Executive Summary Sony Mobile Communications is a multinational mobile phone company and is a subsidiary of Sony Corporation. Problem Recognition Chart 1: Smartphone Operating Sales in Q4 2011 [pic]Source: Gartner 2011 Sony has been developing solid phones for more than a decade now‚ however‚ it has not been very successful in the smart phone industry. Referring to Chart 1‚ Sony only has 5% of the market share of the smart phone sales during 4th quarter of 2011. The lack of market share is
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Corporation Sony - Company information Sony Company was founded in 1946 in Tokyo physicist Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka engineer. The company consisted of 20 employees‚ they were engaged in the repair of electrical equipment and tried to create their own products. At that moment‚ any development and production have been hampered. Because of the post-war limits on the consumption of electricity has consistently exceeded this limit and "Tokyo Research Laboratory" kicked out of their official location
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SONY EMCS Supply Chain Management Group Members: Name | Metric No. | | | | | Loh Choong Young | 809366 | | | SONY The growth of Sony in Malaysia has been leaps and bounds over the past 30 years. From being merely a sales company‚ Sony now expanded their business horizon to marketing‚ manufacturing‚ engineering as well as entertainment industry in movie and music distribution. Aiming to be the No. 1 Preferred Brand in Malaysia‚ Sony (Malaysia) SdnBhd established on 21st January 1998 from
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On October 3‚ 2001 the Japanese consumer electronic company Sony corporation and Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson was established a joint venture called “Sony Ericsson” to make mobile phones. Both companies have stopped making their own mobile phones and combine Sony’s consumer electronics expertise with Ericsson’s technological leadership in the communications sector. In order to market their products‚ Sony Ericsson used the marketing mix strategies which is consist of the “four Ps” such
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there are few substitutes from other industries (if any); and most of them are seemed to be obsolete or have on foot out of the door‚ e.g. digit camera in the place of film camera and fax machines in place of overnight mail delivery. Consider that Sony has built a good reputation and strong customer loyalty‚ it effectively position the company’s products against product substitute to some extent; this is a surplus for the company. 2. Bargaining Power of Buyers (HIGH) The power of buyer is high
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case study of: “Sony Targets Laptop Consumers in China” -By: Kellogg School of Management‚ Sachin Waikar PROBLEM DEFINITION BACKGROUND AND DATA ANALYSIS In China 74% of the people own a desktop and about half the population owns a laptop‚ considering that half of the country has broadband internet connection‚ and of the households that own a laptop almost 80% have internet at home‚ the market for laptop in China is very interesting for Sony. Howeve‚ in the past years‚ Sony has been facing
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History How and when was the organization founded? Sony was founded by two engineers‚ Akio Monita‚ a physicists and Masaru Ibuka. It was Ibuka who‚ after the end of World War II‚ originally founded a radio repair shop. The following year his friend Akio Monita joined him with twenty other fellow workers from the Japan Precision Instrument and Co. company and together they formed a company named Tokyo Tsushin Kenkyujo (Tokyo Telecommunications Laboratory). It was on that day; May 7th of 1946
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Case Analysis for SONY VAIO target consumers in China KULDIP MEDHE NORTHEND CORE ISSUE Which segments of population should Mr. Richard Lopez‚ the product manager for Sony corporation target for positioning of its new brand of laptops “VAIO” in the Chinese market. CONCERNS AND OBJECTIVE Mr. Lopez had too much data to analyze and draft his marketing plan. He was working on three market research reports‚ a study on consumer values‚ qualitative interview data‚ a segmentation study completed
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Joint Venture and Diversification 3.3. Restructuring 4. Today’s Sony 5. Recommendation 6. Conclusion 7. Reference 1. Executive Summary Sony started the business as a small electronics shop and after 67 years hard works‚ Sony has became one of leading entertainment company in the world now. Keep innovate on new technology is one of the core element to make continue success of Sony. Moreover‚ Sony has became a global conglomerate corporate group‚ so to keep organization
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strategies should be pursued. Sony could commence with the implementation of a new mission verbal expression‚ with profit and benefits of the company tied more proximately to everyday operations. Internally‚ the four forces‚ the management‚ the designers‚ the engenderment and the marketing should achieve better communication and cooperation. Coalition and cooperation between competitors should additionally be actively sort after in order to engender standards in new fields. Sony should aim at being the
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