The mother company is Matsushita Electronics.
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John Hermanson
Camtech Photo Services, Inc.
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Andrew Fildes wrote:
> Here all Panasonic products in the early '80's were branded National.
> I used Nation VCR's in schools for many years and they were extremely
> reliable compared to any other brand. The Panasonic brand name slowly
> superceded for electronic products although not for other appliances
> - I assume that they were trying to achieve a product
> differentiation. However National appliances have a very low profile
> here.
> I assume that Panny are one of those trading houses that makes
> nothing themselves but simply buys in and rebrands from specialist
> suppliers - a normal method of business in Japan. For instance,
> Mitsubishi had their name on everything from a VCR to an aircraft at
> various times. I use and recommend Hitachi power tools but have seen
> a Hitachi VCR. It makes for a certain flexibility in production and
> sometimnes variations in quality over tiome and across lines.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 31/08/2007, at 9:28 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> Strange. The reason I typically seek out Panasonic products is that
>> none have ever failed going back (I think) to the early 70's.
>
>
>
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