Panasonic

Panasonic was founded in 1918, and is now one of Japan’s largest electronics group and in 2012 was its biggest corporate employer. It is one of the world’s top five television makers and one of the world’s top 20 semiconductor manufacturers.

Panasonic appoints first woman to board

2 Mar 2013

Panasonic named the first female board member in its 95-year history while trimming the executive ranks as the electronics company tries to lower costs and speed up decision-making after a record...

Renesas to sell US$1.8b in shares to Japan fund, companies

10 Dec 2012

Renesas Electronics, the ailing Japanese chipmaker, will sell at least 150 billion yen (US$1.8 billion) of new shares to a government-backed fund and customers as part of a bailout plan.

Japanese science students snub Sony jobs in favour of dairies

10 Dec 2012

Japan’s science students are eschewing traditional high-powered employers such as Sony and Panasonic to help make ice cream and yogurt.

They are applying to dairies. That says quite a bit...

Junk rating for bleeding Sony and Panasonic

23 Nov 2012

Sony and Panasonic, the Japanese electronics makers reeling from record losses, have had their long-term credit ratings downgraded to junk by Fitch Ratings, citing a weak recovery in the...

Fitch cuts ratings on Panasonic, Sony to junk

22 Nov 2012

Japan’s embattled electronics sector suffered another blow on Thursday as ratings agency Fitch downgraded industry titans Sony and Panasonic to junk status.

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Japan’s electronics sector in race against time

Japan’s battered electronics giants are in a race against time, analysts say, as losses that threaten their very survival mount and as overseas rivals look like they are running away with the show...

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Panasonic to lose US$9.6b this year

Panasonic said Wednesday it would book a mammoth US$9.6 billion net loss in the fiscal year to March as the Japanese consumer electronics giant undergoes a major overhaul of its troubled business...

Chinese workers destroy Panasonic factory from within

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Sea change on way for those wasting corporate boxes

Sunday's HK$200 million year-on-year increase in turnover for the Panasonic Cup meeting was yet another in a series of towering rises this season, as the juggernaut momentum of recent years rolls...

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FP8

Panasonic's Lumix series of digital cameras are known for a couple of things - its Leica lens and the fact that it was one of the first to introduce wide-angle lens in compact models.