What a shocker

[Cricketbat70]

I have worked for my employer for 22 years this year and historically Panasonic were always our best selling TV brand and widely considered as the best.
That all changed a number of years ago when Panasonic decided to farm out production of some models to vestel and those models were no better than supermarket brands but were quite a bit more £ than the supermarket brands. Our rep said all Panasonic are interested in, is shifting boxes in supermarkets. That all ends soon, I suppose because of the flood in Chinese brands but bye bye Panasonic TV's in Europe. According to our director Panasonic just can't make any money in TV's anymore. He also said he's surprised it hasn't had more press coverage. I don't buy What HiFi so I don't know if even they have covered it.
How the mighty have fallen.

 

[daytona600]

Chinese state-owned TCL , Hisense etc are flooding the global market selling at below cost , once all rivals have gone they will control global pricing and prices will go up not down

 

[Gray]

I spent a year installing and setting up new TVs for a local retail chain.
It was a while ago now, but I really liked everything about the Panasonic sets and MUCH preferred them to Samsung, which was the brand that more customers seemed to buy.

Sorry to see them blending in to become just another one of a similar bunch - in the same way that Sony TV has (the absolute king of TV brands in the CRT era).

 

[Cricketbat70]

Chinese state-owned TCL , Hisense etc are flooding the global market selling at below cost , once all rivals have gone they will control global pricing and prices will go up not down

Yeah I know. Those two brands are increasing in sakes for us. We didn't even start selling TCL until last year. Hisense we've only got back into stock from November this year, after not being able to get hold of them when we left Euronics at the same time Britain voted for Brexit.