Where does the name Panasonic come from?
The brand name Panasonic came along in 1955, when Matsushita were expanding into international markets. They discovered the brand name National was already in use so they chose the name Panasonic, initially for their operations in the United States, Canada and Mexico. How the name came about is charmingly simple. They were selling radios, and put together the words Pan meaning all, and sonic for sound, so Panasonic simply means all sound. When you think of the modern terms such as surround sound and the like, the early adoption of all sound as a name was pretty good, really.
