Sony : SONY

Sony (In katakana: ソニー ; In Kanji: 新力) is a consumer electronics giant based in Tokyo, Japan. The name was coined by founder Akio Morita to convey "sound" and "sonny" for youth and energy. It was founded on May 7, 1946 as the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering with about 20 employees. Their first consumer product, in the late 1940s, was a rice boiler. As it grew into a major international corporation, Sony acquired other companies with longer histories, including Columbia Records (the oldest continuously produced brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888).

In 2000 Sony had sales of 63 billion USD and 189,700 employees.

Table of contents

1 Noteworthy products

2 Sony Music Entertainment

3 Movies & Theaters

4 External links

Columbia Tri-Star
Columbia Pictures
Tri-Star Pictures
Jim Henson Productions (partial interest)
Mandalay Entertainment (partial interest)
Phoenix Pictures (partial interest)
Sony Pictures Classics
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Columbia-Tri Star Home Video
Sony/Lowes Theaters
Magic Johnson Theaters
Loews - Star Theaters
- Metreon[?] in San Francisco

External links

The Sony website (http://www.world.sony.com)
Snopes article on the name (http://www.snopes2.com/business/names/sony.htm)
History of Columbia Records/Sony Music Entertainment (http://www.sonymusic.com/world/aboutus/history.html)