Compaq Takes Worldwide Lead in Branded Monitors; Compaq Surpasses IBM, NEC and Apple in Worldwide Monitor Shipments.HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 10, 1995 -- Reflecting continued worldwide growth and an ongoing customer preference for its products, Compaq Computer Corporation (company) Compaq Computer Corporation - The largest US manufacturer and vendor of IBM PC compatible personal computers and servers. Compaq was started in 1982 by three ex-Texas Instruments employees. Quarterly sales $2499M, profits $210M (Aug 1994). http://compaq.com/. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CPQ CPQ Compaq CPQ Conseil du Patronat du Québec (Canada) CPQ Configure-Price-Quote CPQ Conseil de Presse du Québec (Québec Press Council, Canada) CPQ Companion Parrot Quarterly ) today announced that it has moved into the number one marketshare position worldwide in branded monitors. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a recent Dataquest study of 1994 worldwide monitor growth, Compaq increased monitor shipments 55.4 percent from 1993, and captured the number one spot among the top 10 monitor vendors. Surpassing IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. and Apple, Compaq led the pack with a 15 percent unit marketshare of the top 10 brands. These figures reflect an increased awareness and preference for Compaq's full line of innovative, high quality, and value-priced monitors, as well strong customer loyalty for the Compaq brand. "Monitor sales experienced better-than-expected growth in 1994, with new vendors moving into top marketshare positions," said Jack Roberts Jack Roberts (September 27, 1910 - October 1981) was an American football running back in the NFL for the Boston Redskins, Staten Island Stapletons, Philadelphia Eagles, and the Pittsburgh Pirates. He played college football at the University of Georgia. , Director and Principal Analyst, Dataquest. "Compaq has a solid reputation for delivering high-quality, reliable products, as evidenced by their move into the number one position in branded monitor shipments worldwide." "As Compaq continues to expand its product line of innovative solutions for PC users and maintains its position as the leading PC supplier, it is crucial that our monitors reflect the same quality, reliability and value as our PCs," said John Rose, senior vice president and general manager, Compaq Desktop PC Division. "These figures support that strategy, as well as a trend we are seeing toward stronger loyalty for the Compaq brand, increased demand in the consumer market, and increased preference for Compaq monitors by our commercial accounts." Compaq offers a full line of high-resolution, Energy Star- compliant monitors for business and consumer markets that embody Compaq's hallmark of quality, reliability and exceptional value. Targeted at demanding business users, Compaq offers an extensive line of high performance monitors that are Plug and Play ready and come equipped with AssetControl capabilities, enabling them to work with Compaq's Intelligent Manageability. Intelligent Manageability is a collection of desktop management tools and features standard on the Compaq Deskpro The Compaq Deskpro was a line of business-oriented personal computers manufactured by Compaq, discontinued after the merger with Hewlett-Packard. The original Compaq Deskpro, available in several disk configurations, was equipped with an 8MHz 8086 CPU and Compaq's unique line that dramatically reduces total cost of PC ownership. AssetControl allows administrators to maintain an accurate, up-to-date inventory of desktop PCs and their components and allows for effective and accurate tracking of drivers and operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . It also helps to streamline service calls since the administrator can provide the service person fast access to the PC's configuration history. For its consumer products, Compaq offers several Multimedia Presario monitors, complete with integrated speakers and microphone for telephone answering machine capabilities or multimedia applications and games. Compaq Background Compaq Computer Corporation is the world's largest supplier of personal computers, offering desktop PCs, portable PCs and servers. Founded in 1982, Compaq reported 1994 worldwide sales of $10.9 billion. Compaq products are sold and supported in more than 100 countries through a network of more than 38,000 Compaq marketing partners. Compaq provides 24-hour customer support and can be reached through the Compaq forums on America Online See AOL. , CompuServe, Internet (http://www.compaq.com) and Prodigy, or by calling 1-800-345-1518. -0- Compaq, Registered U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. 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