Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Indian PC mkt grow 23.6% in Q2: IDC

PC market in India grew 23.6 per cent to 2.55 million units in the April-June period over the previous quarter, according to research firm IDC.
The overall India PC shipments in Q1 this year stood at 2.06 million units.The consumer PC market recorded 1.16 million units, growing 12.8 per cent q-o-q over Q1 2014.The commercial PC segment registered quarter-on-quarter growth of 34.5 per cent over Q1 2014.
HP emerged as the numero uno player with 29.5 per cent share in the Indian PC market, helped by the execution of large education deals in the state government of Tamil Nadu.
Dell captured the second spot with a market share of 19.1 per cent, while Lenovo ranked third in the tally with 13.9 per cent share in the quarter.
IDC anticipates increase in consumer spending both as a result of seasonality owing to festive buying and cautious end user spending on high end smart phones.