Trends
• Digital products continue to propel accessories sales.
• Flat-panel video displays are all the rage.
• DVRs have hit prime time.
• Camera phones explode in the wireless phone arena.
• Portable digital devices continue to permeate the consumer experience.
• Sales surge for portable storage such as flash media.
Digital devices are wooing consumers at a record pace, and as they draw in the crowds, so too do the accessories across a gamut of CE categories that make the user experience simpler, more efficient and, often, better-looking.
The steady rise in sales of accessories for video, audio, telephones, camcorders and other wireless accessories has kicked up a few notches during the last two years, a testament to the plethora of available devices and those necessary complements that better the user experience. This year, CEA projects factory sales will swell to $2 billion, from $1.8 billion in 2004.
|
|
Electronic Accessories |
|
|
|
Factory Sales |
|
|
|
|
|
Dollar Sales |
|
|
|
|
(Millions) |
|
2000 |
|
|
1,356 |
|
2001 |
|
|
2,378 |
|
2002 |
|
|
1,500 |
|
2003 |
|
|
1,635 |
|
2004 |
|
|
1,815 |
|
2005p |
|
|
2,015 |
