Monday, May 22, 2006
PC market grew 30 pc in 2005-06, says IDC report http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2006/05/22/stories/2006052200670200.htm
V. Rishi Kumar
Hyderabad , May 21
The Indian PC market registered an impressive growth of 30 per cent in 2005-06 over the previous fiscal, according to an IDC report released today. In terms of unit shipments, the market grew 30 per cent over 2004-05 to exceed 4.6 million, according to IDC's India Quarterly PC Market Tracker. In the overall Client PC (sum of notebook and desktop PC) market, the rankings remained unchanged.
HP retained the top slot with a market share of 18 per cent, followed by HCL (14 per cent) and Lenovo (nine per cent) in terms of unit shipments. In terms of total desktop PC shipments HCL led the market, followed by HP and Lenovo. In terms of total notebook PC shipments HP was the top vendor. During the year, while consumer desktops grew by 33 per cent, commercial desktops went up by 15 per cent, followed by desktop PCs (21 per cent). IDC said that there is buoyancy in commercial desktop market where shipments grew 14 per cent sequentially. The consumer PC market showed newfound maturity evident from the spate of Bollywood superstar endorsements in the case of promotions of desktops and notebooks from HP and Lenovo.
"For the large corporate segment, it was business as usual but it were Government and medium business that contributed significantly to this market performance," said Mr Piyush Pushkal, Senior Market Analyst, PC Research, IDC India.
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