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Black Friday pushed John Lewis, in the UK, to its best-ever trading week. Sales totalled £179.1 million ($280.4 million), up 21.8% YoY – well above the previous total of £164.4 million ($257.4 million). Online sales were up 42.2%, and 300% in the early hours of the day. Electricals was the best-performing department, with sales rising … Read more
LCFC Electronics of China is a Lenovo/Compal joint venture. Asian sources have said that the company expects to ship 15 million notebooks this year. Five million were shipped in Q3 and another 5 million in Q1 and Q2. Next year, the JV aims to ship 20 million units – representing more than 50% of Lenovo’s … Read more
Trendforce says that major panel makers will continue to add LTPS production lines between 2015 and 2016, with a focus on G5.5 and G6 sizes. By 2016, total area capacity is expected to more than double from its 2013 figure: from 5.8 million m² to 11.7 million m². Japan Display currently has a 30% share … Read more
Media-Saturn is to create a portfolio of online pure-play companies and concepts under the name Electronics Online Group (EOG), with its existing online business Redcoon as the core. EOG will be led by Martin Smith, founder of Idealo, Germany’s leading comparison portal, who has been named as CEO. The company said that, in addition to … Read more
European brands, MLS Multimedia and Vecom, have joined TCO Certified. MLS is a Greek company, which has certified its E550 notebook to the TCO Certified Notebooks approval level. Russia’s Vecom has certified its EM2331WIV monitor in the TCO Certified Displays category.
Intel has introduced four new Core M chips, which are faster than the original devices from IFA (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 36). The news comes from CPU World, which claims that the chips will be available from Q1’15 – although Intel’s ARK database already shows them as ‘launched’. They are dual-core units supporting Hyperthreading … Read more
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) says that its findings in the latest BRC-KPMG Online Retail Sales Monitor for October suggest another record online Christmas this year. Online sales represented 18.2% of total sales in the non-food category last month, its highest penetration level since Christmas 2013. The overall electrical sector performed strongly, though the AV … Read more
Glass-film-film and one-glass solution touch panels are increasingly being pressured by on-cell solutions in the lower-end of the mobile market. Reports from Asia indicate that Nokia and Motorola are placing large orders for the technology, while Innolux has seen its yields rise to 90%. Worldwide on-cell shipments are expected to reach 129 million units in … Read more
Plessey has signed a distribution agreement with Syscom Electronique to expand its European network with coverage in the France and Tunisia markets for its GaN-on-Silicon LED products.
Quantum Materials Corp has signed an agreement with the Science Technology and Research (STAR) Park in San Marcos, Texas, to massively raise its quantum dot (QD) production space. New offices are due to be completed in or before June 2015, quadrupling QMC’s available area.
A ‘rubber-like’ glass has been developed by researchers in Japan. Scientists from the Tokyo Institute of Technology and Asahi Glass have discovered a type of oxide glass that behaves differently when it is stretched from a supercooled, liquid state. The ‘mixed alkali metaphosphate glass’ possesses a molecular structure similar to that of organic rubber: long, … Read more
Sales in the week ending 6th December were up 10.8% YoY at John Lewis in the UK, to £160 million ($250.8 million). Week-on-week sales were down 10.6%, following the store’s biggest-ever trading week.
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