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Samsung Electronics maintained its global lead in television sales in the first quarter. The Korean company's global sales topped the 20 percent mark for the first time in the global TV market in the January-March period, market researcher DisplaySearch said on Wednesday.
Samsung was trailed by Sony (13.2 percent market share), LG Electronics (11.6 percent), Sharp (7.3 percent), and Panasonic (7.0 percent). This marks the ninth consecutive quarter that Samsung has been the world's top TV seller.
Samsung also retained the top spot in terms of the number of television sets sold in the first quarter with a market share of 15.7 percent. Next was LG (13.3 percent), Sony (8.0 percent), TCL (7.1 percent), and Philips (6.5 percent).
Samsung's sales of high value-added LCD television sets were particularly strong, jumping by more than 70 percent year-on-year for total sales of 4,136,000 units in the quarter.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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