The Best Electronic Equipment Providers

Sanyo the leading giant in electronic, is a company incorporated in Japan in 1950 and a member of the Fortune 500. It has 324 offices and plants worldwide and employs more than 11,000 employees It was founded when Toshio Iue, the brother-in-law of Konosuke Matushita a former employee of Matusushita who was lent an unused Matushiba plant in 1947 which he used to make bicycle generator lamps. The meaning of Sanyo is three oceans referring to the ambition of the founder to sell their products across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans.

In 1952 Sanyo manufactured the first Japanese plastic radio and in 1954 they produced Japan's first pulsator-type washing machine.

In 2004 the semiconductor plant of Sanyo was struck by Chuetsu earthquake and as a result faced huge financial loss that year. 2005 was no better with loss of 205 billion yen. The same year a restructuring plan was announced a restructuring plan which envisaged a new vision to make the corporation into a environmental company producing rechargeable batteries, solar photo voltaics, hybrid car batters and air conditioning. This paved the way for Sanyo to announce and income of 2.6 billion yen.

In November 2008, Sanyo and Panasonic announced that they had agreed on a proposed buyout that would make Sanyo a subsidiary of Panasonic.

Panasonic Corporation based in Kadoma Japan was founded in 1918 under the Matsushita Electric Industrial Company and became the largeest electronic producer which manufactures electronics under the brand name of Panasonic and Technics. Forbes Global 500 ranked Panasonic as the 59th largest company in the world.

In 1927 the company adopted a brand name called National for a new lamp product. In 1955 for the first time it used its Panasonic global brand name to export audio speakers and in 1965 it started branding their products under Technics. The company unified its brands to Panasonic and by March 2004 replaced National for products and outdoor signboards, except for those in Japan. The company announced the change of their name to Panasonic Corporation with effect from October 1, 2008.

The Hewlett-Packard Company, known as HP is a technology corporation based in United States. It is the largest technology company in the world and operated in almost every country in the world.

HP specializes in developing and manufacturing, software and services and storage and networking hardware. Major products marketed are personal computing devices, enterprise servers and storage devise, printers and other imaging products. Other products include medical electronic equipment, electronic test equipment and systems, solid state components and instrumentation for chemical analysis were marketed as Agilent Technologies in 1999.

HP products are marketed to households, small to medium size businesses and enterprises, consumer electronics and office supply retailers, software partners and major technology vendors.

In 2006 HP posted a US $ 91.7 billion in annual revenue.

Samsung Group is the largest company in South Korea and the world's largest conglomerate by revenue, leading several industries in the world including Samsung Electronics, which the world's largest electronic company.

Samsung brand is best known in South Korea and in 2005 it overtook the Japanese rival Sony as the world's leading consumer electronics brand and became part of the top twenty global brands overall.