Word: sanyo
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...costs by $890 million overall in the coming 24 months. Sony will close up to six factories and cut 16,000 jobs from its electronics divisions, to address what JPMorgan Securities analyst Yoshiharu Izumi called the company's "emergency situation." Panasonic, which recently bought a majority stake in Sanyo, is closing three plants...
Capturing daily life in China is fun at a moment when history is being made almost every day, but carrying around two cameras--for stills and video--can be frustrating. The tiny Sanyo Xacti CG65 takes 6-megapixel photos and can produce Web-ready video...
...With a decade of experience in the market, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Sanyo, Palm and Blackberry, have all been developing iPhone alternatives. Apple left its rivals competitive room by omitting some bells and whistles on the iPhone...
Nonaka also underestimated the difficulty of selling her plan internally. She reorganized Sanyo's 300 subsidiaries into three divisions, environment, energy and lifestyle, and began marketing new products such as a battery that could be recharged with a solar panel and a washing machine that recycled water. These moves were a hard sell at a proud manufacturing company like Sanyo, which started by making bicycle lamps in 1947 and is best known for refrigerators and batteries. "Talking about the environment doesn't send a good message to the old-timers who made Sanyo what it is," says Hideyo Waki...
With Nonaka gone, analysts expect Sanyo to sell losing divisions while focusing on its best product: rechargeable batteries. But even her critics say that Nonaka may simply have been ahead of her time. Better-financed companies are attempting the same kind of corporate reinvention with more success. Archer Daniels Midland, the U.S. food-processing giant, has become a hot stock-market play as America's largest producer of ethanol, an alternative fuel. "The direction toward environmental issues is the right one," says Tatsuya Mizuno, an analyst with Fitch Ratings. But it's too soon for some CEOs to bet that...