Protecting the Earth: Sony’s “Responsibility” and “Contribution” (Presentation slides with speech script) / Kenichiro Yoshida, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer [PDF:3.65MB]
September 15, 2021 at 08:33 am EDT
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Sony Group ESG Briefing
Chairman, President and CEO
Sony Group Corporation
Kenichiro Yoshida
September 15, 2021 (JST)
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Purpose
People
Planet
Hello everyone. This is Kenichiro Yoshida.
At Sony, we are driving diverse businesses centered around the axis of people, based on our Purpose to "fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology."
Our ability to continue these corporate activities is based on the existence of a sustainable society and a healthy global environment.
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Sony and the Planet Earth
These are principles I shared in my first blog to employees following my appointment as President of Sony in 2018, titled "Sony and the Planet Earth."
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ResponsibilityContribution
There are two fundamental approaches we take to our environmental activities in the context of "Sony and the Planet Earth."
They are "Responsibility" and "Contribution."
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Responsibility
First, I will talk about our efforts to fulfill our "Responsibility" as a company.
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Sony Group Corporation (formerly Sony Corporation) is a world leader in designing, manufacturing, and selling electronics and entertainment products. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- game sales (28.9%): game consoles, softwares and consumables;
- sale of multimedia products (21.1%): televisions (37.3% of sales), mobile telecommunications equipment (18.8%), still and video cameras (17.7%), audio and video equipment (16.5%) and other (9.7%);
- music production and distribution (10.3%; Sony Music Entertainment);
- sale of imaging and sensing solutions (10.4%);
- cinematography production and distribution and TV broadcasting (8.4%): operating primarily on behalf of Sony Pictures and Columbia Pictures;
- other (2.4%).
The remaining sales (18.5%) are from financial services.
Net sales break down geographically as follows: Japan (32.9%), China (8.5%), Asia/Pacific (9.6%), the United States (23.9%), Europe (20.2%) and other (4.9%).
Protecting the Earth: Sony’s “Responsibility” and “Contribution” (Presentation slides with speech script) / Kenichiro Yoshida, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer [PDF
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