世界名牌博覽：日本松下公司

松下(Panasonic)，是日本的一個跨國性公司，在全世界設(shè)有230多家公司，員工總數(shù)超過290,493人。其中在中國有54，000多人。2001年全年的銷售總額為610多億美元，為世界制造業(yè)500強的第26名。

Panasonic的中文為“松下”(早期叫National，1986年開始逐步更改為Panasonic，2008年10月1日起全部統(tǒng)一為Panasonic)由日本松下電器產(chǎn)業(yè)株式會社自1918年松下幸之助創(chuàng)業(yè)，發(fā)展品牌產(chǎn)品涉及家電、數(shù)碼視聽電子、辦公產(chǎn)品、航空等諸多領(lǐng)域而享譽全球;該企業(yè)品牌躍入《世界品牌500強》排行榜。松下于2012年10月31日宣布2012財年(2012年4月～2013年3月)的合并最終損益(按照美國會計標準)預(yù)期從盈利500億日元下調(diào)為虧損7650億日元。

Panasonic is a Japanese multinational corporation that produces electronics. It is Japan’s largest maker of electrical goods and the 89th biggest company in the world. The company was founded in 1918 by Konosuke Matsushita. It was called Matsushita Denki and started off making bicycle lamps. It changed its name to Panasonic in 2003. ‘Panasonic’ was the name of the audio speakers it produced in 1955. After WWII, the company started making a wide variety of household electronics and bicycles. It became a world leader in the former but was forced to give up making bicycles due to poor levels of profitability. Panasonic bought its rival Sanyo (which was started my Matsushita’s brother-in-law) in 2008. The merged corporation has annual revenues of over $110 billion. The company uses the slogan “Panasonic ideas for life”.