Panasonic

Business focus

Electronics, Semiconductors & Appliances

Description

Panasonic Holdings, founded in Osaka in 1918 by Konosuke Matsushita as Matsushita Electric and renamed Panasonic in 2008, is a diversified Japanese electronics group spanning home appliances, air conditioning and HVAC, avionics, and automotive and industrial batteries, including a long-running EV-battery partnership with Tesla. Listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, it employs around 230,000 people and reports annual revenue of roughly 8 trillion yen.