http://tinyurl.com/2244w4
Above is sales report from early January.
As to one of the reasons why...
Canon loses market share in January due to previous strong performance:
Canon lost a
little market share at the beginning of 2007, but this was due to its strong
showing during the
year-end shopping season, meaning that it did not have to dispose of
inventories. The top of
the sales rankings are filled with old models from other manufacturers that
have been
discounted to clear inventories. In our view, this shows how successful
Canon was at the end
of 2006.
A different report predicts Canon will regain market share, excerpt below.
On the basis of the new CIPA forecast, Canon has effectively indicated that
it intends to gain significant share in DSLRs back to >50%. As such, it is
likely to threaten rivals such as
Nikon, the No. 2 player with a 3035% share.
Tom C.
From: Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: bringing up an item I posted earlier
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 18:52:10 -0500
Old numbers. What about 2006? Pentax current share of the Japan
market is 10%. Canon has dropped to 35%.
Paul
On Feb 1, 2007, at 5:30 PM, Digital Image Studio wrote:
> On 02/02/07, Micah Kleit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> One of the messages that didn't get on the list was a response to a
>> question about Pentax's business. I was wondering about Pentax's
>> market share outside of the US; I forgot where I saw it (it may have
>> been Pentaxlife.com), but Pentax has a 10% share of the camera market
>> in its home market, which seems to be pretty good given their
>> competitors.
>
> As of March 2006 digital cameras accounted for 45.3% of Pentax sales,
> and at that point Pentax was at the bottom of the markets share
> ratings with less than 3% of the worldwide market for digital cameras.
> DSLR global market shares for CY2005 put Pentax at 4.7%, Canon 53.3%
> and Nikon at 28.3%. Thing are only going to get tougher in the DSLR
> market, sales will peak in 2008 and start tailing off in 2009 and
> prices will start making competition for market share aggressive, so
> anyone on thin margins will suffer badly. Just my opinion of course
> ;-)
>
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