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Jahnatek, however, analyzes hey baby the lost trailers reiterated on lost trailers details Friday that some largeclients were drawing too much gas from the grid and warned thesystem may collapse if they did not cut their consumption. Jahnatek also said Slovakia had some 1.9 billion cubicmetres of gas in its storages, but that the pipeline system wasnot able to distribute more than 22 million cubic metres a dayand the country therefore needed gas from the outside. (Reporting by Martin Santa, writing by Peter Laca; editing byAndrew Dobbie) Stocks Russia. * Panasonic, LG aim to boost flatscreen TV sales 50 pct Stocks * LG aims for rise in plasma TV sales by 7 to 25 pct * Some analysts sceptical of growth forecasts in downturn * Tokyo Electron tool orders sink 98 pct By Sachi Izumi and Rhee So-eui TOKYO/SEOUL, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Japanese electronics makerPanasonic Corp (6752.T) said it aims to boost sales offlatscreen TVs by 50 percent, joining rival LG Electronics Incin setting bold growth targets in a slowing market. The world's largest plasma TV maker said on Friday it aimsto sell 15.5 million plasma and liquid crystal display (LCD) TVsin the year starting in April, up from estimated 2008/09 salesof 10.3 million as it increases product line-ups and expandSsales channels. The target, set in tandem with plans to cut investments ontwo new flat-screen TV plants by about $1.5 billion by 2012,would put Panasonic well ahead of estimated market growth ifachieved. It echoed ambitious projections earlier on Friday from LG,which said it aims to raise its LCD TV sales, where it ranksthird in the world, by 50 percent to 18 million sets this yearand its plasma TV sales by 7 to 25 percent to between 3 and 3.5million.

[ID:nSEO349960] One Korean analyst said LG's targets, viewed as part of astrategy to steal a march on Japanese rivals being hurt by thestrong yen, were unrealistic Samsung, which ranks No hollaback the lost trailers . 1 in LCD TVs and second in plasmaTVs, gave a more subdued forecast off at least 26 millionflat-screen TVs sold in 2009, Yonhap News reported on Thursday.That would be a growth of 10 percent for LCD TVs and 33 percentfor plasma from last year the lost cubit . [ID:nSEO96022] Research firm DisplaySearch has forecast the LCD TV marketto grow 17 percent in 2009 in unit terms, slowing from a 29percent increase in 2008, while it sees plasma TV growth of just5 percent in 2009 compared with a 24 percent rise in 2008 lost hatch . Weakening economies around the world have been eating into demand for flat TVs, digital cameras and other electronicsproducts, with Hitachi Ltd (6501.T) -- Japan's top electronicsmaker -- expecting to miss its LCD TV sales target by as much as10 percent in 2008/09 lost tailsection . [ID:nN08200013] Japan's Tokyo Electron Ltd (8035.T) said on Friday ordersfor its tools to make flat panel displays and solar panels sank98 percent to 500 million yen in October through December. Total orders at the company, which is also the world's No.2supplier of machines used to make semiconductors, fell 65percent to 37.5 billion yen. [ID:nnT94048] 'CUT-THROAT COMPETITION' Panasonic shares closed down 1.3 percent and LG shares fell3.0 percent.

Panasonic, which changed its name from Matsushita Electriclast year, had cut its net profit forecast by 90 percent inNovember, when it said it would need to restructure to weather adownturn that has already forced Sony Corp (6758.T) and otherrivals to shutter plants and cut jobs . The company warned on Friday it would be hard to reach allof its targets under its mid-term plan, and said it was cuttinginvestment on flat TV plants under construction in Hyogoprefecture, near Osaka, by 23 percent stranger in a strange land lost . "We will aim for a bigger growth than the (flatscreen)industry as we cope with a slowdown in the market," Panasonicpresident Fumio Ohtsubo told a briefing "We hope to win the cut-throat competition .. henry gale lost . We will notconsider the planned cut in investment as a negative move." Along with slowing demand, margins on TVs are also underpressure, with prices plummeting as makers and retailers try toclear piling inventories .