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Dell's growth overtakes market growth
By siliconindia
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Saturday, 07 June 2008, 18:24 IST
Texas: As per the IDC's Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker, Dell's focused execution enabled the company to grow worldwide PC unit shipments in the calendar first quarter of 2008 more than 1.4 times faster than the overall market growth rate.
As per the report, Dell recorded a 21.3 percent growth in worldwide PC shipments in the quarter, compared to 14.9 percent growth for the industry.
In major segments, Dell regained or maintained leadership in Education, for the 32nd consecutive quarter; Government, for the 30th consecutive quarter; Very Large Business, for the 37th consecutive quarter; Large Business, for the 33rd consecutive quarter; and, Regained leadership in Medium Business in 1Q08.
In the United States the company grew by 15.6 percent more than three times faster than market growth of 4.6 percent and gained or maintained leadership in all commercial categories including education, Government, Very Large business, Large Business, Medium and Small Business, and gained leadership in Small Office in 1Q08.
In notebooks, another of Dell�s strategic priorities, the company grew commercial unit shipments 35 percent year on year, gaining 1.1 points of share worldwide from Q4 2007 to Q1 2008, according to IDC.
Dell's Global Consumer business grew units at more than two times the industry rate year on year and increased it share in the United States by almost 6 percentage points from a year ago to 22.1 percent, according to IDC. Worldwide, Dell gained 1.2 points of share year on year in the first calendar quarter.
Dell grew units at almost triple the industry growth rate according to IDC in BRIC countries � Brazil, Russia, India and China.
