Sony Corp.

Headquarters location: 7-35, Kitashinagawa, 6-chome, Shinagawa-ku Tokyo 141-0001 Tel. 81-3-5448-2111 Job offers, investor relations: www.sony.co.jp Stock:

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« ETHICAL » RATING OF SONY , group and subsidiaries [?] 24% Job: 24% of company's jobs cut since 1998 7 Delinquency: 7 act(s) of financial or trade delinquency 7 Tax haven, secret bank account, shell companies: operates in 7 offshore financial center(s) 63 Sales: more than 63 billion(s) dollars/euros in annual sales 4 Net profit: more than 4 billion(s) dollars/euros in cumulated net profit since 1998 4 Influence: 4 act(s) of direct corruption or lobbying 4 Advertising & marketing: 4 dubious practice(s) Full profile >>>
Relevance: business & market share year business source 2007 Sony sells 6,2% of the digital reflec cameras bought in the world. Capital 2007 Sony sells 1 console out of 7 bought in the United States. Capital 2006 Sony sold 11,94 million walkman (DD, MD, CD) in 2005. Les Echos 2006 Since their launch, Sony sold more than 200 million consoles Playstation 1 and 2 in the world. Reuters 2006 Sony is the world's biggest maker of video-game players. Bloomberg 2006 Since 2002, Sony sells 250 millions games for PlayStation consoles per year. Les Echos 2005 Sony sells 2% of the digital audio players bought in the world. Capital 2005 The world's second-largest consumer electronics maker. Bloomberg 2004 Sony sold 14 million digital cameras in 2004, 100 million PlayStation consoles since it was launched and 90 millions PS2 since autumn 2003. 2004 Sony sells 67% of the game consoles bought in the world. AFP 2004 Sony sold 6,6% of the cellular netsystems installed in China. Les Echos 2004 Sony sells 6% of the Flat-panel TV bought in the world. World locations & Manufacturing country incentive : address & contact : production type source   : baladeurs CD, MD, cassette et disque dur Les Echos Sony Gulf FZE : Sony Gulf FZE, P.O.Box : 16871 Jebel Ali & 04-815488 : Sony Corp of Hong Kong Ltd :   : baladeurs CD, MD, cassette et disque dur Les Echos   5 DE FEBRERO Y PERIFERICO OTE. 601 21000 BAJA CALIFORNIA MEXICALI :   Maquiladora, Nuevo Laredo : AP   5520 P.I. EL LAGO 22550 BAJA CALIFORNIA TIJUANA & 253216 :   9250 PQE.IND.TIJUANA 22300 BAJA CALIFORNIA TIJUANA & 278500 : Sony Corp of Panama SA : Sony International (Singapore) Ltd : Sony Overseas SA : Zona franca de Montevideo : The map of tax haven, secret accounts and shell companies Sony is managed by year name photo position; compensation source 2005Stringer, Howard Chief Executive Officer; Les Echos 2003Fukushima, Sakie T Director; 2003Ghosn, Carlos Director; 2003Kawano, Hirobumi Director; 2003Kobayashi, Yotaro Director; 2003Lindahl, Goran Director; 2003Miyauchi, Yoshihiko Director; 2003Morio, Minoru Vice-president; 2003Nakatani, Iwao Director; 2003Ohnishi, Akihisa Director; 2003Okada, Akishige Director; 2003Stringer, Howard Vice-president; 2003Tokunaka, Teruhisa Chief Financial Officer; 2003Yamauchi, Yoshiaki Director; 2000Ando, Kunitake Chairman; 2000Kutaragi, Ken Director; 2000Masaki, Teruo Vice-president; 2000Ohga, Norio Chairman of the Board; 1999Idei, Nobuyuki Chief Executive Officer; Les Echos Highest paid executives in 2007 Advertising & marketing year dubious practice : image source 2006 Deceptive advertising: Sony created a forged blog to praise the merits of its PSP console. The blog was called “alliwantforxmasisapsp” and was written by a certain “Charlie”, an amateur hip-hop artist, and its cousin “Pete”. Its goal: to speak about the portable console of Sony. It is a miniscandale which put it on the front of the scene. Indeed, this blog was can, supplied with an agency of communication paid by Sony.: 01net.com 2005 Pour le lancement de la PSP, Sony a consacré un budget de publicité de 40 millions d'euros, l'équivalent de 160.000 consoles.: AFP 2005 Arguable partnership: Sony France offre des équipements informatiques et multimédia au futur musée du quai Branly, afin de mettre en valeur les dimensions interactives et pédagogiques de la médiathèque, du salon de lecture Jacques Kerchache et de l’espace multimédia du site.: value: Culture; CB-News 2005 Arguable partnership: Promesse d'un don pour les victimes du tsunami de 30 millions de yens: value: Humanitaire; AFP 2001 ad budget: 1218 million US$; Advertisin. 2000 ad budget: 1281 million US$; Advertisin. 1998 slogan: Un contrôle absolu par Sony.; 1998 ad budget: 1338 million US$; Advertisin. 1997 ad budget: 1214 million US$; Advertisin. 1996 ad budget: 1185 million US$; Advertisin. 1995 slogan: Sony video camera makes all the time.; 1994 slogan: See life from a different perspective.; 1992 slogan: Natural sound by Sony.; Dubious practices in 2007

Made by year employees <> social impact : country source 2006 -200 Relocation: Production de baladeurs à disque compact et minidisc transférée du Japon vers la Chine et la Malaisie.: Japan Les Echos 2006 -400 Closure/Bankruptcy: Sony will close its television-tube factory in San Diego, eliminating about 400 jobs.: United States of America AP 2005 -60 Internal restructuring: Restructuration de son activité commerciale en France, sans lien direct avec les 10.000 suppressions d'emplois dans le monde annoncées en septembre.: France Les Echos 2005 -10000 Closure/Bankruptcy: Sony will cut workforce by 6,6% by March 2008 and shut 11 factories. Sony will cut about 4,000 jobs in Japan and 6,000 overseas, and reduce the number of factories worldwide to 54 from 65, without specifying which countries would be affected.: Bloomberg 2005 Closure/Bankruptcy: Arrêt de sa production de téléviseurs à tube cathodique au Pays de galles: United Kingdom Les Echos 2004 162000 2004 -300 AFP 2003 161100 2003 -20000 Dow Jones . 2003 -250 AP 2003 -17000 Reuters 2002 168000 2001 -300 Reuters 2001 -500 AP 1998 177000 1994 130000 1993 126000 1992 119000 1991 112900 1990 95600 1989 78900 1988 60500 1987 48700 1986 44900 1985 44000 Layoff plans and labour conditions in 2007 Influence year purpose : intermediary/lobby : institution source 2001 Access to foreign market (through MAI, WTO, GATS), prevent binding environmental regulations : USCIB (US Council For International Business) : : US Government translate USCIB 2000 Prevent binding environmental regulations (environmental protection through economic growth, self-regulation and free trade) : WBCSD (World Business Council for Sustainable Development) : : United Nations translate Corporate . 1999 Market access and investment protection (through WTO, GATS), avoid social and environmental rules : ICC (International Chamber of Commerce) : : WTO, GATS translate Corporate . 1998 Regulation favorable to company's interests : Contribution to Candidate's Political Action Committee : amount: 110 thousand US$ : US President, Congress, Senate translate Center for. Influence in 2007 Financials year financial misdemeanor sales income source 2007 The European Commission (EC) has imposed a total of €74.8 million in fines on Sony, Fuji and Maxell for fixing the prices for professional videotapes sold to customers in Europe. Between 1999 and 2002, Sony, Fuji and Maxell managed to raise or otherwise control prices through a series of regular meetings and other illicit contacts. Sony was ordered to pay €47.2 million; Maxell was ordered to pay €14.4 million; Fuji was ordered to pay €13.2 million. Sony's fine was increased by 30% for obstructing the Commission's investigation during on-site inspections at its premises. Fuji's and Maxell's fines were reduced by 40% and 20% respectively because they co-operated with the investigation under the Commission's lenience policies. The cartel covered the two most popular professional videotape formats at the time: Betacam SP and Digital Betacam, which in 2001 totalled annual sales of some €115 million in the Europe. The Commission found that Sony, Fuji and Maxell, with a combined share of more than 85% of the professional video tape market, organised three successful rounds of price increases and endeavoured to stabilise prices whenever an increase was not possible.     AP 2006 The Council of competition fined Sony Computer Entertainment France 800 000 euros for imposing a unique price to all his distributors in France for the PlayStation 2 console (PS2), its games and accessories.     Conseil de. 2006 Sony's German offices were raided as part of a European Union probe into suspected price-fixing of SRAM chips. SRAM chips, unlike DRAM memory chips, retain the contents of their memory as long as power remains applied, and are also faster than DRAM chips. They are used for fast memory access, for example in the central processing units of computers.     Reuters 2005 Le Conseil de la concurrence sanctionne les fabricants Philips, Sony et Panasonic à hauteur de 34,4 millions d'euros pour avoir mis en place un système de prix de détail minimum imposés auprès de leurs distributeurs. Sony France est condamné à une amende de 16 millions d'euros. Le Conseil de la concurrence a considéré qu'il existait des indices graves, précis et concordants démontrant l'existence d'une entente entre les fabricants Philips, Sony et Panasonic et leurs distributeurs respectifs et a notamment retenu à cet égard comme éléments probants : * la communication de prix de détail « conseillés » aux grossistes et aux détaillants * l'alignement constaté des prix de vente d'un certain nombre de produits chez l'ensemble des distributeurs des marques concernées (une même référence de téléviseur par exemple étant, à quelques exceptions près, au même prix dans tous les magasins) * l'existence de mécanismes de surveillance et de contrôle des prix de détail (rappels à l'ordre téléphoniques de la part des fabricants ou des grossistes pour « faire remonter les prix », passage de représentants régionaux de la marque dans les points de vente, menaces de cessation de livraison ou de réduction des facilités financières octroyées) * l'existence - en ce qui concerne Philips et Sony - de contrats de coopération entre leurs revendeurs, procurant aux fabricants le contrôle de leur politique de publicité et de leur politique de prix.     Conseil de. 2005 Les sites britanniques de vente par correspondance ont porté plainte contre Sony et plusieurs autres fabricants d'équipement électronique pour pratiques anti-concurrentielles. Ils les accusent de pratiquer une double tarification: les supermarchés "physiques", systématiquement plus chers que les sites internet et confrontés à une baisse de leurs ventes, auraient fait pression sur Sony pour obtenir que celui-ci vende plus cher aux sites internet. Selon les plaignants, Sony aurait accepté et se rendrait donc coupable de double tarification, une pratique anti-concurrentielle interdite car elle aboutit à une hausse des prix pour le consommateur final.     The Scotsm. 2003   63.26 0.98   billion US$ 2002   57.12 0.12   billion US$ 2001   58.52 0.13   billion US$ 2000   63.08 1.15   billion US$ 1998   51.18 1.68   billion US$ 1994   36.25 0.15   billion US$ 1993   43.77 0.32   billion US$ 1992   29.49 0.9   billion US$ 1991   26.25 0.83   billion US$ 1990   18.62 0.65   billion US$ 1989   16.68 0.55   billion US$ 1988   11.66 0.27   billion US$ 1987   8.25 0.26   billion US$ 1986   5.81 0.34   billion US$ 1985   5.2 0.29   billion US$ Financial delinquency in 2007

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