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<u>Background:</u> Sony Corporation was founded by Masaru Ibuka and his colleague Akio Morita in 1946 as an electronics shop known as Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo. Hoping to make it in the international sector, they went through several rejected brand name suggestions before finally settling for "Sony", derived from the Latin "sonus" (the root word for "sonic" and "sound") and the English "sonny" (American slang back in the day). The name first appeared in 1955 on their TR-55 transistor radio, the first to be made in Japan with the company itself adopting the name in January 1958. In the midst of and following an early '80s global recession, Sony developed the compact disc and acquired The CBS Records Group as its music division and, on November 8, 1989, Columbia Pictures Entertainment, founded on December 21, 1987, as a spinoff from The Coca-Cola Company, which Columbia's entertainment businesses were acquired by Tri-Star Pictures, Inc. (which Coca-Cola owned 39.6% of), as its film and television division, which would be renamed as Sony Pictures Entertainment on August 7, 1991. Sony also acquired the Guber-Peters Entertainment Company on November 9, 1989 after hiring Peter Guber and Jon Peters to run CPE. Sony Pictures Entertainment consists of various film and television studios. The company currently includes the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group: Columbia Pictures, Screen Gems Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Animation, Sony Pictures Imageworks, and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (Triumph Films, Destination Films, Stage 6, Films, and Affirm Films) for film production and distribution. The motion picture group also includes its home entertainment division, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment for home media distribution. SPE also owns its television division Sony Pictures Television for television production and distribution and with other television companies under its umbrella such as: Embassy Row, Left Bank Pictures, Starling, Crackle Plus (jointly owned by Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment), and Huaso, among others. Also included are: the Sony Pictures Studios, Sony Pictures Worldwide Fulfillment, Madison Gate Records, and more. Other divisions include the Sony Music Group (which includes Sony Music Entertainment, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Columbia Records, Epic Records, RCA Records, and Arista Records, among others), Sony Interactive Entertainment (which handles the PlayStation-related business activities), Sony Electronics, Sony Mobile Communications, (formerly Sony Ericsson), Sony Financial and a third-party division, The Orchard. The company did not use an on-screen logo for movies and television until 2014; instead, they had a byline on their divisions. However, its logo appeared on commercials by Sony. The current head of Sony, as of early 2018, is Kenichiro Yoshida.

Sony Pictures Entertainment (2014)