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To: freeus who wrote (118608)	4/19/1999 12:27:00 AM
From: TechMkt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Interesting. Fez _______________________ Japan's PC Sales Gained 62% on Year in Week Ended April 4 Tokyo, April 19 (Bloomberg) -- Personal computer sales at large electronics stores in Japan gained 62 percent in the week ended April 4 from the same period a year earlier, the technology weekly Nikkei Market Access reported. The value of PCs sold rose 66 percent, benefiting Japan's largest PC makers NEC Corp., Fujitsu Ltd., IBM Japan Ltd., Toshiba Corp. and others, said Nikkei MA, which tracks sales at about 2,000 electrical stores nationwide. Nikkei MA monitors sales at stores run by about 55 electrical retailers. The figures cover approximately 25 percent of Japan's over-the-counter PC sales, and about 10 percent of the total market. Private research company IDC Japan Ltd. forecasts that Japan's domestic shipments of personal computers will rise 10 percent in 1999, the first gain in three years, as a surge in sales to individual users offsets stifled corporate demand. Unit sales in the week ended April 4 fell 8.9 percent from the previous week, the first decline in six weeks, reflecting the end of PC sales campaigns before the start of the business and academic year on April 1. The value of those sales also declined 8 percent from the previous week. Sales of PCs to individual customers surged following the release of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows98 last July, and Apple Computer Inc.'s iMac computer last August. The average price of PCs sold at electrical stores in the week edged marginally higher to 236,130 yen ($2,001), from 233,775 yen the previous week. By model, notebook computers led the price increase, as stores finished selling off inventory from fiscal year-end sales. The following table gives Nikkei MA's figures for the percentage changes for PC sales from the previous week and from the same week a year earlier. Japan's PC sales for the week ended April 4 *********************************************************** Model From Prev. Week Y-o-Y ********************************************************** Desktops (by Volume) -16.2% +59.0% (by Value) -16.7% +53.4% Notebooks (by Volume) -1.6% +65.2% (by Value) -1.0% +75.6% All PCs (by Volume) -8.9% +62.3% (by Value) -8.0% +65.8% ************************************************************ Apr/18/1999 21:07