Acer company already stated about its intentions to become the most important producer of computers in the world, and it consecutively moves to this purpose, crowding competitors on the regional markets. According to the analytical agency Gartner in the fourth quarter acer company occupied the first place on the market of Western Europe. In the portion of acer production, it was up to 23.1% all sold in the past the block computers in this region, in the portion of HP was only 21.3%.
Three largest regional markets in Europe - this Great Britain, France and Germany. Acer was able in the fourth quarter 2009 to increase the sales volumes to 33.9%. In Great Britain acer sales volumes grew by 33.2%, in France - to 16%, in Germany the company increased the deliveries volumes by more than 100%. We should recognize that the successes Of acer are caused by the high popularity of mobile computers - in Great Britain, for example, in their portion it was 70% of sold computers. In France about 20% of sold mobile computers related to the netbook class.
In all for the fourth quarter 2009 in Western Europe were sold 20.2 ml personal computers, which by 4% is higher than the indices of the analogous period last year. For the first time in 2009 an increase in the computer market in the region was observed in the fourth quarter. However, this is only characteristic for the consumer segment - according to the estimations of analysts, demand for computers in the corporate segment will appear only in 2010. The decisive role in this process will play the passage on Windows 7, which will begin for corporate users not earlier than the second half-year.