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Shareholders' Meeting

The 90th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders

June 21, 2007

Date:   June 21, 2007 [Thu]  

Start: 10:00 a.m. (on schedule)
Finish: 12:31 p.m.
Place: Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa, Tokyo
The number of shareholders in attendance: 7,163

Sony Corporation (the "Corporation") hereby notifies you of the resolutions adopted or rejected, and matters reported at the 90th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders (the "Meeting"), as follows.

Matters reported:
  • The reports on the business report, non-consolidated financial statements, consolidated financial statements and Audit Reports on the consolidated financial statements by the Independent Auditors (certified public accountants) and the Audit Committee for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2007 (from April 1, 2006 to March 31, 2007) were made pursuant to the Company Law of Japan.


Matters acted upon:

< CORPORATION'S PROPOSALS (PROPOSALS 1 to 3) >


1. To elect 14 Directors.
  • At the Meeting, as proposed, 14 Directors were elected. The names of the Directors are as follows.

    Sir Howard Stringer
    Ryoji Chubachi
    Katsumi Ihara
    *Akishige Okada
    *Hirobumi Kawano
    *Yotaro Kobayashi
    *Sakie T. Fukushima
    *Yoshihiko Miyauchi
    *Yoshiaki Yamauchi
    *Sir Peter Bonfield
    *Fueo Sumita
    *Fujio Cho
    *Ned Lautenbach
    *Ryuji Yasuda

    *They are outside Directors prescribed by Article 2, Item 15 of the Company Law of Japan.


2. To elect the Independent Auditor.
  • At the Meeting, as proposed, PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata was elected.


3. To issue Stock Acquisition Rights for the purpose of granting stock options.
  • At the Meeting, as proposed, it was approved that the Corporation will issue stock acquisition rights to directors, corporate executive officers and employees of the Corporation and of its subsidiaries, for the purpose of granting stock options, pursuant to the provisions of Articles 236, 238 and 239 of the Company Law of Japan, and that the Corporation will delegate the determination of the terms of such stock acquisition rights to the Board of Directors of the Corporation.


< SHAREHOLDERS' PROPOSAL (PROPOSAL 4) >


4. To amend the Articles of Incorporation with respect to disclosure to shareholders regarding remuneration paid to each Director.
  • At the Meeting, this shareholders' proposal was rejected.


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