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Q: GPS Market ( Answered 5 out of 5 stars,   1 Comment )
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Subject: GPS Market
Category: Sports and Recreation > Outdoors
Asked by: washout-ga
List Price: $50.00
Posted: 26 Feb 2005 12:44 PST
Expires: 28 Mar 2005 12:44 PST
Question ID: 481415
Multiple Questions - How many recreational (not flying or marine) GPS
Units were sold (quantity not revenue) for the last three years? How
fast is the GPS market expected to grow? What is the average selling
price for these units? Any other statistics for this market would be helpful
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Subject: Re: GPS Market
Answered By: belindalevez-ga on 28 Feb 2005 09:11 PST
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
<Sales of recreational GPS units.

According to Alan A. Varghese, senior director of semiconductor
research at ABI Research in Oyster Bay, N.Y. shipments of recreational
GPS devices were as follows:
2004 ? 6.55 million (estimated, based on growth of 31%).
2003 ? 5 million
2002 ? 3.2 million

Shipments are predicted to grow by 31 percent a year until 2009.

Costs range from $130 to $1,300.

(Source: Recreational Sports sees more use of GPS. By Beth Healy. NY
Times. Gismos For Geeks.)
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:osVnGB_TuOoJ:www.gizmosforgeeks.com/index.php/articles/128+gps+%22million+recreational%22&hl=en


Portable navigation devices - US sales
300,000 units in 2003
550,000 units in 2004.
Forecast to reach 684,000 in 2005.
Average unit price - $261.
(Source: New camera phones and GPS phones for growing markets. Asian
sources. February 22, 2005.)
http://www.asia.manufacturers.globalsources.com/gsol/I/Video-telephone/a/9000000060410.htm

The average sales price of a Garmin device was $331 in 2004 but
dropped to $308 in the fourth quarter. (Source: Sales in 4th quarter a
record for Garmin. By David Hayes. The Kansas City Star. Feb 10,
2005.)
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/business/10859444.htm?1c

In 2000, GPS had more than 1.5 million users. Its economic impact was
estimated at $6.2 billion. By 2010, its economic value is expected to
exceed $50 billion. (Source: University of Washington Olympic Natural
Resources Center.)
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:gQ9UcAh4yRgJ:www.onrc.washington.edu/education/GPS%40Home.pdf++%22recreational+gps%22+million&hl=en


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Industry reports

A report from ABI Research, ?Satellite Positioning Systems and
Devices.?shows that recreational use of GPS is on the increase. The
report costs $5,000.
http://www.abiresearch.com/products/market_research/Satellite_Positioning_Systems_and_Devices



Consumer demand for location based services. Published November 2004.
This report is available from Global Information Inc. Price $2495.00.
http://www.gii.co.jp/english/cg25040_consumer_demand.html

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Market leader.
Garmin has 70% of the recreational handheld GPS market aimed at hikers
and hunters. In 2003 Garmin sold more than 2 million units, up half a
million from 2002. (Source: Garmin has made it big in GPS, in part by
building its own products. If ?insourcing? works for Garmin, maybe it
could work for your company. By Arik Kesseldahl. Electronic Buyers
News. 28/12/2004. Open Outsource.)
http://www.openoutsource.com/resource-dated15587-Pinpoint%20Production.phtml>



<Search strategy:>

<gps "million recreational">
<://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=gps+%22million+recreational%22>

<"gps sales" "million units">
<://www.google.com/search?q=+%22gps+sales%22+%22million+units%22&hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-31,GGLD:en&start=10&sa=N>


<Hope this helps.>
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Comments  
Subject: Re: GPS Market
From: foundit-ga on 09 Mar 2005 06:57 PST
 
Hi, washout-ga 

If you are interested in what is happing in the SA market contact
these chaps, www.commercialmarine.co.za they sell and distribute a
rang of different (not only marine) GPS's and brand like GARMIN,
MAGELLAN, FURUNO and NAVMAN
From hand-helds to Fishfinders they have it all Electronics.


Cheers

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