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To: Dorine Essey who wrote (151717)	1/21/2000 12:07:00 PM
From: calgal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Hi Dorine: Europe 99 PC sales up 17 pct, Compaq leads marketwatch.newsalert.com TABLE-Europe 99 PC sales up 17 pct, Compaq leads Reuters Story - January 21, 2000 11:05 LONDON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Market researcher Context on Friday reported European personal computer unit sales for the fourth quarter of 1999: Units Q4 99 Share Pct chng Total Europe 9,835,766 100 +10.7 Top 5 vendors 4,777,458 48.6 +9.5 Compaq -Digital (estimate) 1,537,734 15.6 +4.0 Fujitsu Siemens * 1,066,901 10.8 +19.5 Dell 750,734 7.6 +16.3 IBM 743,551 7.6 -10.6 NEC CI 678,303 6.9 +32.3 Hewlett-Packard 674,431 6.9 +36.5 Apple 381,560 3.9 +52.4 Acer 328,322 3.3 +25.3 Toshiba 278,082 2.8 +12.7 Vobis (estimate) 218,682 2.2 -17.4 Full Year 1999 Total Europe 29,303,829 100 +16.8 Top 5 vendors 15,738,942 53.7 +23.9 Compaq-Digital (estimate) 5,000,868 17.1 +16.1 Fujitsu-Siemens* 3,554,076 12.1 +33.3 Dell 2,690,940 9.2 +35.8 IBM 2,482,997 8.5 +15.8 Hewlett-Packard 2,010,061 6.9 +25.6 NEC CI 1,581,979 5.4 +32.3 Toshiba 1,000,719 3.4 +9.3 Acer 929,588 3.2 +38.0 Apple 845,707 2.9 +27.4 Vobis (estimate) 615,775 2.1 -13.9 NOTE - * Consolidated units and year-on-year growth. Context said the 11 percent year-on-year growth rate in the fourth quarter, slower than 18.5 percent year-on-year rate from the third quarter, resulted from a higher-than-expected slowdown in small business PC sales. PC sales to corporates continued flat, but a spending spree by small businesses in the third quarter slowed towards year-end, it said in a statement. Copyright 2000 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon.