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Sony Television. Originally called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (Tokyo Telecommunications
Engineering Company), Sony's roots go back over half a century.
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Sony Television
Originally called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (Tokyo Telecommunications
Engineering Company), Sony's roots go back over half a century to
1946 when it was founded by Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita. In the
crippled post-war Japanese economy Ibuka and Morita made their
living repairing radios and manufacturing small numbers of
voltmeters whilst looking to develop a future in designing and
manufacturing new electronics.
Ibuka and Morita were global thinkers. They realised
the need for a global brand which crossed cultural and language
borders in order to expand the business in the US and later Europe.
TTK was already being used by another company so a new name, Sony,
was conceived.
The name Sony derives from the Latin word sonus
meaning sound and the English word sonny-boy - a term used by the
Americans in the 1950's to denote a bright youngster. Although the
name of the company was not officially changed to Sony Corporation
until 1958, the first Sony branded product was the TR-55 transistor
radio which went on sale in 1955.
Sony's UK history
began in 1968 when Sony United Kingdom was founded in London. Six
years later Sony became the first major Japanese company to open a
factory in the UK.
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