Sony Corporation of America

Sony Corporation of America
Company typeSubsidiary
Industry
FoundedFebruary 15, 1960 (1960-02-15)
FounderAkio Morita
Headquarters 25 Madison Avenue
New York City, New York,
U.S.
Key people
  • Kenichiro Yoshida (chairman, president, and CEO)
  • Steven Kober (executive vice president and CFO)
Number of employees
33,234[1]
ParentSony Group Corporation
SubsidiariesSee § Subsidiaries
Websitesony.com/SCA/

The Sony Corporation of America (SONAM,[2] also known as SCA) is the American arm of the Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation.[3] Headquartered in New York City, the company manages Sony's business in the United States.[4]

Sony's principal U.S. businesses include Sony Corporation, Sony Interactive Entertainment and Sony Entertainment (Sony Music Group and Sony Pictures Entertainment).

It was reported in December 2016 by multiple news outlets that Sony was considering restructuring its U.S. operations by merging its television and 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 then CEO, Andrew House, though he would not have assumed day-to-day operations of the film studio.[5][6][7] According to one report, Sony was set to make a final decision on the possibility of the merger of the television, film and gaming businesses by the end of its fiscal year in March of the following year (2017).[5] By January 2020, nothing had materialized.

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  2. ^ "Sony Japan | Sony History 第10章 ソニーアメリカの設立". www.sony.co.jp. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
  3. ^ "Corporate Fact Sheet".
  4. ^ "Who We Are". Sony Corporation of America. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
  5. ^ a b Aldrich, Rachel (December 12, 2016). "Why would Sony merge its gaming and film units?". TheStreet.
  6. ^ Atkinson, Claire (December 12, 2016). "Sony considers merging gaming and film divisions". New York Post.
  7. ^ Cooke, Chris. "Revamp of Sony's entertainment business could more closely align Sony Music with Sony/ATV". Complete Music Update.

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