Konosuke Matsushita

In 1947 Konosuke lent his brother-in-law Toshio an unutilized manufacturing plant to manufacture bicycle lamps which eventually became Sanyo Electric. From 1950 to 1973 Matsushita's company became one of the world’s largest manufacturers of electrical goods sold under well-known trademarks including Panasonic and Technics. Expansion
Matsushita learned a very important lesson in terms of growing a company while he was trying to introduce his bicycle lamp to wholesalers.

For many Japanese he is known as "the god of management". A biography of Matsushita's life called Matsushita Leadership was written by American business management specialist John Kotter in 1998. Konosuke Matsushita (松下 幸之助 Matsushita Kōnosuke? November 27 1894 – April 27 1989) was a Japanese industrialist the founder of Panasonic a company based in the suburb of Kadoma (on the Keihan line) Osaka in Japan.