Year | Detail |
1918 |
Konosuke Matsushita founded Matsushita Denkikigu Seisakusho at Ohiraki-cho, Fukushima-ku, Osaka, and started to manufacture wiring instruments. |
1923 |
Bullet-shaped bicycle lamp developed. |
1935 |
Established Matsushita Electric Trading Co., Ltd. And Incorporated as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. on December 15, 1935 |
1949 |
Listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and Osaka Securities Exchange. |
1952 |
Established Matsushita Electronics Corporation through a technology alliance with Philips in the Netherlands and transferred four lamp manufacturing factories to this establishment. |
1953 |
It has established the Central Research Laboratory. |
1955 |
The Company has established Kyushu Matsushita Electric Co., Ltd. (subsequently renamed Panasonic Communications Co., Ltd.). |
1958 |
Established Matsushita Communication Industrial Co., Ltd. (subsequently renamed Panasonic Mobile Communications Co., Ltd.) and transferred the communication equipment manufacturing section to this establishment. |
1959 |
It has established established Matsushita Electric Corporation of America. |
1962 |
Formed a capital alliance with Toho Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (subsequently renamed Matsushita Graphic Communication Systems, Inc.). |
1979 |
Established Matsushita Battery Industrial Co. Ltd. |
1985 |
Established Semiconductor Fundamental Research Laboratory. |
1990 |
Acquired MCA INC. (MCA), a leading entertainment company in the U.S. |
1993 |
Dissolved partnership with Philips regarding Matsushita Electronics Corporation and purchased all shares of Matsushita Electronics Corporation, which Philips held. |
1995 |
Absorbed Matsushita Household Equipment Co. Ltd. |
2002 |
Established a joint venture with liquid crystal display panel manufacturing company, Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co. Ltd., with Toshiba Corporation. |
2003 |
Started a joint venture with cathode ray tubes manufacturing company, Matsushita Toshiba Picture Display Co., Ltd. (subsequently renamed MT Picture Display Co., Ltd., liquidated in May 2019) with Toshiba Corporation. |
2008 |
The Company changed its name from Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. to Panasonic Corporation. |
2009 |
Acquired majority of the voting rights in SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (SANYO) and made SANYO and its subsidiaries into consolidated subsidiaries of the Company. |
2011 |
Made PEW and SANYO into wholly-owned subsidiaries through share exchanges. |
2013 |
Panasonic System Solutions Japan Co., Ltd. absorbed companies, including Panasonic System Networks Co., Ltd., and was at the same time renamed Panasonic System Networks Co., Ltd. (Subsequently, following certain reorganizations, in April 2022, merged into Panasonic Connect Co., Ltd.) |
2014 |
Transferred semiconductor business to Panasonic Semiconductor Solutions Co., Ltd. in the Company split. (Subsequently, in September 2020, transferred all the shares and other related assets of the semiconductor business.) |
2020 |
Established Prime Planet Energy & Solutions, Inc., a joint venture automotive prismatic battery business, with Toyota Motor Corporation. |
2021 |
Acquired additional shares of Blue Yonder Holding, Inc. (20% of its shares were acquired in July 2020) and made Blue Yonder Holding, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. |
2022 |
Became a holding company as a result of transferring each business of the Company to nine companies, including the operating companies, through an absorption-type company split, and changed its name from Panasonic Corporation to Panasonic Holdings Corporation. |