Feb 25 2010
VIZIO, America's #1 LCD HDTV Company, headquartered in Irvine, California announced today that it was the #1 shipper of LCD HDTVs in the U.S. for 2009, surpassing all foreign TV brands according to iSuppli's Q4 2009 U.S. TV unit shipment results. VIZIO, recently named one of Ad Age's Hottest Brands of 2009, led for the entire year on a cumulative unit basis, starting with a strong first quarter and closing out 2009 with a record-setting 4th quarter. Strong holiday sales helped VIZIO, a U.S. company, ship an industry-leading 1.844 million LCD HDTVs in the U.S. in the 4th quarter to give them a total of 5.92 million units shipped in the U.S. for the year.
"2009 was a remarkable year on many fronts, we became the #1 shipper of LCD HDTV's in the US and as an American Company we are proud U.S. consumers are choosing VIZIO over our foreign competitors," stated Laynie Newsome, VIZIO Co-Founder and VP Sales & Marketing Communications. "In 2010 we are working hard to exceed our customer's expectations with exciting new products like VIZIO Internet Apps, High Definition Blu-ray DVD Players, wireless Internet routers and internet apps enabled entertainment systems. We are expanding our high definition home theater sound collection, while launching 3D enabled LCD HDTVs, High Definition Personal Home Theater headphones, and portable razor thin LED LCD HDTVs."
"VIZIO's showing this quarter was very strong with Best Selling models at 19", 32" and 40" - covering all the key selling sweet spots," stated Tamaryn Pratt, Quixel Research. "They did this at the same time while having a strong showing in value ranking among LED models."
DisplaySearch recently released their North America shipment results showing VIZIO's continuing growth in large size (40"+) HDTVs and advanced technologies spurred in part by the success of the 55" and 47" TruLED HDTVs introduced this fall. Among the five largest brands by shipment, VIZIO had the largest YoY increases in 40"+ and 120+240Hz frame rate HDTVs for the 4th quarter according to DisplaySearch.
"VIZIO has been able to maintain their strong share in small and mid size HDTVs, while growing in larger screen sizes (40"+)," said Paul Gagnon, Director of North America TV Research at DisplaySearch. "They have also seen growth in advanced technologies such as high frame rate LCD TVs, posting the highest Y/Y growth of 120+240 Hz HDTVs in North America during Q4'09."