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Also known as: Sony Corporation, Sony KK, Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, Totsuko
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Sony Corporation
Date:
1946 - present
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Share price:
$85.678 (mkt close, Mar. 11, 2024)
CEO:
Kunimasa Suzuki
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Sony, major Japanese manufacturer of consumer electronics products whose diverse activities have included films, music, and financial services, among other ventures. It has been one of the most successful and multifaceted brands in marketing history. The company was incorporated by Ibuka Masaru and Morita Akio in 1946 as Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (“Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation”). Ibuka, whose Japan Precision Instruments Company had supplied electronic devices during World War II, and Morita, an applied sciences instructor, had met during World War II as engineers designing heat-seeking missiles for the Imperial Japanese Army. Ibuka and Morita worked together for the next 40 ...(100 of 1109 words)

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