Panasonic today began its long-awaited bid to take over rival Sanyo in a deal that is set to form one of the world's biggest electronics makers.

松下公司今天开始了它期待已久的收购竞争对手三洋公司的计划，收购成功后将成为世界上最大的电子产品制造商之一。

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The electronics giant Sanyo Electric Co. says it's having an increasingly harder time filling demanding management positions like supervisors for overseas factories.

电子产品巨头三洋电子说它们越来越难于找到人来填补海外工厂的主管类的职位空缺。

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Mr Balcom's firm has licensed its fuel-cell membrane technology to several large electronics firms, including NEC and Sanyo, the world's biggest maker of rechargeable batteries.

Balcom先生的公司已经给予了数家大电子公司燃料电池薄膜技术的使用许可，其中包括世界上最大的充电电池生产商，NEC和三洋。

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Yet in Nishi-Koizumi in Gunma prefecture, just north of Tokyo, a town dominated by a Sanyo electronics plant, the picture is different.

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Sanyo, another focused electronics firm, reported a 62% drop in net profits on the same day that Canon announced its cheery results.

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Its champions include Dell, Panasonic, Philips Electronics and, of course, Sony, while Toshiba, Microsoft and Sanyo, support HD DVD.

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