Sony Corporation of America
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Sony Corporation of America (SCA), based in New York, is the United States subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo. It is the umbrella company under which all Sony companies operate in the United States.
Sony is a leading manufacturer of audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. Its motion picture, television, computer entertainment, music and online businesses make Sony one of the most comprehensive entertainment companies in the world.
Sony's principal U.S. businesses include Sony Electronics Inc., Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (one of the largest film & television companies in the world), Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., & Sony Music Entertainment Inc.(one of the largest recorded music companies in the world). Sony recorded consolidated annual sales of approximately $88.7 billion for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2008, and it employs 180,500 people worldwide. Sony’s consolidated sales in the U.S. for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2008 were $29 billion.
Sony is a leading manufacturer of audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. Its motion picture, television, computer entertainment, music and online businesses make Sony one of the most comprehensive entertainment companies in the world.
Sony's principal U.S. businesses include Sony Electronics Inc., Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (one of the largest film & television companies in the world), Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., & Sony Music Entertainment Inc.(one of the largest recorded music companies in the world). Sony recorded consolidated annual sales of approximately $88.7 billion for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2008, and it employs 180,500 people worldwide. Sony’s consolidated sales in the U.S. for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2008 were $29 billion.
Subsidiaries
- Sony Electronics Inc.
- Sony Entertainment Inc.
- Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.Sony Pictures EntertainmentSony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. is the television and film production/distribution unit of Japanese multinational technology and media conglomerate Sony...
- Columbia TriStar Motion Picture GroupColumbia PicturesColumbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies...
- Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group
- Sony Music Entertainment Inc.Sony Music EntertainmentSony Music Entertainment ' is the second-largest global recorded music company of the "big four" record companies and is controlled by Sony Corporation of America, the United States subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation....
- Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLCSony/ATV Music PublishingSony/ATV Music Publishing is a music publishing company co-owned by The Michael Jackson Family Trust and Sony. The organisation was originally founded as Associated TeleVision in 1955 by Lew Grade. In 1957, ATV acquired Pye Records as a wholly owned subsidiary...
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- Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.
- Sony Computer Entertainment America LLCSony Computer EntertainmentSony Computer Entertainment, Inc. is a major video game company specializing in a variety of areas in the video game industry, and is a wholly owned subsidiary and part of the Consumer Products & Services Group of Sony...
- Sony Online Entertainment LLCSony Online EntertainmentSony Online Entertainment is a game development and game publishing division of Sony that is best known for creating massively multiplayer online games, including EverQuest, EverQuest II, The Matrix Online, PlanetSide, Star Wars Galaxies, Free Realms, and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, DC Universe...
- Sony Online Entertainment LLC
- Sony Digital Audio Disc CorporationSony Digital Audio Disc CorporationSony Digital Audio Disc Corporation is a manufacturer of Compact Discs, DVDs, UMDs, and Blu-ray Discs. The company has many plants worldwide...
(Sony DADC) and Sony Entertainment Distribution - Sony Connect Inc.
- Sony Plaza Public Arcade and Sony Wonder Technology Lab (New York City)
- Gracenote, Inc.GracenoteGracenote, Inc., formerly called CDDB , is a company that maintains and licenses an Internet-accessible database containing information about the contents of audio compact discs and vinyl records. It provides software and metadata to businesses that enable their customers to manage and search...
- iCyt Mission Technology, Inc.