Acer Sales unfortunately Drop 60 Percent Target Tablets

TAIPEI- Go to the tablet computer market, Acer is not too much to expect. Taiwanese companies had even cut the target device sales to 60 percent homemade tablet.

Acer Sales unfortunately Drop 60 Percent Target Tablets

Acer chairman JT Wang, Wednesday (6/15/2011), states, target tablet sales so far this year only 2.5 million to 3 million units. In fact, at the beginning of the year Acer targeting 5 million to 7 million units. It is estimated that the sale of tablets during the first and second quarter respectively 800,000 units per quarter.

He called it because of the impact of the reorganization that occurred since the resignation of the chair Gianfranco Lonci CEO in March 2011 and then. Inventory adjustment and trend decline in PC demand the last two quarters were also affected.

"The third quarter should be more stable. At least as the second quarter or better," said by JT Wang.

In April 2011 then, Acer lowered estimates the units that are distributed by 10 percent compared to the first quarter. Last month, Acer also announced a 29.2 percent decline in overall sales results.

To overcome a number of problems being faced, Acer will perform austerity measures, among other things, cut inventory costs by 150 million U.S. dollars and do the layoffs of 300 employees in Europe.