In 2012, overall revenue from this segment grew by 7.7%, accounting for foreign exchange losses, on a 4.2% increase in sales volume and 4.5% growth in prices.
The segment has witnessed nearly 7-8% revenue growth over the last couple of years driven equally by price and volume improvements.
We currently estimate a market share growth in laundry segment from 31.7% in 2010 to 32.6% by 2016 from gaining share from local players in China and India.
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The contract assembly segment, which produced 7% of first-quarter revenues, assembles IT systems such as workstations and servers primarily for OEMs. SNX offers cost-effective assembly services that minimize inventory risk for the customer.
However, the Electrical Products segment got hit with a 27.7% decline in sales.
There seems to be enough potential for services to constitute a bigger share of the overall revenue mix in the domestic segment from the present figure of roughly 7%.
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As the first and only company to announce availability of the next-generation TV technology, LG is prepared to ramp up quickly to take the lead in the OLED segment that is expected to grow to 7.2 million units by 2016, according to Display Search.
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Same store sales in the domestic segment decreased 5.5%, following 7% comparative store sales growth a year ago.
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The wireless segment saw operating margins tumble to 23.7% from 30.1% a year ago, as costs of sales and service soared 39% as the company absorbed the costs of launching sales of the Apple iPhone.
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It appears that this segment of capital spending is on track to be about 7.18 percent higher in 2012 than it was in 2011.
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The company noted that a 6% rise in revenues in its services business was offset by a 7% decline in revenue in the technology segment, which includes document systems and related products.
Since the 2010 Office suite is not as close to the end of its life cycle as Windows 7, and we expect the revenues from this segment to continue to grow.
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In the case of businesses, Windows PCs are at the very heart of all size organizations and the migration from Windows XP to Windows 7 continues to be an important factor driving that segment of the market forward, both now and into 2012.
Unlike the slow growth in the Windows segment, the Office productivity suite maintained its growth during the previous quarter, posting a 7% gain in revenues year-over-year.
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"When we made all our pretzels fat-free in 1993, we lost a segment of our population, " recalls Reinemund, who headed up the effort during his 7-year tenure at Frito-Lay.
Hamada notes that adjusting for currency, Avnet expects top-line sequential growth of 4.2% for the electronics marketing segment, at the low end of the normal sequential improvement in the 4%-7% range.
Even with an influx of new models coming for 2014 and 2015, including revised versions of the Chevrolet Impala and Volkswagen Phaeton and the all-new Chevrolet SS and Kia Cadenza, Polk advisor Tom Libby predicts the segment will account for just 3.2% of industry sales this year and 2.7% in 2015.
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Nokia sales declined during the quarter, and with only 7.2 million of its smartphones filling customers' hands, its ranking in this segment plummeted from third to seventh (although Gartner expects sales of the new Lumia devices should soften the fall in Q4).
Capital expenditure in the first six months was 14 trillion won, with 9.7 trillion won invested in the Semiconductor Business and 2.6 trillion won in the Display Panel segment.
The premium car segment in China is forecasted to surpass that of the United States by 2020, growing to about 2.7 million sales, or 9 percent of the Chinese new car market, by the end of the decade.
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