Top 10 PC and Laptop Brands in World 2015

The global laptop market will grow at a CAGR of (1.0)% in terms of revenue during 2014-2019. The market leaders in the laptop industry are Dell, HP, Lenovo, ASUS along with other prominent brands like Apple Mac Book, Sony Vaio, Toshiba, Fujitsu and Acer.
Here is a list of top 10 personal computer(PC) and laptop brands in the world in 2015. 

1. HP

It was the year 1930 when Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard met at Stanford university and cemented their partnership in a small garage on Addison Avenue.

This landmark is also known as the “Birthplace of Silicon valley. Their partnership gave birth to an American company headquartered at Palo Alto, California, United States named HP. In 1947, HP incorporated and in 1957, it went Public. The company took over Compaq in the year of 2002 and today it sells both HP and Compaq brands. In 2006, HP Services were launched. HP entered into the home-computing market in the year of 1995 by the name HP Pavillion PC and since then it has become one of the most popular brands in the world. Today HP produces a line of computers and is one of the market leaders in the world. HPs laptops are simple and is said that they never go out of style. The company on environmental fronts is also very responsible as it produces of more than a billion ink cartridges manufactured with recycled plastic and planet’s first PVC-free printer, the HP ENVY 100 e- All-in One. The company today ranks number 1 in the world according to its market share.
HP market share - 20.1%

2. Lenovo

With headquarters in different places ranging from Beijing, China to Mrrisville, North Carolina, US, the chinese multinational company is giving a tough competition to HP in computers and laptop market.

It was founded in 1984 and incorporated in 1988 and in 2005, the company acquired IBM's personal computer business.For the first 20 years, the company's name was Legend, however in 2003, the company came out with the new name Lenovo.Recently, in 2015, Lenovo revealed a new logo with the slogan "Innovation never stands still".Lenovo's operations is widely spread across the globe in more than 60 countries and sells its products in around 160 countries.The main computers which it offers in Thinkpad, Thinkstation and Idea pad amongst a huge variety of computers. Lenovo stands 2nd to HP in terms of the market share as the 2014 figures with a market share of 17.5%.
Lenovo market share – 17.5%

3. Dell

Michael Dell at the age of 19 founded PC's limited with $1000.

He had a game changing vision for how technology should be designed, manufactured and sold ultimately. The industry's fastest performing PC, what Dell cliams, was unveiled by the company in 1986 which was having 12Mhz, 286-based system at the Spring complex trade show. In 1987, Dell came out with its first international subsidiary in the United Kingdom.Today after 1 year of privatisation, the company is the fastest growing company in the world with revenue growth outpacing the market. Dell is also a global storage leader.Dell is the first company in the IT industry to establish a product-recycling goal and completed the impementation of its global consumer recycling-program in 2006. The Dell is one of the market leaders today and ranks in top 3 according to its market share of 2014.
Dell market share - 12.3%

4. ASUS

The Taiwanese multinational trading under the name ASUSTeK Computer Inc. is a computer hardware and electrnics company headquartered at Beitou, Taipei, Taiwan.

ASUS was founded by T.H.Tung, Ted Hsu, Wayne Hsieh and M.T.lao in 1989, all of the four founders had worked in Acer as hardware engineers.The company is known for its everchanging taglines with "Rock solid, heart touching" to "Inspiring innovatin, Persistaent Perfection" and currently "In search of Incredible". Appearing in the Infotech 100 by BusinessWeek,Asus has been ranked in Asia's top 10 IT Companies with a total brand value of $1.3 billion.Today ASUS operates across 32 countries and 50 service sites with over 400 service partners worldwide. The products offered by ASUS include laptops, tablet computers, desktop computers and various other electronic gadgets.As far as company's recognition is concerned, ASUS obtained IECQ (IEC Quality Assessment System for Electronic Components),HSPM(Hazardous Substance Process Management) certifications in 2006.It als recieved 11 Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) Gold Awards for its products. Asus stands fourth in marketshare.
Market share - 11.0%

5. Acer

Founded by Stan Shih and his wife Carolyn Yeh with a group of five others in 1976, Acer was given a name Multitech.

The company has got its headquarters at Hsinchu City, Taiwan. The company had 11 emplyees initially and $25000 in capital initially. By 2005, Acer had employed 7800 people worldwide with revenues of 11.31 in 2006.Acers lower costs and dedication to only one channel has made it on eof the successful companies in the world. It was November 2013, when CEO J.T.Wang and President Jim Wong both resigned due to company's financial performance. In July 2011, Acer bought iGware Inc. for $320 million to enter into one of the most potentially lucrative markets of cloud computing. Acer was rated 7th highest of 24 consumer electronics companies for its Enough Project. Today, Acer is giving tough competition to other companies in the laptop and computers market and is in our top 10 brands of laptops and computers according to its market share.
Acer market share - 10.0%

6. Apple

The most valued and admired brand in the world, Apple needs no introduction.

Founded by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne on April 1, 1976. The company was incorporated as Apple Computer, Inc. on January 3, 1977. It was then renamed as Apple Inc. on January 9, 2007 when it came up with Iphone. Being the second-largest information technology company after revenues on the basis of revenue. It has got 98000 permanent employees and has presence in 16 countries with its retail stores. Apple sells a wide variety of computers, be it MacBook, MacBook Air or Mac Mini.The most famous of the computers by Apple is Macbook which is a brand of notebook computers manufactured by Apple Inc. from early 2006 to late 2011 and relaunched in 2015. The MacBook is aimed at the consumer and education markets and collectively, the MacBook brand is the leader in the premium segment of laptops. Apple stands in the toop 10 of the computer and laptop brands with a market share of more than 9% in the year 2014.
Apple market share - 9.3%

7. Toshiba

Toshiba was founded in 1938.Its is a Japenese multinational headquartered at Tokyo, Japan.

Toshiba was a product of merger between Shibaura Seisakusho and Tokyo Denki. Toshiba offers a wide variety of diversified products and services including IT services, communications equipment and sustems.Toshiba has four business groupings : the Digital Products Group, the Electronic Devices Group, the Home Appliances Group and the Social Infrastructure Group.In 1977, Semp, a Brazillian company was acquired by Toshiba.In 2012, Toshiba acquired IBM's point of sale business for $850 million, making it the world's largest vendor of point-of-sale systems.Presently Toshiba has aroud 210,000 employees and has registered 2483 patents in the US in 2011.On the environmental front, Toshiba hasnt made much of efforts.Toshiba also had constructed Unit 3 of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant which was damaged on March 14, 2011. However, Toshiba stands in the top 10 brands of laptops and computers according to its market share as per 2014.
Toshiba market share - 6.6%

8. Samsung

Samsung Electronics Co,. Ltd is one of the market leaders in consumer electronics with is headquarters at Suwon, South Korea.

The company is a subsidiary of Samsung Group and accounts for almost a huge 70% share of group's revenue.Samsung Electronics has a presence in more than 80 countries and 370000 employess across different geographies.CEO of Samsung is Kwon Oh-Hyun since 2012. Earlier Samsung was manufacturer of electronic components for clients like Apple, HTC etc., however in recent years Samsung has emerged as a company with diverse portfolios and today it stands as the world's largest mobile and smartphone manufacturer. The company is listed in Guide to Greener electronics by Greenpeace, which rates electronics companies on policies and practices to reduce their impact on the climate.The company is also listed in Dow Jones Sustainability Index. The company is the market leader when it comes to Mobiles and Smartphones but lags behind when it comes to laptops and market share and hence is almost on the fag end of the top 10 Laptop and computer brands in the world by market share.
Samsung market share - 2.7%

9. Sony Vaio

Vaio corporation manufactured personal computers at one point of 21st century and unfortunately it stopped doing so.

Introduced in 1996, the PC business of Sony was sold to Japan Industrial Partners in February 2014 so as to restructure corporation to focus on mobile devices. The word Vaio meant Video Audio Integrated Operation which was amended to Visual Audio Intelligent Organizer in 2008 celebrating the 10th anniversary of the brand. It was on 4th February 2014, that it was announced that the Sony would sell its Vaio PC business due to its poor sales and the sale closed on 1st July 2014. Vaio had a wide range of products ranging from notebooks, subnotebooks to media centres.Sony Vaio models used to come with the Sony's XBRITE displays and it was claimed that the products had smooth finish and a sharper screen display. The company had a meagre international market share of almost 0.6% according to 2014 figures.
Sony market share - 0.6%

10. Fujitsu

Fujitsu is a Japenese multinational which is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and is one of the third largest IT Service provider measured by revenues after IBM and HP.

The company was established on June 20,1935 under the name of Fuji Telecommunications. The company produces various computing products. The company has almost 162000 employees and is present in more than 100 countries. The company celeberates its 80th anniversary since its establishment in the 1930s. Fuitsu’s all notebooks and tablets PCs are reported to be globally compliant with the latest energy star standard. Fujitsu has also been ranked 3rd among the 21 companies by Greenpeace’s Cool IT leaderboard of February 2012, which evaluates global IT companies on their leadership in the fight to stop climate change. The company had an old slogan “The possibilities are infinite”and hence its logo is like the infinity and now it is in the process of rolling out a new slogan “possibilities are infinite.
Fujitsu market share - 0.5%

Top 10 PC and Laptop Brands in World