Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Significant decreases in profits at the pictures division and financial services led Japanese electronics and entertainment conglomerate Sony to reveal corporate-wide revenues that increased by a third, but net profits that slipped by 17%, for the first quarter of its financial year.
In the April to June period group revenues weighed in at JPY2.23 trillion (up 33% year on year) or $21.6 billion at current rates of exchange.
Net income of JPY218 billion (or $1.59 billion) in the latest quarter compared with JPY261 billion ($2.02 billion) in the comparable first period of last year.
The pictures division, which spans feature film, TV production and TV networks, reported revenues of $2.33 billion (compared with $2.64 billion in the same quarter last year) and operating profits of $115 million, compared with profits of $394 million.
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