{"id":13261,"date":"2017-02-20T17:09:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T09:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=13261"},"modified":"2022-05-19T09:56:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T01:56:12","slug":"panasonic-targets-sales-growth-in-ph-this-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/02\/20\/panasonic-targets-sales-growth-in-ph-this-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Panasonic targets sales growth in Ph this 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Japanese products maker, Panasonic Manufacturing Philippines Corp. (PMPC) aims to grow its sales this year by 120 percent as it hopes to hitch a ride on growing consumer spending in the country, its top official said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">In an interview with The STAR, PMPC president Shinichi Hayashi said it expects growth to continue with the launch of more products.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">In 2016, sales grew 130 percent, exceeding the company\u2019s target.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Hayashi said this year\u2019s sales goal is conservative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u201cOur 50th year drives us to achieve more and be more as we continuously aim to be innovator and leader in the industry where we operate.The company is ready to meet the needs and demands of our market in the Philippines,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u201cFilipino consumers remain to be our motivation in creating products that would be part in making living easy and convenient for them,\u201d Hayashi added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">PMPC will launch a series of locally-made \u201cJapan Quality\u201d refrigerator models to commemorate its 50th anniversary in addition to the new models Top Freezer, Bottom Freezers and French door.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"> Parent firm Panasonic Corp. is set to mark its 100th year in 2018. It hopes to strengthen its merchandising and marketing strategies in Asia that will include the enhancement of premium products and strengthen their alliance with partners and dealers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philstar.com\/business\/2017\/02\/19\/1673562\/panasonic-eyes-more-double-sales-phl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">philstar<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.panasonic.com\/ph\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">panasonic<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese products maker, Panasonic Manufacturing Philippines Corp. (PMPC) aims to grow its sales this year by 120 percent as it hopes to hitch a ride on growing consumer spending in the country, its top official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/02\/panasonic-e1487580666559.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65135,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13261\/revisions\/65135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}