ENTREPRENEURIAL OPERATIONS
SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Question
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Sony
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Panasonic
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Kenwood
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Toshiba
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Detailed explanation-1: -On 7 May 1946, Ibuka was joined by Akio Morita to establish a company called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (, Tōkyō Tsūshin Kōgyō) (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation). The company built Japan’s first tape recorder, called the Type-G. In 1958, the company changed its name to “Sony".
Detailed explanation-2: -Masaru Ibuka (right). The company name of Sony was created by combining two words of “sonus” and “sonny”. The word “sonus” in Latin represents words like sound and sonic. The other word “sonny” means little son.
Detailed explanation-3: -The company was founded as Tokyo Tsoshiu Kogyo KK (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation) in 1946, and changed its name to Sony in 1958. Sony was chosen as it could be pronounced easily in many languages.