SMART leads 2009 whiteboard product category

SMART Technologies announces its continued leadership in the global interactive whiteboard product category with a 48.2 percent share for 2009.

According to Futuresource Consulting,an independent global research company that has tracked interactive whiteboard sales for more than nine years,SMARTs share for all of 2009 was more than twice its nearest competitor.

SMART sold just over 360,000 SMART Board interactive whiteboards in 2009,a record yearly total for the company and an increase of more than 60,000 interactive whiteboard sales versus the previous record established in 2008.

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Sales of SMART Board interactive whiteboards continued to be strong in the United States,where the company sold nearly 200,000 interactive whiteboards in 2009 and attained a 60.9 percent product category share.

Futuresource reports that the value of 2009 global sales in the interactive whiteboard product category surpassed US$1 billion. The total number of interactive whiteboards sold by all manufacturers during 2009 was 747,572,up nearly 34 percent from the previous year.

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