“The second quarter was a moderate one for HP, with a single-digit growth in the second quarter,” said Dobre, adding he is expecting the reports of research companies on the overall evolution of the market before he makes further comments on the evolution of sales.
“This moderation has to do with the size of the market. There are many question marks for the second quarter.”
The HP official says though that the Romanian PC market can see 10% growth for the full year.
“It is hard to say how the market will evolve until the end of the year. I keep my optimism and believe the Romanian market still has great potential, so at the end of the year, we will see around 10% growth.”
A total 685,000 PCs were sold on the Romanian market last year, as opposed to one million computers in 2008, the best year for the local IT&C market.
Dobre said Romania has seen business booms throughout the time, but, he added, they were artificial. He pointed out, however, that any growth at all is very good.
“If we have 5-10% growth we should be happy because it is a very good thing. It would be a shame to grow 30% now and fall 20% next year.”
He says there are European countries that fall by 5, 10, 20%, so under the circumstances it is not bad at all to have growth of 1,2,3 percent.
(English version by Daniela Stoican)