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Business overview
12 Months Ended
Sep. 28, 2019
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
Business overview
Business overview

Description of business

Sonos, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries (collectively, "Sonos" or the "Company") designs, develops, manufactures and sells multi-room audio products. The Sonos sound system provides customers with an immersive listening experience created by the design of its speakers and components, a proprietary software platform and the ability to stream content from a variety of sources over the customer’s wireless network or over Bluetooth.

The Company’s products are sold through third-party retail stores, including custom installers of home audio systems. The Company also sells through select e-commerce retailers and its website sonos.com. The Company’s products are distributed in over 50 countries through its wholly owned subsidiaries: Sonos Europe B.V., Beijing Sonos Technology Co., Ltd., Sonos Japan GK and Sonos Australia Pty Ltd., located in the Netherlands, China, Japan and Australia, respectively.

Initial public offering

On August 6, 2018, the Company completed its initial public offering ("IPO") of 15,972,221 shares of its common stock. The shares were sold at the IPO price of $15.00 per share for net proceeds of $90.6 million, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions of $5.3 million and offering costs of approximately $4.6 million. Upon completion of the IPO, all outstanding shares of the Company's redeemable convertible preferred stock automatically converted into 32,482,590 shares of common stock on a one-for-one basis.