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Annual Report 2001 Sony Corporation Sony Corporation Annual Report 2001 Sony Corporation INVESTOR INFORMATION SONY CORPORATION ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS 7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-chome, Shinagawa-ku, The Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders will be Tokyo 141-0001, Japan held in June in Tokyo. Phone: 03-5448-2111 Facsimile: 03-5448-2244 INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS PricewaterhouseCoopers Sony Corporation ANNUAL REPORT 2001 INVESTOR RELATIONS OFFICES Tokyo, Japan If you have any questions or would like a copy of our YEAR ENDED MARCH 31, 2001 Form 20-F filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange DEPOSITARY, TRANSFER AGENT, AND REGISTRAR Commission or our Annual Report to shareholders, FOR AMERICAN DEPOSITARY RECEIPTS please direct your request to: Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York Shareholder Relations Japan P.O. Box 842006, Boston, MA 02284-2006, U.S.A. SONY CORPORATION Phone: 800-360-4522 Investor Relations Annual Report 200 7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-chome, Shinagawa-ku, CO-TRANSFER AND CO-REGISTRAR AGENT Tokyo 141-0001 CIBC Mellon Trust Company Phone: 03-5448-2180 2001 University Street, 16th Floor, Facsimile: 03-5448-2183 Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2A6, Canada Phone: 514-285-3600 U.S.A. SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA TRANSFER AGENT OF COMMON SHARES Investor Relations HANDLING OFFICE 1 550 Madison Avenue, 9th Floor, The Toyo Trust and Banking Company, Limited New York, NY 10022-3211 Corporate Agency Department Phone: 212-833-6849 10-11, Higashisuna 7-chome, Koto-ku, Facsimile: 212-833-6938 Tokyo 137-8081, Japan Phone: 03-5683-5111 U.K. SONY GLOBAL TREASURY SERVICES PLC. OVERSEAS STOCK EXCHANGE LISTINGS Investor Relations New York, Pacific, Chicago, Toronto, London, Paris, St. Helens, 1 Undershaft, London EC3A 8NP Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Brussels, Vienna, and Swiss Phone: 020-7426-8606 stock exchanges Facsimile: 020-7426-8677 JAPANESE STOCK EXCHANGE LISTINGS SONY ON THE INTERNET Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, and Sapporo Sony’s Investor Relations Home Pages on the World stock exchanges Wide Web offer a wealth of corporate information, in- cluding the latest annual report and financial results. NUMBER OF SHAREHOLDERS http://www.sony.co.jp/en/SonyInfo/IR (As of March 31, 2001) 617,888 ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT If you would like a copy of the above report, please direct your request to: Sony Corporation Corporate Environmental Affairs Phone: 03-5448-3533 Facsimile: 03-5448-7838 This report is also available on the World Wide Web. Printed on 100% recycled magazine paper (pages 55–134), and Sony’s environmental showroom, “Sony Eco Plaza,” can 100% recycled paper (cover pages and pages 1-54). Printed using VOC (volatile organic compound)-free vegetable also be visited at the same URL. oil based ink. http://www.world.sony.com/eco Printed in Japan 137 Sony Corporation Annual Report 2001 Sony Corporation Annual Report 2001 FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS NEW DIRECTORS NEW STATUTORY AUDITOR Sony Corporation and Consolidated Subsidiaries Assuming shareholders’ approval, the appointments will become official at the meeting of the Board of Directors to be Assuming shareholders’ approval, Masasuke Ohmori will be Year ended March 31 elected an auditor at the Ordinary General Meeting of Yen in millions Dollars in held immediately after the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders to be held on June 21, 2001. except per share amounts and millions except Shareholders to be held on June 21, 2001. number of employees Percent change per share amounts 2000 2001 2001/2000 2001 STATUTORY AUDITORS FOR THE YEAR Auditors Akihisa Ohnishi and Takafumi Abe were elected at the Sales and operating revenue. ¥6,686,661 ¥7,314,824 +9.4% $58,518 June 29, 2000, and an auditor Takashi Hayashi was elected at Operating income . 223,204 225,346 +1.0 1,803 the June 29, 1999 Ordinary General Meetings of Shareholders, Income before income taxes . 264,310 265,868 +0.6 2,127 respectively. Income before cumulative effect of accounting changes . 121,835 121,227 -0.5 970 Net income . 121,835 16,754 -86.2 134 Per share data: Income before cumulative effect of accounting changes –Basic . ¥6,6144.58 ¥7,3132.64 -8.3% $581.06 –Diluted. 131.70 124.36 -5.6 0.99 Net income . –Basic . 144.58 18.33 -87.3 0.15 –Diluted. 131.70 19.28 -85.4 0.15 Cash dividends . 25.00 25.00 0.20 AT YEAR-END Stockholders’ equity . ¥2,182,906 ¥2,315,453 +6.1% $18,524 Total assets . 6,807,197 7,827,966 +15.0 62,624 Number of employees . 189,700 181,800 Notes: 1. U.S. dollar amounts have been translated from yen, for convenience only, at the rate of ¥125=U.S.$1, the approximate Tokyo foreign exchange market rate as of March 30, 2001. 2. All per share data have been adjusted to reflect the two-for-one stock split that has been completed on May 19, 2000. 3. Cash dividends per share for the year ended March 31, 2001 include a dividend which is subject to approval of the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders to be held on June 21, 2001. 4. In June 2000, the Accounting Standards Executive Committee of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants issued Statement of Position (“SOP”) 00-2, “Accounting by Producers or Distributors of Films.” The provision of SOP 00-2 is effective for fiscal years starting on or after December 16, 2000 with early application encouraged. Sony adopted SOP 00-2 in the first quarter ended June 30, 2000, effective as of April 1, 2000. As a result, Sony’s operating income, income before income taxes, and net income for the year ended March 31, 2001 each decreased by approximately ¥28.5 billion ($228 million). Additionally, Sony’s net income for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2001 decreased by ¥101.7 billion ($813 million), reflecting a one-time non-cash cumulative effect adjustment in the income statement directly above the caption of “net income” for a change in accounting principle. 5. On January 5, 2000, the acquisition transactions by way of exchanges of stock, whereby Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., Sony Chemicals Corporation, and Sony Precision Technology Inc. became wholly-owned subsidiaries of Sony Corporation, were completed. Intangible assets and From left to right: From left to right: From left to right: From left to right: goodwill realized from these transactions are being amortized over their useful lives of up to a maximum of 20 years. Such amortization is recorded in selling, general and administrative expenses. As a result, during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2001, operating income and income before Minoru Morio Norio Ohga Peter G. Peterson Masasuke Ohmori income taxes each decreased by approximately ¥16.7 billion ($134 million), and net income decreased by approximately ¥13.3 billion ($106 Vice Chairman, Director Chairman of the Board, Director Director (Chairman of The Blackstone Group) Statutory Auditor (Former Director-General of million), and during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2000, operating income and income before income taxes each decreased by approximately Cabinet Legislation Bureau, current Visiting ¥4.2 billion, and net income decreased by approximately ¥3.3 billion. Teruo Masaki Nobuyuki Idei Kenichi Suematsu Professor at Waseda University School of Law) 6. In December 1999, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued Staff Accounting Bulletin (“SAB”) No. 101, “Revenue Recognition in Financial Corporate Senior Executive Vice President, Director Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Representative Director Director (Advisor of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation) Statements.” Sony adopted SAB No. 101 in the fourth quarter ended March 31, 2001, effective as of April 1, 2000. As a result, a one-time non-cash cumulative effect adjustment of ¥2.8 billion ($23 million) was recorded in the income statement directly above the caption of “net income” for a Akihisa Ohnishi change in accounting principle. The accounting change did not have a material effect on Sony’s consolidated financial results. Howard Stringer Kunitake Ando Iwao Nakatani Standing Statutory Auditor 7. Effective with the year ended March 31, 2001, net loss on sale, disposal or impairment of long-lived assets, which was previously included in other Director (Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sony President and Chief Operating Officer, Representative Director Director (Director of Research, Sanwa Research Institute and income/expense and shown below operating income, is included in selling, general and administrative expense and shown above operating income. Corporation of America) Consulting Corporation) Takashi Hayashi As a result, operating income for the year ended March 31, 2000 has been restated to conform to the presentation for the fiscal year ended March Teruhisa Tokunaka Standing Statutory Auditor 31, 2001. Ken Kutaragi Executive Deputy President and Chief Financial Officer, Göran Lindahl Director (President and Chief Executive Officer of Sony Representative Director Director (Former President and Chief Executive Officer of ABB Takafumi Abe Computer Entertainment Inc.) Limited) Standing Statutory Auditor Cautionary Statement with Respect to Forward–Looking Statements Statements made in this annual report with respect to Sony’s current plans, estimates, strategies and beliefs and other statements that are not historical facts are forward–looking statements about the future performance of Sony. These statements are based on management’s assumptions and beliefs in light of the information currently available to it and therefore you should not place undue reliance on them. Sony cautions you that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in the forward–looking
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