Aug
15

Sony Hits Top Spot In LCD TV Market

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Good news for shoppers - the fight for the top position in the LCD TV market is fiercer than ever.

Sony has been blitzing the market with advertising for its Bravia range of LCD TVs. The big campaign has paid off because Sony’s LCD TV revenue for the first 3 months of 2006 grew to 15 percent of the market, pushing Samsung with 13.9 percent into 2nd place and Sharp with 12.7 percent into 3rd. Philips was just behind Sharp with 11.9 percent.

Most impressively sales revenue for these 3 months was five-times what it sold during the same period just a year ago and it sold 3.5 times as many TVs. (Note that Sony is still working to get its TV division back to overall profitability after it made a slow start in the LCD TV market).

Samsung made good progress with sales of its TV panels growing by 30 percent. The move to larger TVs was demonstrated by sales of 40-inch and larger screens growing by 90 percent over the previous 3 months.

Sharp also continues to do well. Its target is to sell 6 million LCD TVs worldwide during its 2006 financial year, with the goal of winning 30 percent market share for 40-inch TVs during the U.S. Christmas shopping season.

Sharp claims to have sold nearly 1.13 million LCD TVs worldwide during the 3 months April-June 2006. This is an increase of 50 percent from 755,000 LCD TVs it sold during the same period in 2005.

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Jul
20

Latest LCD TV Market Share Figures

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The latest LCD TV market share figures quoted by iSuppli for Q1 2006 show LG Philips leading the way with 22.3% share and 2,353,000 TVs shipped.

LG Philips is the joint venture between LG and Philips.

Note that these figures are always a bit “rubbery” and will vary from market researcher to another.

The top 6 manufacturerers were as follows.

#1 LG Philips 22.3% share and 2,353,000 TVs shipped

#2 Samsung 20% share and 2,115,000 TVs shipped

#3 CMO (Chi Moi) 18.7% share and 1,979,000 TVs shipped

#4 AU Optronics 16.8% share and 1,493,000 TVs shipped

#5 Sharp 13.9% share and 1,505,000 TVs shipped

#6 Quanta 3.7% share and 360,000 TVs shipped

Sharp was previously reported as the #1 manufacturer for the whole of 2005 so clearly the others have accelerated their shipments in the later part of 2005 and early 2006 to overtake Sharp.

Also, of the top 6, three are suppliers to other LCD TV vendors. Many of these vendors will be the “value brands” who brand engineer their LCD TVs and release them under their own brand name.

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