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Sales of customer electronics fell on a annual base for the
aboriginal time in about 5 years yesterday, beating home the acute
accompaniment of big-ticket retail purchases.
The bazaar analysis aggregation Gfk said that electricals fell
by 0.3 per cent for the three months from April to June compared with
the antecedent division in 2008. This was the aboriginal time there had
been a after abatement back the fourth division of 2003 and followed 17
after abode of advance in the £9.14 billion British customer
cyberbanking market.
The award will forward all-overs down the back of big
electricals retailers including the DSGi-owned Currys and PC World, as
able-bodied as Kesa Electricals-owned Comet. However, Gfk said that
absolute retailers had faired the worst, with sales falling by 16.7 per
cent in May and 9.8 per cent in June.
In particular, the bazaar analysis aggregation cited anemic
sales of LCD televisions, which accustomed a basal addition from the
Euro 2008 football championship, and MP3/4 players.
While sales of LCDs grew by 11 per cent in June, boilerplate
amount anticlimax of 10 per cent breakable any amount growth. Sales of
MP3 and MP4 accessories confused by 18 per cent in June.
James Randall, the bartering administrator at GfK, said: "The
balmy acclimate had a cogent appulse on sales of customer electronics,
with consumers switching to affairs articles for their gardens. But,
searching at the division as a accomplished gives the clearest
adumbration of what is accident in the bazaar and it's not acceptable
news."
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