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Sony


Sony is a leading consumer electronics and entertainment company gloablly.

The Japanese electonics giant continues to be dogged by faulty notebook battery problems. Recently, batteries manufactured by the company were again blamed as the culprit in over 40 incidents of notebooks overheating worldwide, more than two years after the largest battery recall in the electonics industry.

In August, Sony opened a US$106 million facility in Singapore to manufature lithium ion polymer batteries.

Founded in 1946, Sony is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It has about 180,500 employees and ranks 75th among the 2008 Fortune Global 500 companies.

Sony's main businesses are in audio-visual produts, television, information and communications and semiconductors, as well as electonic components.

Sony ranks among ZDNet Asia's Top 10 fastest-growing companies for 2008/2009.

This company is listed in Systems, Data storage management.



Financials
Fiscal year-end March FY08 FY07 FY06 FY05 FY04
Global revenue (US$millions) 88,048.5 70,746.2 64,041.0 68,323.5 —
Global full-year net income (US$millions) 2,608.7 410.6 936.4 1,341.2 —
Average year-on-year revenue growth over 4 years 9.55%
Average year-on-year net income growth over 4 years 149.66%
Percentage of revenue from Asia —

Operations
Founded 1946 Japan
First Asian office 1962 Hong Kong
Global employees 180,501
Global employees in Asia —
Asian economies: Total 10 China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam

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