Samsung raises 2009 flat-panel TV shipment target 15 percent

James Chung, a spokesman at Suwon, South Korea-based Samsung, didn't give a breakdown between liquid-crystal display and plasma models. Samsung said earlier this year it plans to sell more than 22 million LCD TVs and 4 million plasma sets.

Samsung, which sold 7.73 million flat-screen TVs in the third-quarter, said last month it expects to outgrow industry shipments in the current period, driven by sales of more expensive models. Samsung forecast global flat-panel TV demand will increase about “mid-twenties” percentage in the fourth quarter from the previous three-month period.

Global LCD TV shipments may rise 24 percent to 130 million sets this year, higher than an earlier projection for 127 million units, according to Austin, Texas-based researcher DisplaySearch in September.

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