Components, Autosound Sizzle In August
By Joseph Palenchar -- TWICE, 11/4/2002
ARLINGTON, VA. — Surging sales of home components and car audio didn't offset double-digit declines in home systems and portable audio, sending factory-level audio sales down in August by 4.3 percent to $647 million and holding the year-to-date sales level at $4.92 billion, CEA statistics show.
Here's how each market segment fared:
Home components: Sales gained 19.6 percent to $121 million, helping tip year-to-date sales into the plus side with a 2.9 percent gain to $857 million. August's gain was the highest percentage gain of any month since October 1995's 33.4 percent jump. The month also marked the year's third consecutive monthly double-digit percentage gain and fourth consecutive monthly gain.
Autosound: Sales rose for the fifth consecutive month, this time by 14.6 percent to a record $189 million, contributing to a year-to-date increase of 10.6 percent to $1.6 billion. So far, monthly sales have fallen only once during the year, and six other months were up at double-digit rates.
Portable audio: Products are shrinking in size, but so are sales, which resumed their double-digit sales declines in August following three consecutive months of single-digit gains. August sales fell 17.6 percent to $170 million, contributing to a 9.5 percent decline in year-to-date sales to $1.27 billion. August's drop was the largest in percentage terms since August 1999's 18.5 percent drop.
Home systems: What used to be the growth engine in the home-audio industry continued to misfire in August, when sales fell at a double-digit rate for the second consecutive month following three growth months. Sales were off 18 percent for the month to $166 million and 3.7 percent for the year to $1.2 billion. August's percentage decline was the steepest of any month since February 1996's 23.2 percent drop.
Total home audio: Combined sales of components and systems were off 5.5 percent for the month to $287 million and off 1.1 percent for the year-to-date to $2.06 billion.
August 2002 Audio Sales(Factory level, in millions)
| August | YTD | |
| Portables¹ | $170.5 (-17.6%) | $1,266 (-9.5%) |
| Home Components² | $121.3(+19.6%) | $857.4 (+2.9%) |
| Home Systems³ | $166.2 (-18.0%) | $1,199 (-3.7%) |
| Aftermarket Autosound | $189.3 (+14.6%) | $1,601 (+10.6%) |
| Total Audio | $647.2 (-4.3%) | $4,923 (0.0%) |
| ¹ Includes home radios. ² Consists of electronic components, speakers. ³ Consists of shelf, rack and home-theater-in-a-box electronics/speaker systems. Source: CEA, Arlington, Va. ©TWICE 2002 | ||
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