Sony Company Guide

Sony digital entertainment

Offering a complete end-to-end HD value chain and with its electronics, music, pictures, game and online businesses, Sony is one of the world’s leading digital entertainment brands, employing approximately 170,000 people worldwide

Sony audio visual

Sony is a leading global innovator of audio, video, communications and information technology products for both the consumer and professional markets.

Short history of Sony

Sony was founded in 1946 under the original name of Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Company) by Masaru Ibkua and Akio Morita.

After a slight setback of the downturn of the Japanese economy after the Second World War, the pair decided to expand the business internationally.

The company’s name was officially changed to Sony Corporation in 1958, due to the fact there was already a company called TTK, but the first Sony branded product, a TR-55 transistor radio, went on sale in 1955.
Sony has now expanded to become a well known global brand. Sony UK was set up in 1968 and now employs around 4,500.