Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. ( , ) is a major Japanese electronics company and member of the Fortune 500 whose headquarters is located in Moriguchi, Osaka prefecture, Japan. Sanyo targets the middle of the market and has over 324 offices and plants worldwide , together employing more than 11,000 employees blank">Sanyo Corporate Profile .

Sanyo was founded by Toshio Iue (井植 歳男 Iue Toshio, 1902 - _1969), the brother-in-law of Konosuke Matsushita and also a former Matsushita employee, in 1947 and was incorporated in 1950. The company's name means three oceans in Japanese, referring to the founder's ambition to sell their products worldwide, across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans.