The combined TV set shipments of the six major Chinese TV brands – Changhong, Hisense, Haier, Konka, Skyworth and TCL (The Creative Life) – will total 58.43 million this year, according to the latest report from WitsView, a division of TrendForce. This year’s estimated annual shipments from these six vendors represent a 2.7% increase compared with the 56.91 million sets shipped in 2014.
Major regional markets (i.e. China, the U.S. and Japan) and other emerging markets continue to drive the demand growth of this year’s photovoltaic (PV) market. The latest report by EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce, says that the five largest regional markets for the first half of 2015, as listed in order, are China, Japan, the U.S., the U.K. and Germany.