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RFID Gains Good – But Not That Good

According to Venture Development Corp.’s recently released ‘Retail CPG Vertical Market’ volume of its annual RFID Business Planning Service, the global market for RFID systems in the retail CPG vertical reached an estimated US$161 million in 2005, with hardware accounting for approximately 41 percent. VDC anticipates a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 57 percent over the next five years, with revenue shipments exceeding $1.5 billion in 2010.

During 2005, many RFID suppliers’ test pilots, revamped educational programs, strengthened their distribution networks, and took other steps to raise RFID awareness and adoption. Much of the activity has been solely compliance driven, with users focused on meeting mandates (with varying degrees of deployment), VDC says.

According the suppliers and users, compliance mandates are what drove adoption and growth in 2005 -- though not to the levels many anticipated. With live deployments occurring in 2005, there is no question that a milestone has been achieved. Nonetheless the number of tagged retail CPG pallet shipments remains low (approximately less than 1 percent of total shipments).

Your next issue of Canadian Electronics magazine will include a discussion on the love-hate relationship the market seems to be having with RFID. Don’t miss it.

Tim Gouldson,
Editor, Canadian Electronics
tgouldson@clbmedia.ca  

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