India PC market rises 6.2pc in Q1****

MUMBAI, (Business Standard): The overall personal computer (including desktop and mobile PC) market in India totalled nearly 2.6 million units in the first quarter of 2011, a 6.2 per cent increase over the first quarter of 2010, said research firm Gartner. "This growth was primarily driven by the mobile PC market which grew 23 per cent in the first quarter of 2011," said Vishal Tripathi, principal research analyst at Gartner. All the major multinational PC vendors experienced double-digit growth in mobile PC shipments in the first quarter of 2011. Multinational brands contributed more than half of the total PC shipments in the first quarter of 2011 with shipments from Acer, Dell, HP and Lenovo, the top four vendors, representing 50.4 per cent of total shipments in the first quarter of 2011. Local vendor HCL accounted for 7.1 per cent of PC shipments in the first quarter of 2011. "There was a slump in consumer demand in the first quarter, so the market did not grow as expected. Enterprise and small and midsize business (SMB) buying helped the market to achieve growth in the quarter. Government buying also contributed, as it was the last quarter of the financial year," said Tripathi. PC maker Dell led the market share with for the first quarter with 16.7 per cent. Followed by HP with 12.1 per cent. Acer and Lenovo were at third and fourth position with 11.9 per cent and 9.7 per cent respectively.