About
Sony Group
Message
from the CEO
Beyond the Boundaries,
Towards Further Growth
At the Sony Group, we are committed to our Purpose centered on Kando and our corporate direction of getting closer to people, as we take on the challenge of achieving further growth. In our fifth Mid-Range Plan, which began in FY2024, based on the theme "Beyond the boundaries: Maximize Synergies across the Group," we are strengthening efforts to realize Group-wide synergies and further enhance our resilience to changes in the business environment, as we continue to strive to increase our corporate value.
Across the Group, each business is leveraging its unique strengths to achieve sustainable growth. For example, in the Game & Network Services segment, we connect players with their friends through gameplay. In the Music segment, we are achieving growth through our efforts to build strong relationships with an expanding roster of outstanding talent, streaming platforms, and audiences. The Pictures segment serves as a hub for cross-company collaborations, including film and TV adaptations of game IP. In the Entertainment, Technology & Services segment, we are expanding our sports business and creating technologies and solutions that expand the boundaries of content production. Meanwhile, in the Imaging & Sensing Solutions segment, image sensors provide a critical technological foundation that supports a wide range of businesses. In addition, anime has become an important growth area spanning multiple businesses across the Group.
The "Creative Entertainment Vision," the long-term vision that we defined in 2024, envisions a future where, in a multi-layered world where the physical and the virtual overlap, we will work with creators to create and deliver endless Kando, through the power of creativity and technology. Towards this future, we plan to work together with creators, fans, and our partners to steadily maximize the value of our IP beyond existing boundaries, while continually evolving the diversity of our businesses and people to achieve further growth.
Creative
Entertainment
Vision
We launched our Creative Entertainment Vision – our long-term vision which seeks to leverage the power of technology to empower creators, deliver new experiences across both physical and digital space, and maximize the value of IPs.
Sony's
Purpose & Values
Purpose
Fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology.
- Sony's Purpose Video (opens in a new window)
- Sony's Purpose Video (with Audio Description) (opens in a new window)
Values
- Dreams & Curiosity
- Pioneer the future with dreams and curiosity.
- Diversity
- Pursue the creation of the very best by harnessing diversity and varying viewpoints.
- Integrity & Sincerity
- Earn the trust for the Sony brand through ethical and responsible conduct.
- Sustainability
- Fulfill our stakeholder responsibilities through disciplined business practices.
Our Business Portfolio
The Sony Group is a creative entertainment company with a solid foundation of technology. Its business segments encompass Game & Network Services (G&NS), Music, Pictures, Entertainment, Technology & Services (ET&S), and Imaging & Sensing Solutions (I&SS).
Sony Group Corporation
As the headquarters responsible for the overall management of the Sony Group, we operate with a core focus on business portfolio management and capital allocation. Through the creation of group synergies, business incubation, and continuous investment in human capital and technology, we contribute to the maximization of long-term corporate value.
Business Segments
Game & Network Services
Through our PlayStation line of products and services, Sony Interactive Entertainment delivers innovative and thrilling experiences to a global audience. We develop generation-defining hardware, pioneering network services, and award-winning games.
Music
Sony Music Group is the world's second-largest music company, comprising some of the world's premier music businesses, including the world's largest music publisher. We are involved in nearly every aspect of the music business to help artists and songwriters at every stage of their careers. As a comprehensive entertainment enterprise, Sony Music Group (Japan) is engaged not only in music, but also in a wide range of businesses, including anime and games through Aniplex (opens in a new window) and solutions businesses.
Pictures
Sony Pictures Entertainment's (SPE) global operations encompass motion picture production, acquisition, and distribution; television production, acquisition, and distribution; television networks; digital content creation and distribution; operation of studio facilities; development of new entertainment products, services and technologies; and the operation of Crunchyroll (opens in a new window), its wholly-owned anime-focused brand centered around its premium streaming service.
Entertainment, Technology & Services
Sony Corporation empowers creators to explore new possibilities in creative expression through a wide range of products and solutions, ranging from consumer to professional use, across imaging, audio, and other domains. Through technologies and services related to sports data and spatial content creation such as 3D CG, we are also striving to create new entertainment.
Imaging & Sensing Solutions
Sony Semiconductor Solutions holds the world's leading market share in image sensors, which form the core of our business. Often referred to as the "eyes of electronics," image sensors are used in a wide range of applications, including smartphones, digital cameras, automobiles, and industrial equipment. Through advanced imaging and sensing technologies, we expand the visual and recognition capabilities of both people and machines, contributing to the development of a more prosperous society and industry.
Group Company
Sony Financial Group
Sony Financial Group operates a diverse range of businesses, including life insurance, non-life insurance, banking, nursing care, and corporate venture capital. We support each customer in living true to themselves and help enrich their lives through long-term relationships built on trust. By leveraging the Sony Group's distinctive brand and technology, we create new value that extends beyond traditional financial services.
Corporate Governance
Sony Group considers corporate governance an essential foundation for our business in order to fulfill the company's corporate social responsibility and enact management which increases corporate value over the mid-to-long-term. To enhance its effectiveness, we are committed to building up and continuously strengthening our governance system.
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History
Sony Group started as “Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K.*” in May 1946.
Co-founder Masaru Ibuka wrote in the Founding Prospectus that the purpose of incorporation was to "establish an ideal factory that stresses a spirit of freedom and open mindedness that will, through technology, contribute to Japanese culture."
Symbolizing Sony's spirit of challenge to "do what has never been done before," the company has created countless "Japan's first" and "world's first" products and services, and continues to take on new challenges.
* Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. was renamed Sony Corporation in 1958, and Sony Group Corporation in 2021.
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