IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly PC tracker, published May 1, 2004, showed HP ahead in the Middle East for the first quarter of calendar year 2004. HP pulled in a 16.8 percent marketshare in the Middle East for the combined desktop and mobile range, with the next competitor landing a 6.8 percent marketshare.
HP’s share of the mobile market was 29.7 percent followed by the runner-up landing a 19.6 percent marketshare. For the Middle East region, in the desktop product space, HP showed year-on-year growth of 33.8 percent whereas HP’s mobile product portfolio range shot up by 43.1 percent compared to Q1 of last year.
“The IDC results speak for themselves. HP continues to dominate the PC and mobile market in the commercial and consumer space in the Middle East, despite the dynamic competitive arena. As our PC assembly plant operations in the Kingdom are racking up orders, we expect more orders to be catered for locally, in the Arab world,” said Bradley Hopkins, newly relocated GM, Personal Systems Group, HP Middle East.
“The education sector is key for us and we have recently signed on excellent wins in this sector in Egypt, UAE and Lebanon. As the Middle East has a primarily young population, HP has a duty to implement avant-garde technology solutions into education facilities thus ensuring that Arab youth stay ahead of their peers,” he added.
