Iue Toshio

Iue Toshio (Japanese 井 植 歳 男, born December 28, 1902 , Awaji-shima , Hyōgo Prefecture ; † July 16, 1969 ) was a Japanese inventor and industrialist. After several decades as a manager in the company of his brother-in-law Matsushita Kōnosuke , he founded the Sanyo company in 1947 .

biography

Toshio Iue was born the son of a sailor on Awaji-shima . From the beginning he worked in the company Matsushita Electric Industrial (now Panasonic Corporation ) founded by his brother-in-law Matsushita Kōnosuke in Osaka in 1918 , which grew from originally three employees to several 10,000 by the Second World War and in which he held leading positions. After the defeat of Japan, the group was classified as Zaibatsu by the Supreme Commander , and the management with Matsushita and Iue was dismissed. While Matsushita was able to return in 1947, Iue founded the Sanyo company in the same year with the support of Sumitomo Bank (now Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group ) in a former Matsushita plant in Hyōgo Prefecture, which manufactured products similar to Matsushita. Toshio Iue managed the company until 1968, being succeeded by his younger brother. In 2009, Sanyo was taken over by Panasonic.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kanji Miyamoto; International Management Accounting in Japan: Current Status of Electronics Companies; World Scientific Publishing Company (2008)

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Iue is the family name, Toshio the first name.