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engages in the production and sale of electronic and electric products for a range of consumer, business, and industrial needs.
It operates in five categories: AVC Networks, Home Appliances, Components and Devices, JVC, and Other.
AVC Networks consists of Video and audio, and Information and communications equipment.
Video and audio equipment includes TVs, VCRs, camcorders, digital still cameras, DVD players and recorders, and personal and home audio equipment.
Information equipment consists of personal computers (PCs); PC displays; CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM, and other optical disk drives; HDDs; copying machines; and printers.
Communications equipment includes products, such as facsimile equipment, cordless telephones, cellular phones, other mobile communications equipment, and digital private branch exchanges.
Home Appliances includes refrigerators, room air conditioners, washing machines, clothes dryers, vacuum cleaners, electric irons, microwave ovens, cooking appliances, dishwasher/dryers, and household equipment.
Major products in the Components and Devices category are semiconductors, general components, display devices, batteries, and electric motors.
JVC includes consumer electronic equipment, professional electronic equipment and systems, components, and prerecorded audio and video software and recordable media.
The company’s other category includes factory automation equipment, industrial robots, welding machines, power distribution equipment, and other industrial equipment.
Matsushita Electric Industrial was founded in 1918 by Konosuke Matsushita.
The company is headquartered in Osaka, Japan.
