New figures from research firm Gartner today indicate that PC manufacturer Lenovo (HKG:0992) has taken over the top spot in India, as the PC market as a whole grew 6.6 percent in that country in the first quarter over the year before [1].
Lenovo jumped to take 14.9 percent of the market for Q1 2012, way up from the 9.7 percent that it held in the same period one year before (see chart below). The report notes that consumer buying was actually down three percent on the previous quarter, and Lenovo’s leap was largely due to a large contract with the Tamil Nadu government for 912,000 laptops, which was won by Lenovo, HCL, and Acer.
Following Lenovo in second spot was Dell, which dropped from the top position the year before. It now holds 14.0 percent of the market, just ahead of HP which has 13.7. Acer and HCL round out the top five with 11.8 and 5.8 percent respectively.
Of course HP is still the global leader in PC shipments, but Lenovo is expected to steal that crown during the second or third quarter of this year. HP, as you have likely heard by now, is planning to cut 27,000 jobs by 2014 in an effort to turn around the company.
*Disclosure: I’m a former HP employee (see our ethics policy), as well as a former Thinkpad owner.
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These figures are more or less consistent with IDC’s report ten days ago. ↩
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