London – Sharp Europe had the highest growth year-on-year of unit sales of all office equipment manufacturers in Eastern and Western Europe, from April to June 2021, according to the IDC Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker, Q2 2021.
The number of A3 monochrome multi-function printers that Sharp sold increased by 126% compared to sales in the same quarter of the previous year.
As well as a solid performance in monochrome, Sharp also increased unit sales of its A3 colour MFPs in the 21-44ppm segment by 62% and is now ranked fifth in the market.
Jason Cort, Director of Product Planning and Marketing, Sharp Europe says: “Sharp Europe continues to grow thanks to our focus on designing smart and flexible devices with easy-to-use intelligent features, that share the same powerful performance and business functionality. We see these results as an endorsement of our A3 range and appreciation by our dealers and end users of Sharp’s supply chain management efforts to assure product availability during these extraordinary times of component and logistic capacity shortages.”
IDC market reports are based on sales data reported by all major office equipment manufacturers. Reports are published quarterly to subscribers. IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker© fills the need for detailed and timely information on the global hardcopy peripherals (printer, MFP, and digital copier [DC]) market. This market includes all home, office, and production devices for document printing.
About Sharp Europe
Sharp Europe enables small to large businesses and organisations to enhance performance and adapt for their workplaces of the future through a range of business technology products and services.
Headquartered in London, Sharp Europe serves customers in the private and public sectors, Education and Government, with a portfolio ranging from printers and advanced flat screen technologies, collaboration platforms, through to IT services.
As part of Sharp Corporation, and with the backing of Foxconn, Sharp Europe is investing and leading the industry in new areas of technology that have the potential to change the world. It developed the world’s first commercially available 8K monitor and in 2019 launched the world’s first certified Windows collaboration display.
To find out more about how Sharp Europe is changing the future of work, please visit www.sharp.eu
