CD-R disc price increase reflected by November sales

The increase in CD-R prices has its influence on sales of two leading companies, CMC Magnetics and Ritek. Both made greater profits on their CD-R sales. If you want to know more about CD-R in general, there's this place called DVD±RW/CD-R(W) Media Forum. Read the entire article here.

The peak season effect and rise of US$0.01 in CD-R disc prices were slightly reflected in November sales of the leading Taiwan based storage disc makers Ritek and CMC Magnetics.

Ritek experienced a rebound in CD-R disc sales this month, citing the price rise starting in October, but suffered a slight drop in CompactFlash (CF) card sales. Consequently, its sales in November remained at the same level as in October. The manufacturing price for CD-R discs is around US$0.17-0.18 per unit.

Benefiting from the CD-R disc price increase, CMC Magnetics, which draws 80% of its revenues from CD-R discs, posted sales of NT$150 million in November, up 2.2% from October. The company's manufacturing price for CD-R discs is US$0.19-0.2 in Europe and US$0.17-0.18 in other regions.

Source: DigiTimes