Panasonic maker Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. said on Friday it will sell its cathode ray tube (CRT) business in Germany to two investment firms to boost operational efficiency.

　　CRTs are used in conventional television sets.

　　Matsushita will sell 96 percent of the German unit， which has a capacity to make 1.5 million CRTs a year， to Dutch-based investment firm Here Genesis BV， with the remainder sold to another investment company set up by the unit's executives.

　　Matsushita， the world's largest plasma TV maker， declined to disclose the selling price， but said it has no plan to revise its earnings forecast as a result of the deal.

　　The subsidiary ceased operations in March 2006. It still has land and factory buildings although production equipment has already been taken away.

　　Shares in Matsushita closed up 1.5 percent at 2，445 yen ahead of the announcement.

　　日本松下公司上周五宣布，為了提高公司的效率，該公司將出售其在德國的傳統(tǒng)顯像管電視（CRT）業(yè)務(wù)，而買家則是德國的兩家投資公司。

　　據(jù)松下公司透露，該公司將出售其在德國CRT業(yè)務(wù)中96%的股份給丹麥一家名為Here Genesis BV的公司，其余4%的股份將出售給松下德國CRT工廠的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)層。松下這家位于德國的CRT電視工廠年產(chǎn)量是150萬臺(tái)。

　　松下公司是全球最大的

　　松下公司在德國的CRT電視工廠在2006年3月份停止生產(chǎn)。雖然大量的生產(chǎn)設(shè)備已經(jīng)被出售，但這家工廠仍擁有廠房和土地資源。

　　上周五，受這次交易的影響，松下公司的股價(jià)上漲1.5%，至2455日元。