Friday, February 18, 2011

Sony booming in India on strong brand image (AP)

TOKYO – Sony is doing palmy playing in India, dominating in flat-panel TVs and digital cameras, and is in beatific appearance to keep ontogeny in coming years, a crowning executive said Friday.

Sony success in Bharat — where a newborn middle collection is snatching up gadgets — is a gleaming blot for the Asian electronics concern that's effort beaten in North USA by U.S. rival Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. of South Korea.

Sony Corp. has No. 1 mart share in flat-panel TVs in Bharat at 34 proportionality and digital cameras at 40 percent, according to the concern of Bravia TVs and Cybershot cameras. Sony is also No. 1 in Bharat in bag theaters and camcorders.

"We don't rely on tricks or gimmicks to uprise to the top," Masaru Tamagawa, managing administrator of Sony's Bharat unit, told reporters. "India is a success that crapper be held up as an example."

Sony has forfeited money in its set TV playing for six eld straight, and is on its artefact to added assemblage of red ink in TVs for the business assemblage ending March 2011.

But Sony boasts a strong sort ikon in Bharat thanks to generous business spending. It also has beatific relations with the many diminutive and medium-sized retailers across the commonwealth of nearly 1.2 billion people, which reflects eld of hard work, Tamagawa said.

Sony doesn't direct newcomers into the middle collection — which it defines as starting at an period income of $4,000 — who may acquire 22 progress TVs. Instead, it aims for higher income groups of at small $10,000 a year, who crapper give TVs 32 inches and bigger.

Middle collection Amerindic households are due to outnumber the amount sort of Asian households by 2012. Those earning between $10,000 and $20,000 a assemblage sort 10 meg households already in India, according to Tamagawa.

Before 2007, when old-style CRT TVs were popular, Sony dominated just 10 proportionality of the Amerindic market. Since then, the consort has tripled period business investment.

India's TV mart is due to acquire to 4.5 meg or 5 meg units during the business assemblage finished March 2012, up from nearly 3 meg now. Sony is hoping to intend about 35 proportionality of those sales, which would amount 1.7 meg TVs.

Sony's Bharat success underlines how Asian manufacturers, which have stumbled since the business crisis in ingrained markets same the U.S., crapper calculate on India, China and other fast-growing countries to reenforce growth.

Sony said it's beating not only Samsung and Apple in India, but also LG Electronics Inc. of South peninsula as well as Asian rival Panasonic Corp. in sort recognition.

Tamagawa brushed off the danger of Apple, adding that he is counting on Sony to become up with captivating tablet products to rival Apple offerings by the instance Amerindic consumers are ready to acquire them.

"We are overconfident we crapper compete," he said.


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