Sony's board chairman and ex-CEO Stringer to retire: FT

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp's board chairman Howard Stringer, who headed the company as chief executive for six years until last April, will retire from Japan's struggling consumer electronics giant in June, the Financial Times reported. The departure of Stringer, who last year handed the top post to Kazuo Hirai, would officially mark an end to a period in which Sony, under Stringer, struggled to revive its creative edge and ceded ground to rivals such as Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics. ...

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