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2016-08-31 ArtNo.45847
◆Signs of a revival in investments?
 【New Delhi】While the capital goods segment in the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) contracted 18 per cent in the first quarter of the current financial year, new data from the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) suggest that the investment climate in the country may be on the cusp of improving. According to DIPP data, complied by CARE India, there has been 18.7 per cent increase in investment proposals in the first half of 2016 (January to June) over the previous year. In value terms though, the increase is a marginal 1.3 per cent. Taken together, the employment generation prospects of these proposals represent a 37 per cent increase over the corresponding period in the last year. The proposals include those filed under IEM (Industrial Entrepreneur Memorandum), LOI (Letter of intent) and DIL (Direct Industrial Licensing). ○Mobile handset makers set for ‘record-breaking’ September quarter  【New Delhi】Indian handset makers are set for a bumper September quarter after a sluggish first six months, as consumers would have more money to spend, helped by a good monsoon and a raise in pay scales of central government staff. Cybermedia Research expects "record-breaking" performance for the third quarter of the calendar with shipments of 75 million units, a first for the industry that recorded "decent growth" in the quarter ended June. For the quarter ended June 2016, Samsung, Micromax and Intex led the market in feature phones and smartphones, as both segments saw an uptrend after a "disappointing" start to the year. A total of 65.9 million handsets were shipped during the period. Smartphones grew by 19.5% onquarter to 28.7 million units while feature phones outdid smartphone growth as its shipments rose by 27.7%, to 37.3 million units. Samsung, Micromax, Intex, Karbonn and Lyf comprise the top five smartphone players with 29.7%, 14.8%, 7.7%, 6.6% and 5.3%, respectively. ○PC shipment grew 7.2% in Q2 2016, HP leads: IDC  【New Delhi】The overall PC shipment for the second quarter of 2016 stood at 2.14 million units - implying a quarter-on-quarter growth of 7.2 per cent over the first quarter and year-on-year decline of 2.2 per cent over Q2 2015, market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) said on the 24th of August. HP Inc reclaimed its top spot with overall PC market share of 28.4 per cent in the Indian PC market. Dell captured the second spot with a market share of 22.2 per cent while Lenovo stood third with 16.1 per cent of the overall PC market share in the quarter. The overall consumer PC market recorded 1.05 million units, a quarter-on-quarter growth of 14.5 per cent over Q1 2016. The overall commercial PC market recorded 1.09 million unit shipments in Q2 2016, a 1.1 per cent quarter-on-quarter increase against Q1 2016. 【News source】 Hot potato: July WPI inflation at 2-year high Signs of a revival in investments? Mobile handset makers set for ‘record-breaking’ September quarter PC shipment grew 7.2% in Q2 2016, HP leads: IDC PC sales increase 7.2%, says IDC PC sales increase 7.2%, says IDC HP reclaims top spot in domestic PC market ○One world： The aim of SEAnews ◆Recruitment of Ad-SEAnews CanvassersYour Comments / UnsubscribeSEAnews MessengerSEAnewsFacebookSEAnewsGoogleSEAnews eBookstoreSEAnews eBookstore(GoogleJ)SEAnews world circulation |
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