Recently, Matsushita to spend 4.6 billion acquisition of Sanyo Electric Co. have reached an agreement, industry insiders say the deal could lead to the tram between battery manufacturers a new round of mergers and of acquisitions wave. Because automakers are reluctant to rely too heavily on a limited number of batteries. rechargeable laptop battery ,dell fk890 battery,dell gk479 battery
According to “Japan’s Sankei Shimbun” reported on 10, the shares from Sanyo, Panasonic on the acquisition of shares has been officially open ended December 9, the first to obtain a majority stake in the second. Sanyo, Panasonic later this month to pay the shareholders of the parties to acquire a corresponding amount included in the Sanyo officially become Japan’s electronics industry leading companies.
Last year, Panasonic, Sanyo and other major shareholders three financial firms Goldman Sachs agreed to buy shares in the open form of acquisition of Sanyo is expected to acquire the entire amount will be over 560 billion yen (approximately U.S. $ 6.4 billion). According converted into common shares, the three financial institutions, sony vgp-bps2c battery , sony vgp-bpl2 battery approximately 70% of Sanyo shares.
And the United States, the European Union and the fight against China-monopoly investigation, the acquisition has been delayed. But with the U. S. Federal Trade Commission approved the acquisition conditions November 24 Panasonic Sanyo, because the European Union and the Chinese government has also approved the acquisition, Panasonic Sanyo antitrust barriers to the acquisition has been virtually erased.
Despite the anti-monopoly body to meet the regulatory requirements of the private company, the two companies combined will rechargeable batteries, toshiba pa3191u-1bas battery , ibm thinkpad t40 battery particularly nickel-hydride batteries in metal in the field of supremacy.
According to Panasonic is expected that by 2018, when the battery market will grow five times to the present, to 3.2 trillion yen (about 36 billion U.S. $) scale.
According Tencent Finance 16 new, say insiders, the battery will be the manufacturers of various cars such as Toyota Motor and other major components of products, car manufacturers may attempt mergers and acquisitions are key components of corporate production, automotive and electronics industry to be conducted on a wave of mergers and acquisitions.
With this acquisition, Sanyo, Matsushita will be the public, sony vgp-bps9a/b battery , sony vgp-bps10 battery customers such as Ford and Honda. 2011 Matsushita plans to ¥ 123,000,000,000 investment will increase the capacity of its lithium battery 3 times to the present.
There are analysts at investment bank considers that the development of new energy technologies tram could be Panasonic and Sanyo will provide more than the bargaining power of manufacturers.
According to market research agency Tokyo Japan Economic Center Co. said that, like most of the year in recent years, Sanyo is the world’s largest manufacturer of rechargeable batteries, Panasonic and Sanyo and market share reached 43%.
And there are car manufacturers are expected, if the price of oil has continued for more than 70 U.S. dollars a barrel level, then the tram from the global demand for automobiles in 2020, this share should reach 10%. apple a1281 battery Therefore, the face of a huge market, car manufacturers, or produce their own batteries, or an alliance with the battery manufacturer.
Last month, Sony said that, once outside, is negotiating with several companies to supply for automotive lithium battery, and Sony plans to invest 100 billion yen on R & D development of rechargeable batteries.
Battery maker BYD has also agreed in May lithium battery to power hybrid vehicles and automotive fields to cooperate with Volkswagen.
And the majority of manufacturers believe that Panasonic Sanyo acquisitions have no significant impact on the global market.