| 1918 Founded Matsushita Electric Appliance Manufacturing Works in Osaka; began producing wiring devices. |
| 1923 Launched a bullet-shaped battery-powered lamp. |
| 1927 Trademarked the "National" brand. |
| 1933 Moved headquarters to Kadoma; introduced the divisional system. |
| 1935 Founded Matsushita Electric Trading Co., Ltd.; reorganized into Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. |
| 1949 Listed on the Tokyo and Osaka Stock Exchanges. |
| 1952 Partnered with Phillips; established Matsushita Electronics Co., Ltd. |
| 1953 Established Central Research Laboratory. |
| 1954 Formed a capital alliance with Japan Victor Co., Ltd. |
| 1955-1956 Established Kyushu Matsushita Electric Co., Ltd. and Osaka Electric Appliances Co., Ltd. |
| 1958 Founded Matsushita Communication Industrial Co., Ltd.; separated communication equipment manufacturing. |
| 1959 Established Matsushita Electric Corporation of America. |
| 1961 Masaharu Matsushita became President. |
| 1969 Established Matsushita Jushi Industrial Co., Ltd. |
| 1971 Listed on the New York Stock Exchange. |
| 1976 Established Matsushita Electronic Components Co., Ltd. |
| 1977 Founded Matsushita Housing Equipment Co., Ltd. and Matsushita Industrial Equipment Co., Ltd. |
| 1979 Established Matsushita Battery Industrial Co., Ltd. |
| 1985 Established financial subsidiaries in the U.S. and Europe; founded the Semiconductor Research Laboratory. |
| 1986 Akio Tanii became President. |
| 1988 Merged with Matsushita Electric Trading Co., Ltd. |
| 1989 Founder Konosuke Matsushita passed away. |
| 1990 Acquired MCA Inc. |
| 1993 Yoichi Morishita became President; ended joint venture with Phillips, acquiring all shares. |
| 1995 Merged with Matsushita Housing Equipment Co., Ltd.; sold 80% of MCA Inc. shares to Seagram. |
| 1999 Cancelled 50 million shares. |
| 2000 Fully acquired Matsushita Reizo Co., Ltd.; Kunio Nakamura became President. |
| 2001 Merged with Matsushita Electronics Co., Ltd. |
| 2002 Established Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd. with Toshiba. |
| 2003 Shifted to business domain-based management; fully acquired Matsushita Electronic Components Co., Ltd. and Matsushita Battery Industrial Co., Ltd. |
| 2004 Increased ownership in Matsushita Electric Works Co., Ltd., making it a consolidated subsidiary. |
| 2005 Merged with Matsushita Industrial Information Equipment Co., Ltd. |
| 2006 Sold all Universal Studios shares to Vivendi Universal; Fumio Ohtsubo became President. |
| 2007 Fully acquired Matsushita Toshiba Video Display Co., Ltd. |
| 2008 Merged with Matsushita Reizo Co., Ltd.; renamed to Panasonic Corporation; merged with Matsushita Battery Industrial Co., Ltd. |
| 2009 Sold Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd. shares to Toshiba; acquired majority stake in Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. |
| 2010 Transferred Panasonic Communications Co., Ltd. business; renamed to Panasonic System Networks Co., Ltd. |
| 2011 Fully acquired Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd. and Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. |
| 2012 Kazuhiro Tsuga became President; merged with Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd. |
| 2013 Panasonic System Solutions Japan merged with Panasonic System Networks; transitioned to a new group structure. |
| 2014 Sold all Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd. shares; transferred semiconductor business to Panasonic Semiconductor Solutions Co., Ltd. |
| 2020 Established Prime Life Technologies Co., Ltd. and Prime Planet Energy & Solutions Co., Ltd. in joint ventures with Toyota. |
| 2021 Yuki Kusumi became President; acquired all shares of Blue Yonder Holding, Inc. |
| 2022 Transitioned to a holding company system, renamed to Panasonic Holdings Corporation. |
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