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Swot Analysis Of Sony

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COMPANY DESCRIPTION
• Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corp, was founded in 1946 and has changed its name to Sony in 1958.
• Sony has established globally recognized brands for its products such as VAIO, Walkman and Play Stations.
• Sony is a conglomerate company. It has expanded its business segments in electronics, entertainments and financial services and continues restructuring. Figure 10 illustrates revenue by Sony’s segments. Data is mainly taken from Bloomberg (for standardized values) but with adjustment from data in IR website to project revenue under new segments. Description of each business segment is available in Appendix 1.
PAST PERFORMANCE
• Revenue and operating income in FY3/13 have returned to the same level in FY3/08. …show more content…

o Costs are incurred from establishment of power supply and camera module businesses in Device.
COMPANY ANALYSIS
STRATEGY ANALYSIS
SWOT ANALYSIS
STRENGTH
• Sony’s commitment to R&D and innovation enabled the company to offer products with top quality helping to maintain the strong Sony’s brands.
• Pictures, Music and Financial Service have been stable revenue contributors, which are able to compensate loss made in electronics to some extent.
WEAKNESS
• Sony lacks in foresight as suggested by Euromonitor International (2013) that its delayed entry to the market has resulted in difficulty to take away the market share from its competitors.
• Sony focuses on producing high quality products, which essentially requires high costs according to Euromonitor International (2013).
• A large amount of assets are with risks of impairment loss as identified in the Structural Reform section.
OPPORTUNITY
• Combination of gaming and network service is a new and unique idea, which is only possible in a conglomerate company like Sony, and it can potentially be a large profit contributor in the medium

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