International air travels are still grounded in the UK. So if you have some spare time now since your flights have been cancelled, here are some facts that may amuse you.Worldwide sales of mobile phones and smartphones in 2009 reached approximately 1.15 billion. If the sales were to be taken length to length, they would reach around the world three times.
Italy is the second largest European market for watches in 2009 worth an estimated 1.4 billion euros, behind Germany (1.5bn) and ahead of France (1.2bn). Pro rata the population, the average Italian consumer spends 25% more than all of the other European markets.
Taking the average height and width of a washing machine, 2009 Western European sales (M 12.2 units) would have been enough to build the Berlin Wall 11 times over. (The whole wall was 155 km long and 3.6m high)
On average almost 12 cents per euro is spent on Technical Consumer Goods in Western Europe today with a mouse click.
96 million mobile computers were sold in 2009 globally; if piled on top of each other the total length would stretch 4000km, covering the entire Route 66.
276 LCD-TVs, 247 DSC cameras, 232 portable media players and 78 satellite navigation systems were sold on average per minute globally in 2009.
Data Source: GfK Retail and Technology
GfK is one of the world's leading market research company for tracking point-of-sale data in consumer technology markets, co-operating with retailers and resellers in more than 70 countries. The GfK data platform, StarTrack, ensures manufacturers and industry leaders receive comparable information at international level.
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