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![]() Sony Corporation of America's headquarters located at 25 Madison Avenue, New York City | |
Company type | Subsidiary |
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Founded | February 15, 1960 |
Founder | Akio Morita |
Headquarters | 25 Madison Avenue, , U.S. |
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Number of employees | 33,234[1] |
Parent | Sony Group Corporation |
Subsidiaries | See § Subsidiaries |
Website | sony.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.