List of assets owned by Sony

This is the list of assets owned by Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation.

Subsidiaries and affiliates by business segment

Electronics

Sony Electronics Corporation[1]
- Sony Global Manufacturing & Operations Corporation
- Sony Imaging Products & Solutions Inc.
- Sony Home Entertainment & Sound Products Inc.
- Sony Mobile Communications Inc.

Semiconductors

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation
- Sony LSI Design Inc.
- Altair Semiconductor
- Sony Depthsensing Solutions
- Sony Advanced Visual Sensing

Financial Services

Sony Financial Holdings Inc.
- Sony Life Insurance Co., Ltd.
- Sony Assurance Inc.
- Sony Bank Inc.
- Sony Lifecare Inc.

Foundations and schools

Sony Foundation for Education
Sony Music Foundation
Sony USA Foundation Inc.
Sony Foundation Australia Trustee Ltd.
Sony of Canada Science Scholarship Foundation Inc.
Sony Europe Foundation
Shohoku College

Subsidiaries and affiliates by location

Japan

Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.
- Sony Music Labels Inc.
- Sony Music Marketing Inc.
- Sony Music Communications Inc.
- Sony Music Artists Inc.
- Sony Creative Products Inc.
- Sony DADC Japan Inc.
Sony Pictures Entertainment (Japan) Inc.
- AK Holdings Corporation
  - Animax Broadcast Japan Inc.
  - Kids Station Inc.
- AXN Japan Inc.
- Mystery Channel, Inc.
Sony Energy Devices Corporation[7]
Sony Network Communications Inc.
- Sony Biz Networks Corporation
- So-net Media Networks Co.,Ltd
- MotionPortrait, Inc.
Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.
Sony PCL Inc.
Sony Marketing Co., Ltd.
Sony Global Solutions Inc.
Sony Business Solutions Corporation
Sony Global Education, Inc.
P5, Inc.
FeliCa Networks, Inc. (57%)
AII Inc. (60.9%)
Frontage Inc. (60%)
Sony Real Estate Corporation (56.3%)
Aerosense Inc. (joint venture with ZMP Inc., Sumitomo Corporation)[8]
M3 Inc. (34%)
Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. (51%)[9]
Sony Enterprise Co.,Ltd.
- Ginza Sony Park
Sony People Solutions Inc.

Canada

Sony Canada

United States

Sony Corporation of America
- Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC.
- Sony Entertainment Inc.
  - Sony Music Group
  - Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.
- Sony Creative Software
- Sony Digital Audio Disc Corporation
- Sony Magnetic Products Inc. of America
- Sony Latin America

Latin America

Sony Argentina S.A.
Sony Comércio e Indústria Ltda. (Brazil)
Sony Componentes Ltda. (Brazil)
Sony da Amazônia Ltda. (Brazil)
Sony Chile Ltda. (Chile)
Sony de México S.A. de C.V.
Sony de Mexicali, S.A. de C.V. (Mexico)
Sony Nuevo Laredo, S.A. de C.V. (Mexico)
Sony de Tijuana Oeste, S.A. de C.V. (Mexico)
Sony Corporation of Panama, S. A.
Sony Puerto Rico, Inc.
Sony Pictures Home Entertaiment de México S.A. de C.V.[10]

Europe

Sony Austria GmbH.
Sony DACD Austria A.G.
Sony DADC Europe Limited
Sony DADC, OOO (Borovsk, Russia)
Sony Service Centre (Europe) N.V. (Brussels, Belgium)
Sony Overseas S.A. (Switzerland)
Sony Czech, spol. s.r.o.
Sony Berlin G.m.b.H. (Germany)
Sony Deutschland G.m.b.H. (Köln, Germany)
Sony Europe GmbH (Germany)
Sony Nordic A/S (Denmark)[11]
Sony España S.A. (Spain)
Sony France S.A.
Sony United Kingdom Ltd.
Sony Global Treasury Service Plc (UK)
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited (UK)
Sony Hungaria Kft. (Hungary)
Sony Italia S.p.A. (Italy)
Sony Benelux B.V. (Netherlands)
Sony Europa B.V. (Netherlands)
Sony Logistics Europe B.V. (Netherlands)
Sony Poland Sp.z.o.o. (Poland)
Sony Portugal Ltda. (Portugal)
Sony Slovakia s r. o. (Slovakia)

China

Sony (China) Ltd.
Beijing Suohong Electronics Co., Ltd.
Shanghai Suoguang Visual Products Co., Ltd.
Shanghai Suoguang Electronics Co., Ltd.
Sony Electronics (Wuxi) Co., Ltd.
Sony Corporation of Hong Kong Ltd.
Sony International (Hong Kong) Ltd.

South Korea

Sony Electronics of Korea Corporation
Sony Korea Corporation

India

Sony India Private Limited
Sony India Software Services Pvt. Ltd[12]
Sony Pictures Networks India

Southeast Asia and Oceania

PT Sony Indonesia
Sony Electronics (Malaysia) SDN. BHD.
Sony Technology (Malaysia) SDN. BHD.
Sony Philippines, Inc.
Sony Electronics (Singapore) Pte. LTD.
Sony Magnetic Products (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
Sony Mobile Electronics (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
Sony Device Technology (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
Sony Siam Industries Co., Ltd.
Sony Australia Limited
Sony Computer Entertainment Australia Pty. Ltd
Sony New Zealand Ltd.
Sony Vietnam Ltd.

Middle East

Sony Middle East and Africa FZE (UAE)
Sony Eurasia Pazarlama A.S. (Turkey)

Non-affiliate holdings

Japan

United States

Epic Games (1.4%)[14]
Mangamo (unknown amount)[15]

Mainland China

Bilibili Inc. (~5%)

Europe

Spotify Technology S.A. (2.35%)[16]

Former holdings and subsidiaries

Sold

Avex Group[17]
Chart Show TV - Sold to TRACE Group
Chart Show Hits - Sold to TRACE Group (itself closed on 1 June 2020)
Crackle - Sold to Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment
Embassy Films Associates - sold to De Laurentiis Entertainment Group in 1985; library currently owned by STUDIOCANAL and distributed for television by Sony
Embassy Home Entertainment - acquired by Nelson Holdings International in 1986 and renamed Nelson Entertainment; current library holder Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer owns American home entertainment rights to some Embassy films
Evolution Studios - Sold to Codemasters
FEARnet HD (jointly owned by Comcast and Lions Gate Entertainment) - Sold to Comcast and folded into Syfy and Chiller
Film1 - closed, then relaunched by SPI International in 2019
Gracenote - Sold to Tribune Media (later sold to Nielsen)
Movielink (jointly owned by Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Warner Bros.) - Sold to Blockbuster LLC
The Orchard Film Group - divested and renamed 1091 Media
Sony Chemicals Corporation - Sold off and became Dexerials.
Sony Online Entertainment - Sold to Columbus Nova and became Daybreak Game Company
Starz TV - Sold to TRACE Group (itself closed on 1 June 2020)
The Vault - Sold to TRACE Group
Syco Entertainment (excl. Syco Music)[6] - Stake held by Sony sold back to Simon Cowell

Defunct

Sony Pictures Entertainment

HOOQ
3D NetCo LLC (3net, jointly owned with Discovery Communications and IMAX)
Animax Europe
- Animax (Germany)
Bliss
Bud Yorkin Productions, Inc./Toy Productions
Coca-Cola Telecommunications
- The Television Program Source
Colex Enterprises
Columbia Television Game Shows, Inc.
- Barry & Enright Productions
- Stewart Television, Inc.
  - Basada, Inc.
  - Stewart Cable TV, Inc.
Destination Films
Embassy Communications, Inc.
- ELP Communications
- Tandem Licensing Corp.
First Independent Films
Flava
Four-D Productions, Inc. - produced Barney Miller
- The Mimus Corporation - produced Fish
- The Triseme Corporation - produced A.E.S. Hudson Street
- Tetagram Ltd. - produced Joe Bash
GPEC Inc. (The Guber-Peters Entertainment Company)
- Barris Industries
  - Barris Advertising Sales, Inc.
  - Barris Program Sales, Inc.
Merv Griffin Enterprises
Movies4Men 2
Pop Girl
Rastar Productions, Inc.
- Rastar Television, Inc.
Scarlet Media - Closed down after Simon Andrae went to FOX
Scuzz
Sony Pictures Family Entertainment Group
Sony Pictures Mobile
Spelling-Goldberg Productions
SVS, Inc. - folded into Columbia TriStar Home Video
Triumph Films
True Crime
True Drama
True Movies 2
TV1 General Entertainment Partnership (jointly owned by SPT, CBS Studios International and NBCUniversal)
- TV1
- SF
Silver River Productions
Victory Television - Shut down after Victoria Ashbourne stepped down

Sony Music

550 Music
Abril Music - bought from Editora Abril in 2003 by BMG and absorbed by Ariola Records
Battery Records (hip hop)
Bertelsmann Music Group
- Beyond Records
- Bluebird Records
- BMG Heritage Records
  - Buddah Records
- BMG Kidz
BNA Records
Burgundy Records
Chaos Recordings
C2 Records
Colpix Records/Colgems Records
Francis, Day & Hunter Ltd.
Frenchkiss Label Group
Indolent Records
J Records
Kinetic Records
LaFace Records
Logic Records
MTM Music Group
- MTM Records
- BriarPatch Music
- CottonPatch Music
- DebDave Music, Inc.
- Mallven Music
Multitone Records
Novus Records
Odd Future Records
Ode Records
Odyssey Records
Philles Records
Playbill Records
Private Music
Profile Records
RCA Camden
RCA Gold Seal
RCA Italiana
RCA Victrola
Ruthless Records
S2 Records
Windham Hill Records
- Living Music
Vinyl Solution
Windswept Pacific Music - catalog acquired by EMI Music Publishing
Work Group
Zomba Group of Companies
- Benson Records
- Capricorn Records
- Internal Affairs
- Jive Records
- Scotti Brothers Records
- Silvertone Records
- Sub•Lime Records
- Zoo Entertainment

Sony Pictures Networks India

Game & Network Services

References

"Sony will merge its phone, camera and home entertainment businesses". GSMArena.com. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
Spangler, Todd (2017-07-31). "Sony Pictures TV Networks to Acquire Funimation, Valuing Anime Distributor at $150 Million". Variety. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
DTVE Reporter (9 August 2017). "Sony to rebrand Kix children's channel to Pop Max". digitaltveurope.com. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
"Sony Pictures Television Revamps Entertainment Portfolio And Launches UK's First Free-To-Air Movie Network". Sky Media. 24 July 2019. Sony-owned entertainment channel True Entertainment will be relaunched as Sony Channel.
"Channel profile: Sony Crime Channel - Sky Media". Sky Media.
White, Peter (2020-07-15). "Simon Cowell To Take Full Control Of 'Got Talent' Producer Syco Entertainment, Buys Out Sony Music's Stake". Deadline. Retrieved 2020-07-15. Sony Music will retain the JV’s music assets, including its roster of current artists and back catalog.
"Murata Manufacturing and Sony Sign Definitive Agreement for the Transfer of Battery Business". Sony Global - Sony Global Headquarters. Retrieved 2020-07-14. Business operations related to consumer sales of Sony-branded USB batteries, ... as well as certain other products, will not be part of the Transfer.
"English". エアロセンス株式会社 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-07-14.
"Establishment of Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc". Sony Global - Sony Global Headquarters. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
"Clarification on Disney/Fox transaction" (PDF). Cofece. February 6, 2019. Retrieved February 17, 2019.
"Sony Mobile's division in Sweden will be merged in Sony Nordic". GSMArena.com. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
Bailay, Rasul. "Sony India separates sales, software units". Retrieved 2015-08-15.
"Japan's Denso considering $440 million investment in JOLED: Kyodo". Reuters. 2017-12-26. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
"Sony invests $250 million in Fortnite maker Epic Games". VentureBeat. 2020-07-09. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
"Sony invests in new manga service Mangamo as it expands to Android". Gamesradar. November 23, 2020. Retrieved November 23, 2020.
Ingham, Tim (2020-02-23). "Who Really Owns Spotify?". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2020-07-14. Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group ... own ... (Sony around 2.35 percent and Universal around 3.5)
"Billboard". 110 (9). February 28, 1998: 85. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved December 31, 2012. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

External links

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[1] "Sony will merge its phone, camera and home entertainment businesses". GSMArena.com. Retrieved 2020-07-14.

[2] Spangler, Todd (2017-07-31). "Sony Pictures TV Networks to Acquire Funimation, Valuing Anime Distributor at $150 Million". Variety. Retrieved 2020-07-14.

[3] DTVE Reporter (9 August 2017). "Sony to rebrand Kix children's channel to Pop Max". digitaltveurope.com. Retrieved 1 October 2019.

[4] "Sony Pictures Television Revamps Entertainment Portfolio And Launches UK's First Free-To-Air Movie Network". Sky Media. 24 July 2019. Sony-owned entertainment channel True Entertainment will be relaunched as Sony Channel.

[5] "Channel profile: Sony Crime Channel - Sky Media". Sky Media.

[SycoEntSold-6] White, Peter (2020-07-15). "Simon Cowell To Take Full Control Of 'Got Talent' Producer Syco Entertainment, Buys Out Sony Music's Stake". Deadline. Retrieved 2020-07-15. Sony Music will retain the JV’s music assets, including its roster of current artists and back catalog.

[7] "Murata Manufacturing and Sony Sign Definitive Agreement for the Transfer of Battery Business". Sony Global - Sony Global Headquarters. Retrieved 2020-07-14. Business operations related to consumer sales of Sony-branded USB batteries, ... as well as certain other products, will not be part of the Transfer.

[8] "English". エアロセンス株式会社 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-07-14.

[9] "Establishment of Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc". Sony Global - Sony Global Headquarters. Retrieved 2020-07-14.

[DisneySony-10] "Clarification on Disney/Fox transaction" (PDF). Cofece. February 6, 2019. Retrieved February 17, 2019.

[11] "Sony Mobile's division in Sweden will be merged in Sony Nordic". GSMArena.com. Retrieved 2020-07-15.

[12] Bailay, Rasul. "Sony India separates sales, software units". Retrieved 2015-08-15.

[13] "Japan's Denso considering $440 million investment in JOLED: Kyodo". Reuters. 2017-12-26. Retrieved 2020-08-22.

[14] "Sony invests $250 million in Fortnite maker Epic Games". VentureBeat. 2020-07-09. Retrieved 2020-07-09.

[15] "Sony invests in new manga service Mangamo as it expands to Android". Gamesradar. November 23, 2020. Retrieved November 23, 2020.

[16] Ingham, Tim (2020-02-23). "Who Really Owns Spotify?". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2020-07-14. Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group ... own ... (Sony around 2.35 percent and Universal around 3.5)

[Billboard-17] "Billboard". 110 (9). February 28, 1998: 85. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved December 31, 2012. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

List of assets owned by Sony

Subsidiaries and affiliates by business segment

Electronics

Semiconductors

Sony Pictures Entertainment

Music

Game & Network Services

Financial Services

Foundations and schools

Subsidiaries and affiliates by location

Japan

Canada

United States

Latin America

Europe

China

South Korea

India

Southeast Asia and Oceania

Middle East

Non-affiliate holdings

Japan

United States

Mainland China

Europe

Former holdings and subsidiaries

Sold

Defunct

See also

References

External links