PC sales to increase 50% in Agra in 6 months
Vishal Sharma
New Delhi/ Agra. After a three-month slump, the computer trade in Agra and nearby towns is finally showing signs of revival, with sales picking up. Branded personal computer (PC) companies like Intel, HCL, Compaq, Lenovo. have launched promotional packages to cash in on this boost in the PC market in Agra region.
According to the estimates, the PC market was expected to grow by more than 50 per cent in the Agra region during the current month and it can maintain a steady growth rate in the coming 6-8 months, peaking at over 150 per cent of the total PC sales in the months of May and June.
City Computers Pvt Ltd Director Parvinder Basu said the PC market grew at 70-100 per cent each year and this year too it was expected that in the next six months the Agra market alone would place a demand for at least 3,000 PCs and laptops.
Even from the neighbouring cities of Mathura, Aligarh, Firozabad, etc demand for another 1,000 PCs was expected.
He said in a small-town market like Agra, usually the ratio between branded and assembled PCs was 50:50, but recently the demand for branded computers had shot up.
But while Agra PC dealers are pleased about the prospective growth in the PC market in the next six months, their counterparts in Mathura are not so happy.
According to Nitin Bhatia of Wincraft Technologies, educational institutes, corporate, retail and banking segment were among the major buyers of computers in this town, which was much closer to Delhi than Agra and as a result, the PC assemblers in Mathura faced tougher competition from the cheaper assembled PCs available in Delhi.
Besides, he said there was a complete absence of service centres of reputed PC peripherals manufacturers like Samsung, LG, Canon, HP in Mathura.
Accessories under warranty period had to be sent to the authorised service centres in Agra or Aligarh. Thus, increasing the overall operational costs for the PC sellers here.
According to the estimates, the PC market was expected to grow by more than 50 per cent in the Agra region during the current month and it can maintain a steady growth rate in the coming 6-8 months, peaking at over 150 per cent of the total PC sales in the months of May and June.
City Computers Pvt Ltd Director Parvinder Basu said the PC market grew at 70-100 per cent each year and this year too it was expected that in the next six months the Agra market alone would place a demand for at least 3,000 PCs and laptops.
Even from the neighbouring cities of Mathura, Aligarh, Firozabad, etc demand for another 1,000 PCs was expected.
He said in a small-town market like Agra, usually the ratio between branded and assembled PCs was 50:50, but recently the demand for branded computers had shot up.
But while Agra PC dealers are pleased about the prospective growth in the PC market in the next six months, their counterparts in Mathura are not so happy.
According to Nitin Bhatia of Wincraft Technologies, educational institutes, corporate, retail and banking segment were among the major buyers of computers in this town, which was much closer to Delhi than Agra and as a result, the PC assemblers in Mathura faced tougher competition from the cheaper assembled PCs available in Delhi.
Besides, he said there was a complete absence of service centres of reputed PC peripherals manufacturers like Samsung, LG, Canon, HP in Mathura.
Accessories under warranty period had to be sent to the authorised service centres in Agra or Aligarh. Thus, increasing the overall operational costs for the PC sellers here.
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