UK desktop displays up 18 per cent in Q2

Shipments strong across Western Europe in June quarter

Sales of displays for desktops rose 14 per cent year on year across Western Europe in Q2 2014, and up 18 per cent in the UK.

Market analyst figures from Context show growth driven primarily by corporate refreshes following the end of XP support, as companies finally got rid of their older systems.

Lachlan Welsh (pictured), senior analyst at Context, said that consumer-targeted monitors also experienced growth in the quarter.

"Budget conscious consumers [were] able to acquire larger monitors at price points previously reserved for entry level devices," Welsh confirmed.

Across EMEA as a whole, desktop monitor sales were flat. Multifunction monitor sales as a sub-segment did slightly better, registering a 15 per cent year on year shipment increase in Q2 across EMEA, according to Context's figures.

Following in the Western European overall desktop monitors charge led by Austria, which saw an astounding 56 per cent explosion in monitor sales, were the Netherlands with 35 per cent, Czech with 30 per cent, Greece with 26 per cent, Portugal with 22 per cent, and Poland with 19 per cent increases by volume.

The UK then squeaked in ahead of Sweden, which had a 15 per cent increase, and Germany and Italy which both saw 13 per cent rises in shipments. France only struggled to an eight per cent gain in desktop monitor sales, ahead however of Belgium, Finland and Switzerland.

Central and Eastern Europe unit shipments collapsed 27 per cent, and the Middle East and Africa slipped by six per cent in volume terms year on year in the quarter.