CE giants chase internet sales

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The top 50 consumer electronics retailers in the US posted total sales of $64.3 bilion in 1998, up by 10.58% from $58.1 billion in 1997. An increasing percentage of the total sales came from Internet sales. Web sales represented around 1% of total overall retail sales, particularly from books, clothing, recorded music, filmed entertainment and consumer electronics. The market share of Web sales is projected to leap to 9% by the year 2001.

Market information - general, Radio, TV, Music, Electronics Stores

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For SOHO, small is better

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Manufacturers of small business equipment have launched their latest product lines for the small office/home office market. Sharp Electronics is offering its U-300 and UX-305 plain-paper fax machines, while Hewlett- Packard has introduced its OfficeJet T45 and T65 full-color faxing, printing and coying machines. Other new products areCanon's multifunction Multipass C365, Brother's MP-21C and MP-21Cdx color ink-jet printers, DocuPort's four-function office peripheral and C Technologies' C Pen 200.

Product introduction, Other Computer Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing, Computer Auxiliary Eqp NEC, Computer peripherals

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