LG Electronics Inc, the world's second-biggest TV brand, expects LCD TV sales to jump nearly 50 percent next year as demand from emerging countries continues to grow robustly, a top executive said.
South Korea-based LG, which competes with home rival Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Japan's Sony Corp, expects to sell around 17 million liquid crystal display (LCD) TVs this year and 25 million in 2010, said Simon Kang, chief executive for LG's home entertainment unit.
LG sold 10.5 million LCD TVs in 2008. "The flat-screen TV market will continue to grow in the second half although it will probably see the growth rate slowing" from the first half, Kang told a news conference. His comments, made in Seoul ahead of the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, were embargoed until Sunday. "I am quite confident for the Christmas season and that some kind of momentum will be maintained next year," Kang later told Reuters in an interview on the sideline of the IFA show. The market for liquid crystal display (LCD) TVs has seen stronger-than-expected growth this year despite the global downturn and LG could have posted a sharper increase in 2009 sales if LCD panel supply was not tight, he said.
LG accounted for 11.8 percent of world-wide LCD TV shipments in April-June, tailing Samsung with a 18.8 percent market share but ahead of No 3 Sony with 10.7 percent.
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