Laptop Industry

Laptop Overview: 

According to IDC India, a premier global market intelligence firm, the laptop market has registered 79% Year-on-Year (YoY) growth during 2006. The laptop sale is growing at much faster rate than projected. India's personal computer market is undergoing a major transition. However, laptop computers cannot completely wipe out desktop computers, because both are designed to meet different needs or different consumer segments. According to a top official of HCL Info Systems, market share of laptops would be 35-40% in the next two years.

Major Players:

The major players in the laptop category are:

o   Hewlett Packard (HP)

o   IBM

o   Toshiba

o   Compaq

o   Dell Computers

o   Sony

Growth Drivers:

·         Indian Laptop market in now in sync with global market. It was in 2005 that sales of laptops surpassed the sales of desktop computers for the first time in India.

·         The Laptop market is growing at a fast rate because of change in work life of consumers. As the need for "anytime anywhere" access to information is increasing, the sales of Laptops are also increasing.

·         Other factors that are responsible for the hike in sales figure are reduction in prices and affordability. Laptops are now sold at approximately half the price at which they were sold two years ago. Laptops prices are now almost at par with the desktop computer prices.

The third most important factor is duty free import of Laptops as a personal baggage that has helped a lot in increasing the penetration level of the product among the consumer population. Awareness about laptops has also increased over the years.

Growth of laptop is higher than desktop:

Worldwide IT spending forecast:

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Worldwide PC Shipment Forecast by region:

Market share of the netbooks worldwide:

Indian Market share:

The laptop computer market in India grew by 84.8 per cent in the third quarter of 2007 against the corresponding quarter last year, contributing significantly to the overall PC market growth of 25.1 per cent.

More than five lakh notebook PCs were sold in the quarter, a study by market analyst IDC India said today.

Hewlett Packard (HP) retained the top slot with a market share of 37.8 per cent, while Lenovo occupied the second position and Acer third.

Notebook PC sale in home and 'Small Office and Home Office' (SOHO) segments grew by 166 per cent and made up 43 per cent of the total business. The next largest contributors were enterprise and education segments.

"Portability, rather than mobility has emerged as the 'number one' driver for the sustained growth in notebook PC shipments in India," Kapil Dev Singh, Country Manager, IDC India, said.

Given the choice of portability, flexibility and ease of use and narrowing of price-performance gap that once existed between portables and desktops, consumers are almost overwhelmingly inclined to buy notebook PCs, he said.

Further, laptop sales recorded an year-on-year growth of 104 per cent in the northern states of the country, followed by southern states at 80 per cent.

Meanwhile, the desktop PC shipments showed a growth of 10.9 per cent in the same quarter.

Cars in world

    By "car" we are referring to passenger cars, which are defined as motor vehicles with at least four wheels, used for the transport of passengers, and comprising no more than eight seats in addition to the driver's seat. Cars (or automobiles) make up approximately 87% of the total motor vehicle annual production in the world.
    The remaining 13%, not included in this statistics, is made up by light commercial vehicles and heavy trucks (motor vehicles with at least four wheels, used for the carriage of goods), buses, coaches and minibuses (comprising more than eight seats in addition to the driver's seat)

Cars produced in the world every year:

For 2009, global vehicle sales remain in the midst of a precipitous fall-off, led by sharp declines in the mature markets of the United States, Western Europe and Japan. We project total cars produced at 51,971,328.

In 2006 there were 49,886,549 passenger cars produced in the world, with an increase of 6.45% over the previous year. The increase for 2007 was more modest, and 2008 showed a decline. Analysts from various institutes had in fact pegged the year 2007 as the year which would end the 5-year cycle (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006) of record global auto sales worldwide.

Year	cars produced in the world
2009 (projection)	51,971,328
2008	52,940,559
2007	54,920,317
2006	49,886,549
2005	46,862,978
2004	44,554,268
2003	41,968,666
2002	41,358,394
2001	39,825,888
2000	41,215,653
1999	39,759,847

Which country produces most cars?

A third of all cars in the world are produced in the European Union (see chart below)

China became the world’s third-largest car market in 2006, as car sales in China soared by nearly 40% to 4.1 million units. China should become the world’s second-largest car market by 2010, as low vehicle penetration, rising incomes, greater credit availability and falling car prices lift sales past those of Japan. Furthermore, vehicle penetration in China stands at only 24 vehicles per 1,000 people, compared with 749 vehicles per 1,000 people in the mature markets of the G7.

For a breakdown of production by country in the world, see chart table below:

Country	Cars	Commercial Vehicles	Total	Total Change
Argentina	263,120	168,981	432,101	35,1%
Australia	270,000	60,900	330,900	-16,2%
Austria	248,059	26,873	274,932	8,6%
Belgium	881,929	36,127	918,056	-1,2%
Brazil	2,092,029	519,005	2,611,034	3,3%
Canada	1,389,536	1,182,756	2,572,292	-4,3%
China	5,233,132	1,955,576	7,188,708	25,9%
Czech Rep.	848,922	5,985	854,907	41,3%
Egypt	59,462	32,111	91,573	32,2%
Finland	32,417	353	32,770	51,4%
France	2,723,196	446,023	3,169,219	-10,7%
Germany	5,398,508	421,106	5,819,614	1,1%
Hungary	187,633	3,190	190,823	25,5%
India	1,473,000	546,808	2,019,808	24,2%
Indonesia	206,321	89,687	296,008	-40,1%
Iran	800,000	104,500	904,500	10,7%
Italy	892,502	319,092	1,211,594	16,7%
Japan	9,756,515	1,727,718	11,484,233	6,3%
Malaysia	377,952	125,021	502,973	-10,8%
Mexico	1,097,619	947,899	2,045,518	22,4%
Netherlands	87,332	72,122	159,454	-11,8%
Poland	632,300	82,300	714,600	14,2%
Portugal	143,478	83,847	227,325	3,7%
Romania	201,663	11,934	213,597	9,6%
Russia	1,177,918	330,440	1,508,358	11,6%
Serbia	9,832	1,350	11,182	-21,1%
Slovakia	295,391	0	295,391	35,3%
Slovenia	115,000	35,320	150,320	-15,5%
South Africa	334,482	253,237	587,719	11,9%
South Korea	3,489,136	350,966	3,840,102	3,8%
Spain	2,078,639	698,796	2,777,435	0,9%
Sweden	288,583	44,585	333,168	-1,6%
Taiwan	211,306	91,915	303,221	-32,1%
Thailand	298,819	895,607	1,296,060	15,2%
Turkey	545,682	442,098	987,780	12,4%
Ukraine	274,860	20,400	295,260	36,8%
UK	1,442,085	206,303	1,648,388	-8,6%
USA	4,366,220	6,897,766	11,263,986	-6,0%
Uzbekistan	100,000	10,000	110,000	14,8%
Supplementary	411,982	129,210	541,192
Totals	49,886,549	19,240,607	69,127,156	4,0%

Car brands:

    The statistics on world car production include the following auto-makers: Anhui, Avtovaz , Beijing, BMW, Brilliance, Byd, Chana, Changhe, Chery, China National, Chrysler, Daewoo, Daihatsu, DaimlerChrysler, Dongfeng, Faw, Fiat, Ford, Fuji, Fujian, Gaz, Geely, General Motors, Great Wall, Guangzhou, Harbin, Hino, Honda, Hyundai, Ij-Avto, Isuzu, Kamaz, Kia, Mahindra&Mahindra, MAN, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Multicar, Nanjing, Navistar, Nissan, Nissan Diesel, Paccar, Porsche, Proton, PSA, Renault, Saic, Scania, Suzuki, Tata, Toyota, Uaz, Vaz, Volkswagen, and Volvo.

      It is estimated that over 600,000,000 passenger cars travel the streets and roads of the world today.


In the United States alone, 247,421,120 "highway" registered vehicles were counted in 2005, of which136,568,083 passenger cars. (Bureau of Transportation Statistics U.S. Department of Transportation)