Sony Corporation of America
Formerly | Sony USA Inc.[1] |
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Type | Subsidiary |
Industry | Electronics Entertainment Television |
Founded | February 15, 1960 (1960-02-15) |
Founder | Akio Morita |
Headquarters | 25 Madison Avenue, New York City, New York United States |
Key people | Kenichiro Yoshida (President & CEO of Sony Corp.) Kazuo Hirai (Chairman of Sony Corp.) |
Parent | Sony Corporation |
Subsidiaries | Various |
Website | www.sony.com |
Sony Corporation of America (SCA), based in New York City,[2] is a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony Corporation. It is the U.S. headquarters of Sony, under which all Sony companies operate in the United States.
Sony's principal U.S. businesses include Sony Electronics, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony Music Entertainment, and Sony/ATV Music Publishing.
It was reported in December of 2016 by multiple news outlets that Sony was considering restructuring its U.S. operations by merging its TV & film business, Sony Pictures Entertainment, with its gaming business, Sony Interactive Entertainment. According to the reports, such a restructuring would have placed Sony Pictures under Sony Interactive's CEO, Andrew House, though House wouldn't have taken over day-to-day operations of the film studio.[3][4][5] According to one report, Sony was set to make a final decision on the possibility of the merger of the TV, film, & gaming businesses by the end of its fiscal year in March of the following year (2017).[3] However, judging by Sony's activity in 2017, the rumored merger never materialized.
Contents
1 Subsidiaries
1.1 Others subsidiaries
2 Notes and references
3 External links
Subsidiaries
Name | Established | Location | Parent company |
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Sony Electronics USA Inc. | February 15, 1960 | San Diego, California[6] | Sony Corporation of America |
Sony Entertainment Inc.[7][8] | 2012 | New York City, New York | |
Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. | August 7, 1991 | Culver City, California | Sony Entertainment |
Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group | 1998 | Sony Pictures Entertainment | |
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Inc. | June 1978 | Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group | |
Sony Wonder | July 26, 1991 | New York City, New York | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment |
Sony Pictures Television Inc. | November 1948 | Culver City, California | Sony Pictures Entertainment |
Sony Music Entertainment | 2008 | New York City, New York | Sony Entertainment |
Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC | 1955 | ||
Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC[9] | November 16, 1993 | San Mateo, California | Sony Corporation of America |
Sony DADC US Inc. | 1983 | Terre Haute, Indiana | |
Sony Mobile Communications (USA) Inc. | October 1, 2001 | San Mateo, California[10] | Sony Mobile Communications AB[10] |
Others subsidiaries
- Sony Plaza Public Arcade (New York City, New York)
- Sony Optical Archive (formerly Optical Archive, San Jose, California)[11]
- Sony Biotechnology (formerly iCyt Mission Technology, Champaign, Illinois)[12][13]
- Micronics, Inc. (Redmond, Washington)[14]
EMI Music Publishing Ltd. (London, United Kingdom; Sony Music Holdings owns a 39.8% equity interest. EMI Music Publishing delegates its day-to-day operations to Sony/ATV.)[15][16]
Notes and references
^ Detailed Description, Company Overview of Sony Corporation of America Bloomberg
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^ ab Aldrich, Rachel (12 December 2016). "Why would Sony merge its gaming and film units?". TheStreet.
^ Atkinson, Claire (12 December 2016). "Sony considers merging gaming and film divisions". New York Post.
^ Cooke, Chris. "Revamp of Sony's entertainment business could more closely align Sony Music with Sony/ATV | Complete Music Update".
^ Our Businesses, Sony Corporation of America
^ "Corporate Fact Sheet". Sony Corporation of America. Retrieved 14 December 2009.
^ "Outline of Principal Operations". Sony Corporation of America. Retrieved 14 December 2009.
^ "Principal Operations: Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC". Sony Corporation of America. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
^ ab Company Overview of Sony Mobile Communications (USA) Inc. Bbloomberg
^ "Sony to Acquire Optical Archive Inc". Sony Corporation of America. 2015-05-27. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
^ "iCyt Mission Technology Renamed Sony Biotechnology" (PDF). Sony Corporation of America. 2012-10-18. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-11-19. Retrieved 2012-10-23.
^ Sony Enters the Flow Cytometry Business in Life Science Field by Acquiring iCyt Archived 2010-02-15 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Sony acquires Micronics, Inc., US diagnostic device development venture, Acquisition to accelerate development and commercialization of Point of Care diagnostic products". Sony Corporation. 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2012-04-06.
^ California Central District Court Case No. 2:16-cv-05364 page 101, line 13 (Case 2:16-cv-05364 page 6, line 27).
^ Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2017 (pages 48 and F-27), Sony Corporation
External links
- Company website
- Sony Corporation of America