JAPAN:2007 OFFICE EQUIPMENT SALES UP 5.3%

’07 Shipments of Japan-Made Office Equipment Up 5.3 Percent
Tokyo,
Feb  2008  Global shipments of Japanese-made office equipment in 2007
grew 5.3 pct from the previous year to 1,993 billion yen, rising for
the fourth straight year, an industry group said Tuesday.Domestic
shipments rose 3.7 pct to 603.6 billion yen, and exports increased 6.1
pct to 1,389.5 billion yen, the Japan Business Machine and Information
System Industries Association said.By category, shipments of copiers
and multifunctional copiers rose 4.7 pct to 1,059 billion yen due to
increasing demand for color copiers.Shipments of data projectors rose
8.7 pct to 279.5 billion yen, and those of calculators, electronic
dictionaries and personal digital assistants grew 14.8 pct to 120.6
billion yen.Meanwhile, page printer shipments were down 0.2 pct at
397.6 billion yen.