Indian tablet market witnessed 424 pc growth in 2012-13: MAIT

NEW DELHI, INDIA: MAIT, the apex body representing India's IT hardware, training and R&D services sectors, today announced the findings of its Industry Performance Review for the financial year 2012-13.

The annual MAIT Industry Performance Review - ITOPs, conducted by India's leading market research firm IMRB International, is a survey of the IT hardware sector's efforts to manage the business environment, gauge the market potential and consumer trends.

Some salient findings of the 2012-13 Study are given below.

The Tablet Market:

Tablet PC witnessed a massive growth figure of 424 percent. The sales for 2012-13 stood at 1.9 million units as against 0.36 million units in 2011-12.

The Servers Market:

During the year 2012-13, server sales registered a decline of 2 percent over the last financial year and it stood at 89,075 units in the current year.

The Peripherals Market:

Overall printer sales continued to decline albeit marginallyat a rate of 1 percent during 2012-13 over the last fiscal year. The sales at 2012-13 stood at 2.93 million (29.3 lakh) units.

Among printers, Laserjet printer is the only segment where sales grew positively and the growth rate was around 14 percent over last fiscal year. The consumption went to 1.57 million units from 1.38 million (13.8 lakh) units.

Inkjet printer sales continued its downward spiral with a negative growth of 9 percent over last year.

The sales figure stood at 10.83 million (108.3 lakh)owing to the decline of HH segment at 11 percent over last year. The establishment segments fell by 2 percent.

Dot-matrix printer sales took a free fall as it posted a negative growth of 31 percent over last year. The sales figures cut short to 0.27 million (2.7 lakh) units in 2012-13 from 0.39 million (3.9 lakh) units in 2011-12.The UPS market sold at 2.53 million (25.3 lakh), at a decline of 1 percent. The decelerated growth in establishment segment was the main reason as it slipped at 16 percent over last year. The HH segment grew by 4 percent in the same period.

The Internet Entities:

The number of active Internet entities posted 17.6 million in March 2013, growth of 11 percent over March 2012.

Internet penetration in the 22 cities was 65 percent among businesses and 35 percent among households.

Dial up contributed around 38 percent of the total internet connections in establishments as broadband contribution stood at 22 percent. The other mode of connections such as Leased lines and Data card contribution stood at 20 percent and 17 percent respectively.