What Happened to Sanyo.com? Sanyo是一家电子公司，总部位于日本大阪。它是《财富》 500强公司的成员。该公司制造和销售各种电子设备。它支持命运多Beta的Betamax，一位作家称其为“最大的失误”之一。 一次，三洋成立了一家名为三洋半导体的子公司。该子公司生产和销售半导体产品，例如集成数字和模拟系统，硬连线逻辑IC和超小型晶体管。三洋随后将三洋半导体出售给安森美半导体。 今天，如果您尝试查找Sanyo.com，则会收到一条短消息：“在此服务器上找不到所请求的URL。” 一家公司曾经声称“为55年来超过4000万美国消费者提供了高质量的电视” ，该公司可能会发生什么呢？ 我们花了一些时间来了解Sanyo.com的情况。本文沿用了公司的历史，介绍了其生产的某些产品，面临的挑战以及将三洋半导体出售给安森美半导体的情况。最后，我们找出Sanyo.com发生了什么。 Sanyo.com的历史 三洋由井上敏夫（Toshio Iue）于1947年成立。它成立于1949年。井上受到父亲的影响，父亲拥有一艘船，前往日本的其他港口。 父亲去世后，埃埃继续在海上的冒险。他对海洋的热爱是如此之深，以至于他创办一家公司时将其命名为Sanyo，其含义是“三大洋”。 成立三年后，三洋制造了日本第一台塑料收音机。1953年，该公司在日本制造了第一台波轮洗衣机，这又是另一项开创性成就，被公司称为“日本消费电子产品繁荣的里程碑”。 建立三洋半导体 2006年，三洋创建了一家子公司，称为三洋半导体。子公司生产功率器件技术。在描述其产品时，该公司表示：“它正在开发集成化模拟和数字系统，超小型晶体管，硬连线逻辑IC，Bi-CMOS IC和模数混合IC以及可减小并降低功耗的厚膜IC。电子设备。” 除上述产品外，三洋半导体还列出了许多产品中的“用于游戏机，手机和数码相机的电机驱动器IC”。该公司的技术被用于各种产品，例如电视，汽车立体声系统，空调和视听设备。 挑战 在三洋半导体成立的那一年，三洋面临着许多挑战。《日本时报》 2006年11月发表的一篇文章报道说，由于公司面临的挑战，该公司宣布将削减1500名本地工人和700名海外员工，以在2007财年内将其年度薪资减少170亿日元。 。 松下收购三洋并出售三洋半导体 松下在2009年宣布，“已完成对三洋电机有限公司大多数有投票权股票的收购”。根据公告，此次收购使三洋成为“松下的合并子公司”。 2010年7月，三洋将其半导体子公司以3.66亿美元的价格卖给了美国芯片制造商安森美半导体。电子新闻出版物EEPower.com报道说：“ ON Semi表示，此次收购将扩大并加强其产品组合。” 松下后来又收购了三洋的30％的股份。松下于2010年12月宣布将收购三洋的全部股份。这将使三洋成为松下的全资子公司。 Sanyo was an electronic company headquartered in Osaka, Japan. It was a member of the Fortune 500. The company manufactured and sold a wide range of electronic equipment. It backed the ill-fated Betamax, which one writer calls one of the “biggest blunders.” At one time, Sanyo established a subsidiary named Sanyo Semiconductor. The subsidiary manufactured and sold semiconductor products like integrating digital and analog systems, hard-wired logic ICs, and ultra-small transistors. Sanyo would later sell Sanyo Semiconductor to ON Semiconductor.
Today, if you try to find Sanyo.com, you get a short message: “The requested URL was not found on this server.” What could have happened to a firm that at one time claimed to have “provided high-quality TVs to over 40 million American consumers and for over 55 years”? We took some time to find out what happened to Sanyo.com. This article follows the company’s history, looks at some of the products it manufactured, its challenges, and the sale of Sanyo Semiconductor to ON Semiconductor. Finally, we find out what happened to Sanyo.com. The History of Sanyo.com Sanyo was established in 1947 by Toshio Iue. It was incorporated in 1949. Iue was influenced by his father, who owned a ship and traveled to different ports in Japan. When his father died, Iue continued his adventures on the sea. His love for the sea was so deep that when he started a company, he named it Sanyo, which translates to “three oceans.” Three years after its incorporation, Sanyo made Japan’s first plastic radio. In 1953, the company saw another first when it made the first pulsator-type washing machine in Japan, creating what the company calls a “milestone in Japan's consumer electronics boom.” Establishing Sanyo Semiconductor In 2006, Sanyo created a subsidiary, calling it Sanyo Semiconductor. The subsidiary manufactured power device technologies. In describing its products, the company said that “It develops integrating analog and digital systems, ultra-small transistors, hard-wired logic ICs, Bi-CMOS IC and analog-digital mixed IC, and thick film ICs that miniaturizes and reduces power consumption of electronic devices.” Apart from the products listed above, Sanyo Semiconductor listed “motor driver ICs for game machines, cell phones, and digital cameras” among its many products. The company’s technologies were used in various products like televisions, car stereo systems, air conditioners, and audio-visual equipment. The Challenges In the year when Sanyo Semiconductor was established, Sanyo was facing many challenges. An article published by The Japan Times in November 2006 reported that as a result of the challenges the company was facing, it announced that it would cut “1,500 local workers and 700 overseas to reduce its annual payroll by 17 billion yen in the 2007 business year.”
Unhappy Investors and Deals Falling Through Things would get worse in 2007 when Reuters reported that due to the “dire conditions, some investors were looking for more drastic measures such as pulling out of businesses.” The news agency quotes Sanyo Vice President Koichi Maeda, who admitted that his company was “late to adapt to rapid changes in the mobile phone market.” Problems seemed to pile on Sanyo in 2007. Reuters reported that Sanyo’s deal to manufacture mobile phones with Nokia jointly had been scrapped. Sanyo also announced that its plans to work with Quanta Computer Inc. in the television business were not going to be as big as forecast. The Accounting Probe As if Sanyo's operational challenges were not enough, reports started surfacing in 2007 that the company was under an accounting probe. An article published by MarketWatch.com reports that when the company admitted to the probe, its shares lost about a third of their value. It looks like the probe was related to the fact that Sanyo was not declaring all its losses. MarketWatch.com quotes reports which speculated that if the company had been revealing its true losses, it “would likely have fallen into the red for that business year [2004].” We could not find much information about what the conclusions of the probe were. With all the company’s challenges at that time, it’s not surprising that its executives started leaving due to pressure from investors. The Wall Street Journal reports that in 2007, most members of Sanyo's founding family, including Satoshi Iue (a top advisor at that time) and Toshimasa Iue (President/COO, the grandson of the company’s founder Toshio Iue), left the company. Panasonic Acquires Sanyo and Sells Sanyo Semiconductor In 2009, Panasonic announced that it had “completed the acquisition of a majority of the voting stock of SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.” According to the announcement, the acquisition made Sanyo a “consolidated subsidiary of Panasonic.” In July 2010, Sanyo sold its semiconductor subsidiary to the US chipmaker ON Semiconductor for $366 million. The electronic news publication EEPower.com reported that “ON Semi states that this acquisition will expand and strengthen its product portfolio.” Panasonic would later acquire another 30% of Sanyo shares. In December 2010, Panasonic announced that it would acquire all the Sanyo shares. This would make Sanyo a wholly-owned subsidiary of Panasonic. What Then Happened to Sanyo.com? Following the complete acquisition of Sanyo by Panasonic in 2010, Sanyo.com started redirecting to the Panasonic website. The redirect seems to have worked for several years until the end of 2020. An article published by AVInteractive.com says that Panasonic had delivered a letter to business partners indicating that the Sanyo brand would be shuttered in the first half of 2012. The magazine says that the news was coming “off the back of Panasonic forecasting its biggest annual loss in 10 years.” With regards to Sanyo Semiconductors, ON Semiconductor sent a message to its customers on October 29, 2012, announcing that Sanyo Semiconductor's “business processes and systems have been replaced by existing ON Semiconductor practices and procedures as of Monday, October 29, 2012.” In a May 2013 article, Reuters reports that “Sanyo may cease to exist under Panasonic reorganization.” Reports from 2016 indicated that Panasonic was reviving the Sanyo brand only for the Indian market, which enjoyed great brand equity. |
