“In the third quarter, we sold 172,000 units, a 9% increase on the preceding year. HP Romania ranked first in terms of number of units,” Tiberiu Dobre, manager of the local PSG (Personal System Group) division of US company Hewlett – Packard (HP) told ZF.
HP claims the no. 1 position for itself in terms of PC sales. Dobre also mentions as a source of information a survey by market research company IDC.
He said at the beginning of 2011 that the market would amount to 700,000 units, but now expects this figure to be exceeded.
“The fourth quarter is expected to be very good although initially, when we were in the planning stage, we had quite a high stock of products. (…) Sales are very good at the moment and in the fourth quarter we expect more than 150,000 laptops to be sold on the overall market,” said Bogdan Iftemie, sales manager of the local subsidiary of Taiwan’s Acer, one of the leading companies on the market.
Acer expects, as does HP, to end the year as market leader in Romania. “We will definitely end the year as no.1 on the market in terms of the number of units sold.”
Representatives of Japanese company Sony also have optimistic estimates for this year in terms of laptop sales.
“We are hoping to sell twice as many laptops as we did last year. As for the market, it could reach or even exceed 500,000 units by the end of the year,” Mircea Stoicescu, Trade Marketing Manager for Romania of Sony for the Vaio business, told ZF.
(English version by Daniela Stoican)