I think inflation doesn't affect much to peoples in Singapore. Even though peoples keep whining about the price hike of food, oil, erp, housing & other necessities, but they still willing to spend so much on IT gadgets.
As quoted from Today Online
Tech-savvy bargain-hunters thronged the PC Show at Suntec Singapore over the last four days and when the curtains fell yester-day evening, the cash registers had chalked up some $51.7 million in sales, nearly double last year’s turnover. The annual event, Singapore’s longest-running information technology and consumer electronics exhibition, welcomed more than 1.1 million visitors this year – the 18th year it has been running. Show organiser Lines Exposition
and Management Services Organisers had to double the amount of exhibition space to more than 30,000 square metres to accommodate a record 600 exhibitors, up 50 per cent from about 400 last year. Laptops remained the perennial favourite of shoppers, while other electronic products such as printers, digital cameras and smartphones also flew off the shelves. Among the main exhibitors were household brands such as Apple, Dell and Hewlett Packard.
As quoted from Today Online
Tech-savvy bargain-hunters thronged the PC Show at Suntec Singapore over the last four days and when the curtains fell yester-day evening, the cash registers had chalked up some $51.7 million in sales, nearly double last year’s turnover. The annual event, Singapore’s longest-running information technology and consumer electronics exhibition, welcomed more than 1.1 million visitors this year – the 18th year it has been running. Show organiser Lines Exposition
and Management Services Organisers had to double the amount of exhibition space to more than 30,000 square metres to accommodate a record 600 exhibitors, up 50 per cent from about 400 last year. Laptops remained the perennial favourite of shoppers, while other electronic products such as printers, digital cameras and smartphones also flew off the shelves. Among the main exhibitors were household brands such as Apple, Dell and Hewlett Packard.
2 comments:
PC shows always seem to be cash cows.. always so crowded! :)
Singaporeans really crazed about gadgets. At least they appreciated the hard-work.
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