世界名牌博览：日本松下公司

松下(Panasonic)，是日本的一个跨国性公司，在全世界设有230多家公司，员工总数超过290,493人。其中在中国有54，000多人。2001年全年的销售总额为610多亿美元，为世界制造业500强的第26名。

Panasonic的中文为“松下”(早期叫National，1986年开始逐步更改为Panasonic，2008年10月1日起全部统一为Panasonic)由日本松下电器产业株式会社自1918年松下幸之助创业，发展品牌产品涉及家电、数码视听电子、办公产品、航空等诸多领域而享誉全球;该企业品牌跃入《世界品牌500强》排行榜。松下于2012年10月31日宣布2012财年(2012年4月～2013年3月)的合并最终损益(按照美国会计标准)预期从盈利500亿日元下调为亏损7650亿日元。

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”.