★ PEOPLES ★ AMSTRAD SALES SOAR IN FRANCE (POPULAR COMPUTING WEEKLY) ★ |
Amstrad sales soar in France (Popular Computing Weekly) |
AS AMSTRAD consolidates its position in the UK home market, with the CPC 664 now in the shops, the CPC 464 has become one of the fastest selling computers in France. Amstrad now claims a fifty per cent share of the French market, which was previously dominated by the French company Thompson, and the British developed Oric machines. Amstrad has sold around 60,000 computers in France this year, and launched the 664 there at the Special Sicob exhibition in Paris earlier this month. "France has been an amazing market for us,” said William Poel of Amsoft. "We do have an advantage in that we can move stock quickly into markets, since the computer with built in monitor can be transported easily from country to country - no conversion of video output is needed." Popular Computing Weekly (1985-5)
|