Context has become one of the first analysts to state that the UK PC market seems to be over the worst of the economic downturn. In the past month, market research firm Gartner enhanced its global sales forecast for 2009 in light of the more than expected shipments in China, US and the promising markets. However, it also warned that Western Europe lagged this recovery.
The distributor sales information collected by Context shows that PCs, x86 workstations and servers worth £250m were sold from June to the end of August in the UK. On the other hand, unit shipments rose to 685,000 up by 4.4%.
Senior partner at context, Jeremy Davies said MicroScope have bottomed out in the UK. Also, the summer months were not bad at all as the channel expected. Although it was a bumpy ride, it was not a meltdown.
Netbooks and notebooks obviously underpinned the market’s growth, rising 20.3%, 15.9% and 9.3% respectively in June, August and July whereas the desktop, workstation and server sales declined throughout all three months.
Davis also said that the numbers taken from Global Technology Distribution Council distributors indicate that the market is not getting worse but the resellers cannot afford to get complacent as sales might flat line for the remaining year.
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