Panasonic announced its intention to simplify the Sanyo brand. In the summer, Panasonic also reached an agreement to acquire the remaining shares of Sanyo for $ 9.4 billion.
The company became a subsidiary of Panasonic in 2009. Sanyo website in December of the same year. The official notice of the purchase could be read on the Page) about the alleged redemption, which was to make Sanyo a subsidiary of Panasonic.
In the autumn of 2008, an agreement was reached between Sanyo and Panasonic (Service Manuals PDF November 2006 was marked by large losses and staff reductions. In the winter of 2005, the company patented the new Super Sharp technology. Ultimately, this was an unfortunate step, as Blu-ray became more successful. Of Sony, Blu-ray, and instead turned their attention to HD DVD ( Toshiba(Manuals PDF page)). However, relatively recently the company refused to support the format Video format in the early 80s, and later pioneers in the implementation of a very successful Video8 format. The Betamax video format from the time of its invention until the mid-1980s (the most sold VCR in the UK in 1983 was the Sanyo VTC5000), VHS Technologically, Sanyo had a good "relationship" with Sony(Service Manuals page) : they supported The name of the company meant in Japanese "three oceans", appealing to the founder's ambition to sell products around the world - across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. In 1954 came the first washing machine vibration type in Japan. Within two years it released the first Japanese radio from plastic. Some SANYO Mobile Phone User Manuals PDF above the page.