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Sanyo was founded when Toshio Iue, the brother-in-law of Konosuke Matsushita and also a former Matsushita employee, was lent an unused Matsushita plant in 1947 and used it to make bicycle generator lamps. Sanyo was incorporated in 1949; it made Japan's first plastic radio in 1952 and Japan's first pulsator-type washing machine in 1954. [4]
Automatic Electrical Appliances was born in 1948 in a 40-square-meter (430 sq ft) store at Avenida Rizal in Manila, which is considered as the city's main shopping street in the post-war. It sold light bulbs , wires , sockets , and other electrical supplies.
Beyond Midea's eponymous brand name, the company also employs a series of other brands. The Little Swan brand was adopted when Midea acquired the Little Swan company in 2008. Little Swan products are mostly laundry and refrigeration appliances. Hualing is a brand used by Midea for air conditioners and refrigerators, and was also adopted in 2008.
Fisher & Paykel Appliances Holdings Limited (/ ˈ p aɪ k əl /) is a major appliance manufacturer founded in 1934. [3] It is a subsidiary of Chinese multinational home appliances company Haier [ 3 ] and is based in East Tāmaki , New Zealand.
Emerson subsequently sold Fisher to Sanyo Electric of Japan in 1975. In 2000, Fisher's entire product lineup was re-branded as Sanyo. Upon the acquisition of Sanyo by Panasonic in 2011, [7] Sanyo's product lineup was, in turn, re-branded as Panasonic. [8] Avery Fisher remained as a consultant for Emerson and Sanyo.
National was well known throughout Asia as a reputable manufacturer of domestic appliances such as rice cookers. In 2004, the "National" brand was gradually phased out in Asia , the penultimate market it was used in, with most products being rebranded under the Panasonic brand after the company decided to unify all their businesses under the ...
Robinsons Retail Holdings, Inc., trading as RRHI, is one of the largest multi-format retailers in the Philippines. Founded by Filipino industrialist John L. Gokongwei, Jr. in 1980, Robinsons Retail started as Robinsons Department Store in Robinsons Place Manila.
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