Sony slashes 5% of marketing & distribution posts in efficiency drive

Sony Pictures Entertainment has placed its marketing and distribution employees on notice after announcing that it will slash its total workforce in these areas by 5% as part of an efficiency drive.
An internal memo cited by Bloomberg News justifies the losses in terms of a migration to a more global and digitally focussed business, necessitating the merger of international and domestic teams.
In tandem with this reorganisation Paul Noble has been named co-president of international marketing, a