Dell seen back to strong growth
Dell Inc returned to double-digit percentage growth in global PC shipments in the fourth quarter as its new retail sales strategy began to pay off, while rival Hewlett-Packard Co’s growth slowed, technology researcher IDC said on Wednesday.
Dell shipped 17.1 percent more PCs in the quarter than in the year-earlier period, for a total of 11.3 million units and 14.6 percent of the global PC market, IDC said in its quarterly PC market-share survey. But Dell, based in Round Rock, Texas, remained in the No. 2 market-share spot. A year ago Dell’s worldwide shipments shrank 8.4 percent, according to IDC. In the United States, Dell sold 15.2 percent more PCs than a year earlier, well ahead of overall U.S. market growth of 8.8 percent and faster than HP’s 9.8 percent.
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