Sony Corporation of America: version 1
Saved 2026-09-18 15:43 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by review: Full review of company/sony-dadc, which had only a name, a legal name, a country, three aliases and an About. Identity now carries a summary (one sentence: US optical-disc company in Terre Haute, firs. This is the current version.
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# Sony Corporation of America <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Sony Corporation of America
summary: Sony Group Corporation's American arm, founded in 1960 and seated at 25 Madison Avenue in New York, holding Sony's US electronics, music, film and games companies.
legal_name: Sony Corporation of America
registered_address: 25 Madison Avenue, 26th Floor, New York, NY 10010-8601, United States
wikidata: Q1134268
country: US
founded: 1960-02-08
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| -------- | ------------------------------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | -------- | --------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/sony-group-corporation | | | | | verified | ^sony-20f | Sony Group Corporation's Form 20-F consolidates Sony Corporation of America and names it its agent in the U.S. |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ----- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| SCA | search | | | |
| SONAM | search | | | |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| --------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------- | --------------------------------------- | ----------- | ---------- | -------------------- | -------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| wiki-sca | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corporation_of_America | Wikipedia: Sony Corporation of America | 2026-09-18 | Wikipedia | publication | | | article and infobox | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | |
| sony-20f | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/313838/000119312526274893/d28719d20f.htm | Sony Group Corporation: Form 20-F for the year ended 31 March 2026 | 2026-09-18 | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | registry | 2026-06-18 | 0001193125-26-274893 | Item 4: agent in the U.S., segment footnotes | CC0 | | |
| wiki-dadc | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Digital_Audio_Disc_Corporation | Wikipedia: Sony Digital Audio Disc Corporation | 2026-09-18 | Wikipedia | publication | | | article and infobox | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | |
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## About <!--about-->
Sony Corporation of America (SCA, also SONAM) is the American arm of Sony Group Corporation and manages Sony's business in the United States; its principal US businesses are Sony Corporation, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony Music Group and Sony Pictures Entertainment. It was founded on 8 February 1960 and is headquartered in New York City.[^wiki-sca] Sony Group Corporation's Form 20-F gives its address as 25 Madison Avenue, 26th Floor, New York, NY 10010-8601, names it the group's agent in the United States, and consolidates its figures with those of its own subsidiaries.[^sony-20f] Among those subsidiaries is Sony DADC, the Terre Haute disc manufacturer, for which Wikipedia and Wikidata name Sony Corporation of America as the parent.[^wiki-dadc] This page is a stub created so that ownership can be stated as a relation; its own subsidiary list, register numbers and website are not yet sourced here.
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