Panasonic will invest 600 billion yen ($4.9 billion) in automotive batteries, supply chain software and other areas the company sees as core to its growth.
The supplier will invest 400 billion yen in growth segments including electric-vehicle cells, and another 200 billion yen in technology such as hydrogen devices over three years through fiscal 2024, according to a statement on Friday.
Panasonic is also targeting an accumulated operating profit of 1.5 trillion yen over the period.
Panasonic, a sprawling 104-year-old Japanese company that used to top global consumer electronics sales, is seeking new avenues for growth.
The company’s previous CEO Kazuhiro Tsuga spent close to nine years shedding struggling businesses, such as plasma TVs, before handing the reins to Yuki Kusumi a year ago.
Kusumi, head of a leaner company that is no reporting losses, is now faced with the challenge of steering Panasonic onto a path of sustained growth.
He spent the past year shaping it into a holding company, which the CEO says will make it easier to decide where to invest for long-term growth.
When looking to define areas of growth, Panasonic “considered what society will look like in 2030 and back-cast from there,” Kusumi said in a briefing.
One of those areas of growth is Panasonic’s business supplying batteries for EVs. The manufacturer is in talks over a site for a factory in the U.S. where it plans to build next-generation 4680 batteries for Tesla and potentially other automakers. The multibillion-dollar plant could begin operating as soon as 2024.
Panasonic also sees opportunities in supply-chain software. Last year, it spent $7.1 billion to buy Blue Yonder, one of the Japanese company’s biggest-ever acquisitions.
Arizona-based Blue Yonder makes supply-chain management tools and uses artificial intelligence to predict product demand. The idea is to wrap Blue Yonder’s solutions together with Panasonic hardware, such as cameras and sensors, to offer higher-margin products to customers.
Kusumi said in an interview in June that he plans to spend two years “specializing and sharpening” Panasonic’s remaining businesses. Boosting efficiency over that period will increase the company’s ability to generate cash, freeing up hundreds of billions of yen to direct toward new initiatives including mergers and acquisitions, he said.
Compared with past results, Panasonic’s new operating profit target “appears ambitious,” Kusumi said. However, the company’s working on “continuously improving in order to achieve its goals,” he said, adding that over the past year he has gotten a “good sense” of what the company needs to do further develop its operations.
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