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a worldwide restructuring program since the
year ended March 31, 2001 to reduce staffing
and other costs through the consolidation and
rationalization of facilities worldwide.
During the year ended March 31, 2004,
Sony broadened the scope of its worldwide
restructuring of the Music segment, which
resulted in restructuring charges totaling 10.7
billion yen, compared to 22.4 billion yen in the
fiscal year ended March 31, 2003. Restructuring
activities included the shutdown of a CD
manufacturing facility in the U.S. as well as the
restructuring of the music label operations and
further rationalization of overhead functions
through staff reductions. The restructuring
charges consisted of personnel related costs of
5.1 billion yen, lease abandonment costs of
1.3 billion yen and other related costs of 4.2
billion yen including non-cash asset impairments
and disposals. Most of these charges
were recorded in selling, general and administrative
expense. Employees were eliminated
across various employee levels, business functions,
operating units, and geographic regions
during this phase of the worldwide restructuring
program.
PICTURES
Restructuring charges in the Pictures segment
for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 were
4.6 billion yen, compared to 0.5 billion yen in
the previous fiscal year. A variety of initiatives
were undertaken in the segment in an effort
to reduce fixed costs including the reduction of
staffing levels and the disposal of certain longlived
assets. Restructuring charges consisted of
1.0 billion yen of personnel related costs, 1.7
billion yen of non-cash asset impairment and
disposal costs and 1.9 billion yen of other
restructuring costs. Among these charges, 1.5
billion yen was recorded in cost of sales, 1.3
billion yen was recorded in selling, general and
administrative expenses, and 1.7 billion yen
was recorded in loss on sale, disposal or
impairment of assets, net.
The table below summarizes major restructuring activities for which charges of over 5 billion
yen were recorded during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004.
Segment
Electronics
Music
SALES
Sales for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004
increased by 22.8 billion yen, or 0.3 percent,
to 7,496.4 billion yen compared with the previous
fiscal year. A further breakdown of sales
figures is presented under “Operating Performance
by Business Segment” below.
8,000
6,000
4,000
2,000
0
Nature of Restructuring
Reduction of TV display CRT
production capacity in Japan
Early retirement program
Closure of CD
manufacturing facility in
U.S., restructuring of the
music label operations, and
rationalization of overhead
functions
OPERATING PERFORMANCE
Sales and operating revenue and operating income
(Billion ¥) (Billion ¥)
1.8%
2.5%
1.3%
02 03 04
Sales and operating revenue (left)
Operating income (right)
Operating margin
*Year ended March 31
Costs incurred in the
fiscal year ended
March 31, 2004
8.5 billion yen
114.0 billion yen
10.7 billion yen
1,200
1,000
800
600
400
200
0
Additional Information
Remaining liability balance of 2.2 billion yen at March 31, 2004
will be paid or settled in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2005.
Remaining liability balance of 18.3 billion yen at March 31,
2004 will be paid in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2005.
Most of the remaining liability balance of 6.2 billion yen at
March 31, 2004 will be paid or settled during the fiscal year
ending March 31, 2005.
(Yen in billions)
Year ended March 31
Percent
2003 2004 change
Sales and operating revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,473.6 7,496.4 +0.3%
Operating income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185.4 98.9 –46.7
Income before income taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247.6 144.1 –41.8
Net income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115.5 88.5 –23.4
(“Sales” in this analysis of the ratio of selling,
general and administrative expenses to sales
refers only to the “net sales” and “other operating
revenue” portions of consolidated sales
and operating revenue, and excludes Financial
Service revenue. This is because Financial
Service expenses are recorded separately from
cost of sales and selling, general and administrative
expenses. Furthermore, in the analysis
of cost of sales, including research and development
costs, to sales, only “net sales” are
used. This is because cost of sales is an expense
associated only with net sales. All the
ratios below that pertain to business segments
are calculated with intersegment transactions
included.)
COST OF SALES AND SELLING, GENERAL
AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES
Cost of sales for the fiscal year ended March
31, 2004 increased by 78.8 billion yen, or 1.6
percent, to 5,058.2 billion yen compared with
the previous fiscal year, and increased from
72.0 percent to 73.5 percent as a percentage
of sales. Year on year, the cost of sales ratio was
unchanged at 78.8 percent in the Electronics
segment and almost unchanged from 70.2
percent to 70.1 percent in the Game segment.
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