Author Topic: 'Panasonic Loosing Money & Cutting Employees' (Read 788 times)

Panther · « **on:** April 28, 2011, 09:23:43 AM »

This is an informative post - make your own conclusions..
--> http://www.43rumors.com/panasonic-to-cut-35-000-overseas-employees/

adash · « **Reply #1 on:** April 28, 2011, 09:54:07 AM »

Panasonic's main business is not m4/3. It's not cameras at all.

Panther · « **Reply #2 on:** April 28, 2011, 09:56:36 AM »

Quote from: adash on April 28, 2011, 09:54:07 AM

Panasonic's main business is not m4/3. It's not cameras at all.

Quite correct - and very true.
Bottom line appears to be that Panasonic is losing money off digital cameras and NOT their other businesses....

adash · « **Reply #3 on:** April 28, 2011, 10:02:26 AM »

They don't only sell m4/3. They have lots of compact cameras. I think a 10% drop in sales with such wonderful products makes no sense. The reason could be marketing/distribution/supply chain etc.

Panther · « **Reply #4 on:** April 28, 2011, 10:09:23 AM »

Remember,
I was quoting you again...

adash · « **Reply #5 on:** April 28, 2011, 10:11:34 AM »

Quote from: Panther on April 28, 2011, 10:09:23 AM

Remember,
I was quoting you again...

So what should I do according to you? I don't seem to catch the reason for the winking face. What do you mean?

Panther · « **Reply #6 on:** April 28, 2011, 10:16:55 AM »

Whatever you want....
That being said, I am curious to know what Panasonic's biggest sellers are in terms of all the digital camera stuff....

Centauri27 · « **Reply #7 on:** April 28, 2011, 03:15:23 PM »

Interesting article, but I wonder how Panasonic is doing compared to the rest of the "tier 2" camera manufacturers... (from what I gather, Panasonic's photo division is doing no better or worse than Olympus')

count_zero · « **Reply #8 on:** April 28, 2011, 04:26:12 PM »

I'm not sure if this news is really photo division related. I do know they are scrapping a lot of niche audio products like the Technics 1210 turn tables. That entire manufacturing line will be cut or sold off. I wouldn't be surprised to see their CDJ lines also cut since most DJ's are going pure notebook based DJ'ing.

voyager · « **Reply #9 on:** May 03, 2011, 02:56:22 PM »

Could this be nothing more than them wanting to streamline a bit?

'Panasonic Loosing Money & Cutting Employees'