Leadership (Abuja)
Peter Ailuorio, Lagos
5 October 2007
Panasonic and Skye Bank of Nigeria Plc yesterday at Muson Centre in Lagos sealed a deal in form of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enable the latter provide financing to deserving customers of Panasonic Audio- Visual Products including viera Plasma/LCD TV and Panasonic Digital Video and still camera.
Announcing the offer at the media launch of Panasonic Products at the commercial city of Lagos, the general manager of Skye Bank, Mr. Dotun Adeniyi, assured that his bank has tremendous capacity to handle the demands such products would consume, adding that the tremendous success which Panasonic air conditioners have recorded in Nigeria endeared the company to think towards this direction.
Mr. Takaki Yasumoto, general manager of corporate Management Division for CIS, the Middle East and Africa in Matsushita Electric Industrial Company, Japan who signed on behalf of Panasonic said the launch of his company world class viera Plasma and LCD Televisions is set to define the future of televisions sets in Nigeria, adding "alongside our viera range of TV sets, we are also introducing yet another set of revolutionary products - would class intelligent LUMIX digital still cameras and E.CAM, digital cam-coders, better known as digital video cameras." He further disclosed that his company, Matsushita electric industrial company was founded in 1918.
Earlier in an opening address, Mr. Boraj Rupani, director, Panaserv while re-emphasizing how his company has been instrumental in bringing the latest technology in Air-conditioning business in Nigeria as well as after sales service to ensure customer satisfaction, further said that they will apply the same intensity for the full range of new Panasonic Products being unveiled.
While assuring Panasonic good business environment, the commissioner for commerce and industry in Lagos, Honourable Niyi Oyemade, commended Panasonic ideas, adding that "Lagos State government will continue to support productive and innovative ventures like this."
In his speech, Mr. Adebiyi who represented the director general of Standard Organisation of Nigeria, SON, Professor John Akanya, tasked prospective investors in digital business to emulate the quality of Panasonic products.
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