According to Dell, the proportion of its high-end XPS notebooklijn both in revenue as a share of profits strong. The company sees this as confirmation that its strategy to focus more on profitable consumer products to focus, is successful.
Like other computer manufacturers are struggling Dell disappointing consumentenverkopen in the USA, although the sales in Europe, according to the company stabilized. The market in Asia grew strongly. The desktopverkopen fell last quarter, despite 6 percent, while sales of notebooks decreased 2 percent, according to the quarterly financial statements of the group.
Dell pulls himself to his own words, ever further back from the market for low-endproducten where there is little profit on it. The manufacturer focuses on the high-endlijn of XPS laptops, and the revenue from this line would be 207 percent. Of the total revenue from consumentennotebooks would now be 20 percent come from the XPS line, while this product category is 30 percent of the profits.
The company warns that the supplies in the rest of the year we sometimes could fall by a shortage of parts as a result of the floods in Thailand. Dell is also working to make more sales and profits out of the markets for business products and services. The sales of Server and Networking increased 13 percent, but that from the Storage decreased by 15 percent. Dell stops the supply of EMC storage products and claims that the delivery of storage products where the intellectual property has increased by 23 percent. The for Dell major Services branch recorded an increase in turnover of 10 percent and now 14 percent of sales.