With its music, pictures, game and online businesses Sony is uniquely positioned to be one of the world's leading consumer brands, currently employing 180,500 people worldwide.

Sony Europe, headquartered at the Sony Center am Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, is a subsidiary of Sony Corporation, Tokyo. Sony Europe handles manufacturing, R&D, design, sales and marketing of consumer and business products in Europe.

Consolidated Annual Sales

• Sony recorded consolidated global annual sales of EUR 55.44 billion (yen 8,871 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2008, based on an average market exchange rate for the same period of yen 160.0 to the EUR.
• In Europe, the Sony Group recorded consolidated annual sales of EUR 12.73 billion (yen 2,328 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2008.
• Sony Europe, headquartered at the Sony Center am Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, is responsible for the company's European electronics business and registered consolidated sales of EUR 9.55 billion for the same period.

Workforce

• Worldwide total: approx. 180,500 (as of March 31, 2008).

Research & Development and Design & Development Sites in Europe

• Brussels, Belgium
• Alsace, France
• Paris, France
• Stuttgart, Germany
• Barcelona, Spain
• Basingstoke, UK
• Pencoed, UK

Manufacturing Technical Centres in Europe

• Alsace, France
• Dax, France
• Gödöllö, Hungary
• Trnava, Slovak Republic
• Nitra, Slovak Republic
• Barcelona, Spain
• Pencoed, UK

More About Sony

• A leading global audio-visual electronics and information technology company
• The second largest music company in the world
• A leading motion picture and television production company
• The co-developer of the CD, DVD, and Super Audio CD
• The developer, manufacturer and marketer of PlayStation® and PlayStation®2 game consoles
• The inventor of a wide range of consumer audio-visual products, such as the FD Trinitron® WEGA® television, Mavica® digital camera, Digital8® Handycam® camcorder, Walkman® personal stereo, MiniDisc player/recorder, and the Memory Stick®IC flash media; IT products, including VAIO® personal computers, FD Trinitron® computer display, the 3.5-inch floppy disk, and CLIÉTM handheld; and professional products, highlighted by the HDCAM® 24-P, Digital Betacam® and DVCAM® VTR and camera formats
• A publicly held company, with shares listed on 16 stock exchanges worldwide, including Tokyo, New York, and London
• A company with 1,035 consolidated subsidiaries worldwide