Sony to sell the original Tokyo headquarters building to raise 150 million dollars

Tencent technology in the morning of February 28 compiled in order to cope with business restructuring, Sony is selling some Non-core assets and real estate to raise funds. According to the Japanese media February 28 reported that the transfer of the people included as the land of the Tokyo Palace Hill area of the building. It is reported that Sony this transfer of the property in Tokyo, including the famous NS mansion. The transfer of income will reach 15 billion yen, about 147 million U.S. dollars. Sony was born in 1946, the first name was the Tokyo Communications Industry Co., Ltd., originally located in the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo. 1947, Sony moved to move to the palace of the Gotenyama area, which became the birthplace of Sony, the place to grow. By about 2000, Sony employs 7,000 people and works at the headquarters of the Royal Hill. With the rise of Samsung Electronics, Sony's operating performance is getting worse, in 2007, in order to make up for revenue, Sony transferred the Royal Hill Headquarters Park north of some properties. It was reported that in 1990, Sony, which produced carburetors and other equipment, worked with another company called Nikki to build the NS building. The building became the headquarters of Sony. Until 2007, Sony headquarters moved to the site where it was today. Last year, Sony and Nikki had a real estate exchange, and Sony transferred a partial stake in another building to get full ownership of the NS mansion. But with Sony's ailing state, the NS mansion is also fading. Once the NS mansion is transferred, Sony's main local property in Tokyo will only be left at Sony Archives building. Sony plans to relocate 1000 employees in the NS building to the current headquarters campus. Sony signed an agreement to lease the building at the beginning of last year, when it would transfer its most expensive office building in Tokyo at a price of $1.2 billion. In addition, Sony at the beginning of last year at the price of 1.1 billion U.S. dollars, the transfer of the United States Headquarters building. In the face of competition from South Korea and China's consumer electronics rivals, Sony has been increasingly dismal since fiscal year 2011. Sony has announced the transfer of Vaio PC business, and will focus on smartphones, gaming consoles, image sensors and other businesses in the future. Sony is expected to lose 1.1 billion dollars this fiscal year. This week, Sony also announced that it would close two-thirds of its physical stores in the United States this year, involving more than 1000 employees, accounting for One-third of the total number of Sony US employees.