Farewell Matsushita ...

From today, the company Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. fully moves under its brand name Panasonic Corporation, and changes its tikerny symbol on the New York Stock Exchange on the PC with the MC. Renaming were exposed to all brands of the company whose names were the names Matsushita or National. Along with the change of name, the company is working to complete the transition to the National Panasonic brand in Japan, which should be completed by March 2010.

Since its inception in 1918, the company was known as Matsushita Electric Housewares Manufacturing Works, which was changed to Matsushita Electric Manufacturing Works in 1929. The name of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. the company was in 1935, when it became a joint stock corporation. Although the company used the Panasonic and National brands for a long time, in 2003 it was decided that the brand name "Panasonic" will become a global brand to enhance competitiveness in the global marketplace along with their slogan - "Panasonic ideas for life".