Panasonic traces its corporate history to March 7, 1918, when Konosuke Matsushita, his wife Mumeno and her brother Toshio Iue established Matsushita Electric Housewares Manufacturing Works in Osaka. The business developed across electrical components, household appliances, audio-visual products, batteries, industrial systems and many other technology categories before adopting Panasonic as the main global corporate name. The present group structure is important because “Panasonic” is both a global brand and part of a multi-company organization. In April 2022 the former Panasonic Corporation became a holding company, changed its name to Panasonic Holdings Corporation and transferred operating businesses into a group of operating companies.
Panasonic Holdings Corporation remains headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka, while the operating company named Panasonic Corporation currently lists its headquarters at the Panasonic Meguro Building in Shinagawa, Tokyo and focuses on consumer products and related business solutions. A directory profile that simply labels every Panasonic product as being sold directly by Panasonic Holdings would therefore be misleading. The relevant company depends on the product, country and business unit. Panasonic's public group materials cover consumer appliances, beauty and health products, audio-visual equipment, bicycles, batteries, components, professional systems and business solutions, but portfolio boundaries continue to change through reorganizations, acquisitions and divestitures.
Product support is similarly regional and category-specific. Warranty terms, authorized service networks, software or firmware updates, spare parts and repair processes can differ by market and product line. The U.S. Panasonic shop currently operates a Support Hub that routes customers to product support, manuals, firmware, service and repair, warranty information, registration and chat, and it explicitly provides a separate route for international assistance. Other countries publish their own support pages and phone numbers. That is more reliable than treating an old manual's service number as a global hotline.
Corporate switchboard details published by Panasonic Holdings are appropriate for group-level corporate contact but should not be mislabeled as consumer technical support. Customers should use the country site and exact model number shown on their product, particularly for warranties or repairs. The brand's long history also creates an unusually large amount of outdated web information: old Matsushita Electric Industrial, pre-2022 Panasonic Corporation and current Panasonic Holdings references can all be genuine while describing different periods. The stable facts are the 1918 Osaka origin under Konosuke Matsushita, current Panasonic Holdings Corporation group structure, Kadoma headquarters for the holding company, Panasonic Corporation as a principal operating company and panasonic.com as the global brand domain. Executive names, employee totals, group-company counts and portfolio segments are dated figures and should be refreshed from current corporate pages rather than treated as permanent Profile facts.
