Nokia claws back market share by cutting back prices
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Stockholm - Nokia, the world&#39;s biggest cellphone maker, took market share in the second quarter by cutting prices and introducing new models, rebounding from its lowest level since 1999, market researcher Gartner said yesterday.
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Top mobile phone maker Nokia plans to cut hundreds of jobs in Finland and abroad as it seeks to curb research spending, but said on Tuesday it would also boost production staff at a key handset plant.
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Nokia Oyj&#39;s share of the global mobile-phone market rose for a second straight quarter as the company reduced prices and introduced new models.
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Nokia Oyj, the world&#39;s largest mobile- phone maker, said profit may drop for a second straight quarter. Earnings fell 20 percent in the three months ended in September because the company cut prices to regain market share.
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Robust demand for new cheaper phones boosted third-quarter earnings at Nokia Oyj, the world's biggest maker of mobile phones, with the better than expected result sending its shares sharply higher.
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Market share of the world's top mobile phone maker Nokia Oyj  is rising, industry analysts said, after its closest rival Motorola Inc  warned investors of a second-quarter loss and lower sales.
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Nokia saw sales soar in China last year as the world's largest maker of mobile phones started tapping the nation's huge rural market, according to state media.
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NOKIA&#39;S SALES SLIDE has been halted according to figures released by the Gartner Group. The analysts predict Nokia&#39;s share of the global market crept back to almost 30 per cent.
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PARIS Global cellphone sales rose to record levels in the second quarter as Nokia clawed back some of its lost market share, according to figures released Thursday.
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Nokia, the world's top cellphone maker, reported a 57 percent rise in earnings per share in the October-to-December quarter, with booming demand in emerging markets boosting its global market share to 40 percent.
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(InfoWorld) - Nokia Corp., the world's top handset maker, said on Thursday it plans to reshuffle 700 employees over the next few months, citing a need to improve its focus and efficiency. Nokia will try to move some employees into new positions in the company, while others could take voluntary severance packages, said Arja Suominen, vice president of communications. She said she did not know many employees would be laid off, although the company will study the shuffle. Those affected are 360 employees in Nokia's Enterprise Solutions business group; 140 in the Software Platforms area of its Technology Platforms unit; 130 who deal with the company's global IT operations; and 30 in Customer and Market Operations. It wasn't clear where the remaining 40 employees work, although Nokia said the changes would affect a maximum of 700 workers. Nokia said 340 of those staff affected are based in Finland. Nokia employs 68,000 worldwide. Nokia said its Enterprise Solutions division would take a sharper focus on markets where there is a greater return on investment. Nokia posted losses for the division in every quarter in fiscal 2006, including an operating loss of â¬64 million (US$83 million) in the fourth quarter. "It's very clear we will need to make that business profitable," said Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, president and CEO of Nokia, referring to the enterprise division. "We're looking at different options in order to do that." He spoke during a press conference at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona on Monday and didn't hint at the cuts announced on Thursday. Nokia said it also wanted greater efficiency from the R&D (research and development) efforts of its Technology Platforms unit. Nokia has suffered declining sales in North America while the average selling price of its models has also fallen. However, profits and revenue have remained strong, and the company reported a 19 percent increase in net profit for its fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, 2006, over a year prior, up to â¬1.3 billion. Â  Nancy Gohring in Barcelona contributed to this report.
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Nokia Corp. increased its global market share of mobile phone handsets for a second successive quarter, reaching 30.9 percent with sales of 51.7 million units, market researcher Gartner Inc.
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Nokia Corp. on Tuesday cut its operating margin targets, blaming increased exposure to the network infrastructure business.Comment
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Nokia&#39;s net profit jumped in the third quarter as the company made up for the falling average selling price of its phones by shipping more of them, the company said Thursday.For the three months ending Sept. 30, net profit increased 85 percent over the third quarter of 2006, to &#8364;1.6 billion ($2.3 billion). Net sales rose 28 percent to &#8364;12.9 billion. Earnings per share rose 90 percent to &#8364;0.40.The company shipped 112 million units, 26 percent more than in the same period a year before. Nokia estimates it holds a 39 percent share of the mobile market.The ASP (average selling price) of mobile phones, however, has fallen from &#8364;90 to &#8364;82, Nokia said. The company said it expects the ASP to continue to decline but volume demand to increase through the end of this year and next.The most dramatic change came from Nokia&#39;s Enterprise Solutions business unit, which includes security appliances and software as well its E Series phones, which are aimed at business users. Operating profit for the unit was &#8364;88 million compared to a &#8364;65 million loss in the third quarter of 2006. Nokia attributed the rise to strong sales of its E65 model.Nokia Siemens Networks reported a 120 percent operating profit decline, which Nokia said was due to restructuring costs and other one-time items. The division, launched in April, is a combination of Nokia Networks and Siemens&#39; carrier-related operations for fixed and mobile networks. Nokia said it has identified &#8364;500 million in savings in combining the two entities that will be realized at the end of 2008.However, sales for Nokia Siemens Networks increased 7 percent over the second quarter of this year, which was the first quarter Nokia reported results for the division.
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Nokia  began the roll-out of  its "N-Gage" gaming service and "Share on Ovi" media sharing  site on Tuesday as falling handset prices spur the world's  largest cell phone maker to expand into mobile Internet  services.
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Nokia Corp. , the world's dominant cellphone maker, is positioning itself to compete against the likes of MySpace, iTunes, and Google, and is anchoring a key part of its new business in the Back Bay.
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Nokia raised its outlook for third-quarter sales and earnings, apparently benefiting from an unusual decision to cut its handset prices.