List of acquisitions by Sony Corporation
Sony Corporation (commonly referred to as Sony) (Japanese: ソニー株式会社, Sonī Kabushiki Kaisha) (TYO: 6758) is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest media conglomerates.
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As of March 2010, Sony Corporation has made 92 acquisitions while taking stakes at 56 companies. The company has 83 divestitures since 1983.
Acquisitions
Date | Company | Business | Country | Value | Used as / Integrated with | References |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
4 February 1982 | Music Center Incorporated | Professional audio | ![]() |
Sony Professional Products | [1] | |
5 January 1988 | CBS Records Group | Music | ![]() |
$2,000,000,000 | Sony Music Entertainment | [2] |
8 November 1989 | Columbia Pictures Entertainment | Movies/Television | ![]() |
$3,400,000,000 | Sony Pictures Entertainment | [3] |
9 November 1989 | Guber-Peters Entertainment | Movies/Television | ![]() |
$200,000,000 | Sony Pictures Entertainment | [4][5] |
21 May 1993 | Psygnosis Limited | Video Game | ![]() |
SCE Studio Liverpool | [6] | |
December 2000 | Eidetic Games | Video Game | ![]() |
Sony Bend | [7] | |
22 January 2001 | Naughty Dog | Video Game | ![]() |
Sony Interactive Entertainment | [8] | |
9 July 2002 | Acuff-Rose Music | Music Publishing | ![]() |
$157,000,000 | Sony/ATV | [9] |
7 August 2002 | Incognito Entertainment | Video Games | ![]() |
Sony Interactive Entertainment | [10] | |
27 September 2002 | Aiwa | Electronics | ![]() |
Sony Electronics | [11] | |
7 December 2005 | Guerrilla Games | Video Game | ![]() |
Sony Interactive Entertainment | [12] | |
25 January 2006 | Zipper Interactive | Video Game | ![]() |
Sony Interactive Entertainment | [13] | |
23 August 2006 | Grouper Networks | Video On Demand | ![]() |
$65,000,000 | Crackle | [14] |
30 May 2007 | Famous Music | Music publishing | ![]() |
$370,000,000 | Sony/ATV | [15][16] |
15 May 2007 | Sigil Games Online Inc | Video Game | ![]() |
Sony Online Entertainment | [17] | |
20 September 2007 | Evolution Studios | Video Game | ![]() |
Sony Interactive Entertainment | [18] | |
20 September 2007 | Bigbig Studios | Video Game | ![]() |
Sony Interactive Entertainment | [18] | |
2 July 2008 | Gracenote | Media Management | ![]() |
$260,000,000 | [19][20] | |
28 January 2010 | Convergent Media Systems Corporation | Video Integration | ![]() |
[21] | ||
10 February 2010 | iCyt Mission Technology | flow cytometers | ![]() |
[22] | ||
2 March 2010 | Media Molecule | Video Game | ![]() |
Sony Interactive Entertainment | [23][24] | |
28 February 2011 | Toshiba chip plant | Electronics | ![]() |
¥53,000,000,000 | Sony Electronics | [25] |
7 March 2011 | Hawk-Eye Innovations Ltd | Electronics | ![]() |
Sony Electronics | [26] | |
2 August 2011 | Sucker Punch Productions | Video Game | ![]() |
Sony Interactive Entertainment | [27] | |
28 September 2011 | Micronics, Inc. | Microfluidics-based diagnostic tools | ![]() |
Sony Corporation of America | [28] | |
16 February 2012 | Sony Ericsson | Electronics | ![]() ![]() |
$1,500,000,000 | Sony Electronics | [29] |
2 July 2012 | Gaikai | Cloud gaming | ![]() |
$380,000,000 | Sony Interactive Entertainment | [30] |
9 August 2012 | So-net | Information and communication | ![]() |
Sony | [31] | |
23 August 2012 | Left Bank Pictures | Film and television production | ![]() |
Sony Pictures Television | [32] | |
12 September 2012 | Pixim | Electronics | ![]() |
Sony Electronics | [33] | |
15 August 2014 | CSC Media Group | Television | ![]() |
$180,000,000 | Sony Pictures Television | [34][35] |
24 August 2015 | Century Media Records | Music | ![]() |
$20,000,000 | Sony Music Entertainment | [36] |
8 October 2015 | Softkinetic | Electronics | ![]() |
Sony Electronics | [37] | |
6 December 2015 | Toshiba image sensor | Electronics | ![]() |
$155,000,000 | Sony Electronics | [38] |
26 January 2016 | Altair Semiconductor | Electronics | ![]() |
$212,000,000 | Sony Electronics | [39] |
16 February 2016 | Plumbee | Games/Television | ![]() |
Sony Pictures Entertainment | [40] | |
2 August 2016 | eSATURNUS NV | Clinical Video | ![]() |
Sony | [41] | |
10 August 2016 | Ministry Of Sound | Music | ![]() |
Sony Music | [42] | |
31 August 2016 | Ten Sports | Television | ![]() |
$385,000,000 | Sony Pictures Network | [43] |
22 May 2018 | EMI Music Publishing | Music publishing | ![]() |
$2,300,000,000 | Sony/ATV Music Publishing | [44] |
8 January 2019 | Audiokinetic | Video Game | ![]() |
Sony Interactive Entertainment | [45] | |
10 June 2019 | Mido Holdings | Electronics | ![]() |
Sony Electronics | [46] | |
8 July 2019 | Nurulize | Movies/Virtual Reality | ![]() |
Sony Pictures Entertainment | [47] | |
19 August 2019 | Insomniac Games | Video Game | ![]() |
$229,000,000 | Sony Interactive Entertainment | [48] |
Stakes
Date | Company | Stake | Business | Country | Value | References |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
27 October 1997 | ST Liquid Crystal Display Corporation | 50% | LCD | ![]() |
[49] | |
1 October 2001 | Sony Ericsson | 50% | Mobile Phones | ![]() ![]() |
$250,000,000 | [50][51] |
8 October 2001 | Square Enix | 18.6%/currently 0% | Video Game | ![]() |
¥14,900,000,000 | [52][53] |
26 April 2004 | S-LCD | 50% minus 1 share | LCD | ![]() ![]() |
[54] | |
8 April 2005 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 20% | Movies/Television | ![]() |
$4,800,000,000 | [55] |
8 December 2009 | Fearnet | minority | Video On Demand | ![]() |
[56][57] | |
6 March 2007 | Cellius | 49% | Video Game | ![]() |
[58] | |
2 April 2007 | Field Emission Technologies Inc. | 33.5% | Field Emission Display | ![]() |
[59] | |
14 November 2007 | Moversa GmbH | 50% | Small Card Applications | ![]() ![]() |
[60] | |
1 July 2009 | Sharp Display Corporation | 7.04% | LCD Panels and Modules | ![]() |
[61][62] | |
8 December 2009 | Vevo | minority | Video On Demand | ![]() |
[63][64] | |
14 June 2012 | Multi Screen Media | majority | Television | ![]() |
$271,000,000 | [65] |
21 June 2012 | unnamed joint venture with Sumitomo Electric | Electronics | ![]() |
[66] | ||
25 June 2012 | unnamed joint venture with Panasonic | OLED | ![]() |
[67] | ||
28 June 2012 | Chemical Products Businesses of Development Bank of Japan | Chemical industry | ![]() |
[68][69] | ||
29 June 2012 | EMI Music Publishing | 30% | Music | ![]() ![]() |
$2,200,000,000 | [70] |
8 July 2015 | IMS Internet Media Services | majority | Digital marketing and communications | ![]() |
[71] | |
16 March 2016 | Fable Pictures | minority | Television | ![]() |
[72] | |
7 April 2016 | Planet TV | majority | Television | ![]() |
[73] | |
7 June 2016 | Blueprint Pictures | minority | Television | ![]() |
[74] | |
14 September 2018 | Eleventh Hour Films | minority | Television | ![]() |
[75] | |
27 June 2019 | Nevion | minority | Broadcast | ![]() |
[76] | |
Divestitures
Date | Acquirer | Target company | Target business | Acquirer country | Value | References |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
5 December 2008 | Sony | Sony NEC Optiarc | Sony Optiarc | ![]() |
[77] | |
1 January 2011 | Samsung Electronics | Transcorp. Company | Samsung Transcorp. Company | ![]() |
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14 February 2011 | Sony | Media Nusantara Citra | Sony MNC Networks | ![]() |
||
1 October 2008 | Sony | Sony BMG | Sony Music Entertainment | ![]() |
$1,200,000,000 | [78][79][80] |
20 February 2008 | Toshiba | Cell Chip Factory | Cell chip factory | ![]() |
¥90,000,000,000 | [81] |
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- "Toshiba to sell chip plant to Sony for ¥53 billion". 28 February 2011. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
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- "SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT TO ACQUIRE GAIKAI INC.,A LEADING INTERACTIVE CLOUD GAMING COMPANY" (PDF). Retrieved 2 July 2012.
- "Sony Corporation and So-net Entertainment Corporation commence procedures to make So-net Entertainment Corporation a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation" (PDF). Retrieved 9 August 2012.
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- "Sony buys Toshiba's image sensor business for $155m". Retrieved 9 December 2015.
- "Sony to Acquire Altair Semi For $212 Million". Retrieved 28 January 2016.
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- "SONY buys E-Saturnus". Archived from the original on 13 September 2016. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
- "Sony Music buys Ministry Of Sound Recordings". Retrieved 19 September 2016.
- "Sony Pictures Networks India to Acquire Ten Sports for $385 Million". Retrieved 15 September 2016.
- "Sony to Acquire Equity Interest in EMI Music Publishing" (PDF). Retrieved 19 June 2018.
- "Sony enters middleware business with Audiokinetic acquisition". Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- "Sony unit acquires Swiss network virtualization developer Mido Holdings". Retrieved 15 June 2019.
- "Sony Pictures Buys Nurulize, a Virtual Production Software Startup". Retrieved 9 July 2019.
- "Sony paid $229 million for Insomniac Games". 10 February 2020. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
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- Shareholder Information
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- "Operations Begin at World's First LCD Panel Plant Employing 10th-Generation Glass Substrates". Sharp Corporation. Retrieved 13 January 2010.
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- "Sumitomo Electric and Sony Announce the Joint-Development of the World's First True Green Semiconductor Laser Diode with over 100 mW Output Power at 530 nm".
- "Sony and Panasonic to Collaborate on the Joint Development of Next Generation OLED Panels for TVs/Large-sized Displays".
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- Sony sells $835m PS3 CPU plant to Toshiba
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