MAIT has announced the findings of its Industry Performance Review for the first-half of the financial year 2009-10. The bi-annual Review – ITOPs, conducted by IMRB International in collaboration with MAIT. It is a survey on the IT hardware sector’s efforts to manage the business environment, gauge the market potential and consumer trends.
The findings reveal that the total PC sales between April and September 2009, with desktop computers, notebooks and netbooks taken together, were 3.71 million (37.1 lakh) units, registering a growth of one per cent over the same period last fiscal. The sales of desktops stood at 2.61 million (26.1 lakh) units registering a decline of eleven per cent, with its consumption steadily increasing in smaller towns and cities. Notebooks and Netbooks taken together recorded a consumption of 1.1 million (11 lakh) units, growing forty-three percent over the same period last year. The sales of Servers registered a decline of thirty-four per cent over the first-half of the last financial year, as sales were less than expected, while the overall printer sales which stand at 0.62 million (6.2 lakh) units, declined by twelve per cent during H1/2009-10 over the same period in the last fiscal. The UPS market, led by the households, registered a growth of one-hundred-four per cent in H1/2009-10 over H1/2008-09 with 1.58 million units.
Vinnie Mehta, Executive Director, MAIT said, “Although the sales growth was subdued in the enterprises, the overall consumption in the PC market was led by telecom, banking and financial service sectors, education and households segment. Verticals such as BPO/IT-enabled services, retail and the government, which traditionally account for significant proportion of the IT market, were very conservative in their IT spends in H1/2009-10. The first-half of the current fiscal also witnessed deviations from the traditional downward trend in pricing for IT products as the dollar continued to be significantly strong compared to the rupee. This was mitigated, to an extent, by price drops due to technology reasons and also due to intense competition. Going forward, with signs of revival in the domestic economy, we expect positive growth for PCs and other IT products for the fiscal 2009-10.”
