Farewell Matsushita, Hello Panasonic
As announced back in January, today marks the end of Matsushita. The giant Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd today changed its name to Panasonic Corporation, the retail brand for which they are best known. Established in 1918 as the Matsushita Electric Housewares Manufacturing Works, renamed Matsushita Electric Manufacturing Works in 1929, and then Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd in 1935, they used the Matsushita, National, and Panasonic brands for years, but began to focus solely on the Panasonic brand in 2003.
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