NEW YORK — Retail sales of consumer electronics products rose 1.8 percent last year for the industry’s 100 largest dealers. Their total haul: $121.3 billion, up from $119.1 billion in 2008.
Not a bad take for the worst year of the worst recession in decades.
But the numbers, which came by way of the TWICE Top 100 CE Retailers report, our annual review of the state of electronics retailing, reveal a tale of two cities in 2009, as some businesses saw their fortunes soar and others rode out the clock to oblivion. Most Top 100 dealers took a licking with single and double-digit declines last year, but lived to see another day….The rankings, compiled by TWICE research partner The Stevenson Company of Louisville, Ky., reconfirmed the concentration of CE buying power among a handful of chains. The 10 largest dealers accounted for 74 percent of Top 100 volume last year, while those ranked 26th through 100th together represented less than 10 percent of sales.
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