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Nikkei (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Matsushita Electric To Consolidate Kitchen Unit ProductionOSAKA (Nikkei)--Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (6752) will shutter two kitchen unit factories in Japan in an effort to achieve leaner production as the population decline saps demand, the firm said Thursday.
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BetaNews (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
... two companies aim for $8 billion in sales and a $376 operating profit, which is minute compared to Matsushita's $87 billion in sales and $5 billion operating profit.Matsushita has a 52% stake in JVC, and has long wondered what it should do with the brand. Although Matsushita saw significant increases in its stock value in 2005 and 2006, its further growth was limited by JVC...
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TV Snob (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Pioneer may make the best plasma TV's around, but with inefficiencies in the companies manufacturing process, they've had to outsource the KURO panels to Matsushita for production. Now a Nikkei newspaper is reporting that when Pioneer announcing its 2007 fiscal...
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Crave RSS (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Victor and Kenwood said Monday that they plan to become one company by October 1 this year. The two Japanese audio equipment makers will combine to form JVC Kenwood Holdings, which will be based in Yokohama, near Tokyo. Victor, a subsidiary of electronics giant Matsushita, is best known for its ...
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Engadget HD (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Filed under: Industry , Displays , LG , Panasonic , Plasma Believe it or not, it was around this day two full years ago that LG managed to climb atop Matsushita , Hitachi and the rest of the gang to claim the label of top plasma maker in the world . Shortly thereafter, Matsushita roared to number one and has remained there ever since -- until now. The aforesaid firm slipped from #1 to...
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TV Snob (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Still worried about the existence of Pioneer's KURO line after the company announced they were quitting the plasma biz? Remember they were only outsourcing panel production to Matsushita, and here's proof the KURO is alive and well. Yesterday Pioneer announced...
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Product Reviews Net (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Panasonic Corporation of North America, the principal U.S. subsidiary of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., announces the introduction of the anticipated DMP-BD50, Panasonic's third generation Blu-ray disc player - the ultimate playback source for high definition 1080p content. Blu-ray media offers a wide range of functions that foster the transition to HD - including 1080p [...]
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Serkan at Tokyotronic reports on news that a common Web TV standard will be rolled out in Japan as early as next year. Companies involved in the move, such as Sony and Matsushita on the hardware side and acTVila on the Internet service provider side, are attempting to come to an agreement by next month.
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Market Wire - Computers and Software (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
SECAUCUS, NJ (MARKET WIRE) Panasonic Corporation of North America, the principal U.S. subsidiary of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (NYSE: MC), announces the introduction of the anticipated DMP-BD50, Panasonic's third generation Blu-ray disc player -- the ultimate playback source for high definition 1080p content. Blu-ray media offers a wide range of functions that foster the transition...
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Nikkei (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Matsushita To Shrink Post-Disaster Data System Downtime By 90%TOKYO (Nikkei)--Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (6752) will build backup data centers at major operational bases around the world to slash by 90 % the time needed to bring its internal computer systems back online after a major disaster.
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Microweb News (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
Details of the chip were made by Matsushita (known of the consumers brand Panasonic) public during the International Solid-State Circuits Conference 20001 in San Diego. The chip can decode decode on the same moment two MPEG-4 videostreams encoderen, four MPEG-4 videostreams f a single stream encoderen [...]
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
TOKYO, April 30 (Reuters) - Shares in Matsushita posted their biggest gain in nearly 9 years on Wednesday as its flat TV-led earnings growth mitigated worries a firmer yen and higher raw materials prices could take a toll on the Panasonic maker's performance.
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Nikkei (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
Plasma, LCD Panel Ops Challenge MatsushitaTOKYO (Nikkei)--Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (6752) in March ended its final fiscal year before changing its name to Panasonic with its highest net profit in 22 years, earning 281.8 billion yen, up 29.8% from the year before. Though it anticipates another banner year this term, problems remain with its flat-panel TV business, which may have...
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Sify (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
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Business Week (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
The company is relying on developing markets, and especially BRIC, to meet its ambitious targets for sales of plasma and LCD TVs
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rupali | 12/13/2007
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