’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.