The Public Display market in EMEA dropped back by 8.5% compared to Q1, although it was up 11.9% on an annual basis, according to Meko’s DisplayCast PD service.
“Samsung in Germany was the biggest factor”, said Bob Raikes, principal analyst at Meko. “Samsung did really well in Q1, but fell back in Q2. Samsung is very dominant in the market, so any significant drop back in its sales can have a market impact. Over the first half of 2015, the market grew”.
Most of the market is concentrated in Western Europe and Eastern Europe and MEA are both very flat because of the macroeconomic and political issues in those regions. Samsung remains in top position, with a very dominant market share. LG edged past NEC and Philips rounds out the top four brands.
“Although there has been a lot of hype about UltraHD, the numbers of sets being sold, while growing, is still very small, at around half of one percent of the market”, Raikes continued. “At the moment, there are too many issues for this application to rapidly adopt UltraHD, although the future trend will depend on the actions of the panel makers”.
“We also published our first data for the Interactive Meeting Display market (touch LFDs) and the market is around 10% of the size of the Public Display market”, Raikes added. “There is good growth, but from a small base”.
