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Kōnosuke Matsushita
Kōnosuke Matsushita was a Japanese industrialist who founded Panasonic, the largest Japanese consumer electronics company. Matsushita is referred to as the "God of Management" in Japan.
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business · Japanese industrialist (1894–1989) · entrepreneur · businessperson · inventor · politician · industrialist · also Kōnosuke Matsushita, Matsushita
Born 27 November 1894 · Died 27 April 1989 · Q252785
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2018· 1 entry
Won China Reform Friendship Medal (2018).
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2013· 1 entry
ジャパンタイムズ: “Konosuke Matsushita and Japanese Traditional Art Crafts”
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1989· 1 entry
Died 1989-04-27.
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1987· 1 entry
Was awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers
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1979· 1 entry
At the age of 84, he founded the Matsushita Institute of Government and Management to train the future politicians and businessmen of Japan
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1961· 1 entry
And was succeeded as president by his son-in-law, Masaharu Matsushita
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1947· 1 entry
Kōnosuke lent his brother-in-law Toshio an underused manufacturing plant to manufacture bicycle lamps, a business that eventually became Sanyo Electric
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1929· 1 entry
Began setting up a new structure for his company, which was structured as a parent company and branches of divisions that specialized in a particular product were created
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1917· 1 entry
Matsushita left Osaka Electric Light Company to establish his own company
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1894· 1 entry
Born 1894-11-27.
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