Sony CEO Howard Stringer yesterday blamed the latest awful profit outlook for JapanÆs favourite electronics company on not adapting fast enough to new conditions, as well as the ôworst recession in his lifetimeö. At a press conference, Stringer announced that Sony was revising its fiscal 2008 ending March 2009 consolidated net income forecast to a Ñ150 billion $1.6 billion loss from an earlier estimate of a Ñ150 billion profit, off expected revenues of Ñ7.7 trillion $86 billion.
ôThere is too much old Sony at Sony,ö said Stringer in his introductory comments, despite the fact that he took the helm almost four years ago û specifically to make a ônew Sonyö.
Stringer finds it easy...
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