What is the product line distribution of each of the top 7-8 PC makers?
e.g.
what are different lines of products for Dell and how much of their
business comes from each line (in percentage or unit shipments)?

I used data from IDC (www.idc.com) to ascertain which companies were
the largest PC sellers. Then I pulled industry-segment data from their
quarterly news releases or SEC filings at the following Web sites:

http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q206data_sum.pdf

http://us.acer.com/acereuro/wr-resource/2087066224/upload/E0Entity11/1/Acer%20Inc.%20Q1%202006%20financial%20results.release.pdf

http://investor.gateway.com/edgar.cfm

http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/corporate/sec/q1fy07fs.pdf

http://www.fujitsu.com/downloads/IR/finance/2005Full/pdf/1-11.pdf

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/investor/financials/quarters/2006/q2.html#seg

http://www.lenovo.com/news/us//en/2006/05/results.html

http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/ir/en/finance/segment.htm

As far as I can tell, Acer generates all of its revenue from PCs. The
company does not break down its revenue, and based on a reading of the
quarterly finding, any business other than PCs does not contribute
much. The numbers for Acer and the other companies can be found at
http://www.wecanwrite.com/PC%20Makers.xls.

I hope this helps,

V


Search strategy: None, I knew where to find the information.

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Request for Answer Clarification by g8question4u-ga on 24 Jun 2006 15:47 PDT

I was looking for breakdown by product line - e.g. for dell inspiron
sales, latitude sales etc. Breakdown by PCs/laptops is easy. sorry, i
didn;t get my answer.

I did not get the answer I was looking for, clearly mentioned that I
needed the data product lines - see clarification requested. Please
refund.

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