wsj:European PC Sales Continue to Surge;
Market Grew 19.5% in Second Quarter
By MATTHEW ROSE
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
LONDON -- Europe continues to be the main engine of growth for the
personal-computer industry, according to second-quarter figures from
Dataquest, a market-research unit of U.S.-based Gartner Group......
...... Compaq Gains Market Share Compaq, which recorded its
highest-ever European market share of 15.5%, said the latest data
misleadingly counts the company's throttled-back sales to its
distributors, rather than their shipments to end customers.
Compaq pared shipments by a month's worth of sales in the second
quarter to reduce inventory, but estimated that European "sales
out" to end-users were actually up 40% from the year-earlier period,
compared with 26% gross unit sales to distributors. Including that
difference, "we increased our market share considerably," said
Andreas Barth, general manager of Compaq in Europe......
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