One of the things that struck me during my visits to the Sony Style stores in Palm Beach Gardens and Boca Raton (besides the Florida heat and humidity outside the malls) was the focus on personal service. This was particularly true at the Boca store in Town Center, a beautiful high-end mall, where I witnessed [...]
Read MoreTampa & Orlando Florida Tuesday June 3rd, 2008 View Larger Map It has been quiet a day Departed Atlanta early this morning before arriving at our Sony Style store in Orlando, then drove to our store in Tampa, and finally almost missed our flight across the state to West Palm Beach. Part of the reason [...]
Read MoreAtlanta, Georgia Monday June 2, 2008 The Sony Style store at Lenox Square in the Buckhead section of Atlanta was a great place to start my 40-day tour of our 40-plus stores around the country. Even on a Monday morning there was a reasonably good turnout of consumers that increased as the lunch hour got [...]
Read MoreI’m off. Flying to Atlanta today to visit the first of more than 40 Sony Style stores around the country. First stop is on Monday at our store in the fabulous Lenox Square in the hip Buckhead section of the city. The plan is to stop by each and every one of Sony’s [...]
Read MoreFor the past couple of days I was in and out at The Wall Street Journal’s (really Walt Mossberg’s and Kara Swisher’s) sixth annual "D: All Things Digital" Conference in nearby Carlsbad, Calif. Although I was fully registered for the event, I had to attend to Sir Howard Stringer, our global chairman and CEO, who [...]
Read MoreLast week at the Sony management conference in Tokyo, I was impressed with the comments of Michael Lynton, the chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment, regarding our sister company’s environmental initiatives. I am pleased that Michael agreed to share more in this guest post below. Like most people, I’ve always been impressed by the [...]
Read MoreWith all the traveling I’ve been doing lately and what I know is to come in the months ahead, I can’t seem to get an old hit song popularized decades ago by Ricky Nelson out of my head. This week it was Tokyo; last week Hawaii; the week before that ’twas Palm Desert, Calif. Coming [...]
Read MoreIt’s here! Sony’s Rolly Entertainment Player — with its artificial intelligence, dance movies, flashing lights, color displays and, of course, great sound — has finally made its U.S. debut. Check out the guest post below by Mitch Li, senior product marketing manager for the Rolly. And then visit Sony.com/Rolly or one of our Sony Style [...]
Read MoreI’ve just returned from a couple of days in Honolulu where Governor Linda Lingle and Lieutenant Governor Duke Aiona declared May 14, 2008 as "Sony Hawai’i Day" in recognition of the company’s 40 anniversary of operations in the Aloha State. Now, how cool is that? The proclamation is the first of its kind from [...]
Read MoreI’m here in the Aloha State this week for the 40th anniversary celebration of Sony’s operations in Hawaii. As part of the festivities, we announced the establishment of the first two electronics recycling centers in Hawaii in connection with the national Sony Take Back Recycling Program. The first centers will be located on the big [...]
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