Responding to strong growth in its direct-to-consumer sales operations, Sony has realigned management responsibilities, shifting the online consumer electronics and Sony-branded retail stores to the consumer electronics group, Sony Electronics' COO Dick Komiyama announced at a roundtable conference with the press, here.

The e-commerce and retail store businesses, which were previously managed under Sony's e-Solutions Company, have now been moved into the consumer electronics sales operation headed by Stan Glasgow, Sony's U.S. consumer sales president.