Complet Electro Serv (CES), a company whose majority shareholder is entrepreneur Dan Ostahie, posted RON264.9 million revenue, 84.5% higher than in 2015 and RON3.6 million net profit, 41.9% higher than in the previous year. Average number of employees rose by 1 to 25, while debt stood at RON61.1 million on December 31, 2016.
The second leading actor on this market is Maguay Computers, which posted RON28.3 million revenue in 2016, down 34.5% year-on-year. It posted RON140,690 net profit, 94.9% lower than in 2015 and had 26 employees, one more than in 2015.
The share of desktops, the type of computers local vendors mostly assemble, in the total computer sales has gone down to about 30%, so the market is now dominated by laptops.
The largest actors on the local PC market are those that dominate the global industry, Lenovo, Asus, Acer, HP and Apple.
The local PC market will remain at about the same level as in 2016, when sales stood at some 685,000 units, because users turn to other gadgets, such as smartphones and do not invest as often in replacing their desktop or laptop computers, as Aurel Netin, country manager Lenovo Romania, previously told ZF.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)