3. Company Profile
Product Marketing Strategy
SWOT Analysis
Vision & Mission
Sony Business Units
Competitors
4. COMPANY
PROFILESony is the Japanese company and known all over
the world.
Founded - May7, 1946
Headquarter- Tokyo
Co- Founder – Masaru Ibuka
Founder- Akio Morita
5. COMPANY
PROFILEIn 1947 Company name was TOKYO
TSUSHIN KOGYO ( Tokyo Telecommunications
Engineering Corporation).
First Product - First Tape recorder called
Type – G.
In 1958, company formally adopted Sony
Corporation” as its corporate name.
Sony is the combination of two words Sonus-
Sound & Sonny- Little son.
6.
7. Electronics:
•Audio, Video, Televisions Information and
Communications.
Sony Computer Entertainment:
•Hardware and related software
Sony Music Entertainment:
•Sony Music Entertainment Inc.: Columbia Records, Sony
Classical, Sony Discos, Sony Disc Manufacturing, and
Sony Music Nashville
•Sony Music Entertainment Japan: Sony Records and Epic
Records
8. Sony Pictures Entertainment –
•motion picture - production, acquisition and
distribution
•television – programming, production, acquisition and
distribution
•home video - acquisition and distribution
•television broadcasting
•operation of studio facilities
Sony Life Insurance
Other:
•Sony Finance International, Inc.
•Sony Trading International Corporation
•Sony Broadcast Media Co. Ltd.
•Other local entertainment businesses in Japan, U.S.,
and Germany.
9. PRODUCT MARKET STRATEGYPRODUCT MARKET STRATEGY
1)To make this vision a reality, Sony is strived to
strengthen the core electronic business.
2)By applying information technologies to product
design, production, distribution, and sales. This
will strengthen the value of Sony's music, pictures,
game and financial services businesses, as they
become available over networks.
3)Sony is releasing network-focused products in
four categories: digital tvs and set-top boxes,vaio
home-use pcs, play station and mobile devices.
12. PLACE
Sony distributes its products through-
1.)Zero-level channel
2.)One level channel
3.)Two-level channel
In Pakistan, Sony has used the method of
One-level distribution channel
Manufacturer retailer
17. Strategy and Organization
• Continue to focus on communications and home
electric appliances, but also content and services.
• Vertically integrated business.
• CEO Idei Nobuyuki wants Sony to be wherever
people gather (internet).
• Product-market strategy: Apply IT to product
design, production, distribution, and sales .
18. Mobile : LG, Nokia, Samsung
IT & Computing : IBM, Zenith, Compaq
Portable Audio : Apple
TV & Other Accessories : LG, Onida,
Samsung, Videocon
Gaming : Microsoft Xbox
Car entertainment : Kenwood, Panasonic