion) (FY2020)

Operating income: ¥971.965 billion (US$8.78 billion) (FY2020)

Net income: ¥1.191 trillion (US$10.77 billion) (FY2020)

Total assets: ¥26.354 trillion (US$238.31 billion) (FY2020)

Total equity: ¥5.621 trillion (US$50.83 billion) (FY2020)