21 May 2004 23:43 Acer CIS plans to triple turnover in 2004 MOSCOW. May 21 (Interfax) - Acer CIS, the subdivision of Taiwan's Acer Inc. in Russia and the Commonwealth of
Independent States, plans to triple its turnover in 2004, Acer CIS general manager Gleb Mishin announced at a press
conference in the Russian capital.
"Among our goals are increasing the company's share of the [laptop computer] market to 10% and returning to
the market for federal-scale projects," Mishin said. Acer CIS did 15.2 million euros worth of turnover in 2003.
"We sold 8,829 notebooks [computers] in the first quarter of 2004, almost as many as all of last year, and the
company's quarterly turnover increased by two and a half times, profits 20-fold," Mishin said.
Acer Inc. produces personal computers, servers and information storage equipment, monitors and computer peripherals.
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