Energy-saving lamp prices start to fall, there is still room for price cuts

The shareholding of Philips Yaming Lighting Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Yamin"), one of the major domestic lighting companies, is about to change. Shanghai Yidian Holdings (Group) Co., Ltd. through the Shanghai United Assets and Equity Exchange formally transferred its 7.74% stake in Yaming to the 24.3 million yuan price code.

Prior to this, Fei Le Audio (600651.SH) had announced that it planned to transfer this portion of shares; if the transfer was successful, Fei Le Audio (originally holding 32.26% of Yaming) and Philips would each take up 40% and 60% of Yaming. Shares.

Due to optimistic about the development of the energy saving lamp market, this equity transaction may add new profits to Feile Audio. However, due to the financial crisis, the price of the energy-saving lamp was 20 to 30 yuan, and even higher prices have recently begun to decline.

Lower prices

In a lighting shop on the first floor of the Shanghai Meilun Home Mall, a dealer pulled out an 11-watt energy-saving lamp from the box to the CBN reporter. "This energy-saving lamp with two lamps I give you 6 If you want more money, you can get 5 dollars. It wouldn't have been so low before."

A salesman from another shop in the mall also took off the 11-watt bulb produced by Shanghai Huituo Electric Co., Ltd. from the shelf. She set a price of 6.5 yuan. And a few months ago, the selling price was 8 yuan.

Another store outside the mall called the “Electrical & Mechanical Hardware Sales Department” stores counters and displays four types of energy-saving lamps called “Yaming Lighting”. The 11-watt energy-saving lamp price also dropped from 18 yuan last year to 12. Around Yuan, a drop of 33%.

Zhejiang Sunshine (600261.SH) Dong Qing Wu Qingyi told the author that neither the company nor the wholesalers had reduced prices.

The sales staff of multiple shops attributed the current price drop to the financial crisis.

A salesman told the author that the wholesale price does not have any profit, but because these days of retail sales are not good, some customers tend to choose cheaper incandescent lamps.

In a hardware store on Shanghai Fisheries West Road, the reporter learned that a 45-watt incandescent lamp costs as little as 1 yuan to 2 yuan, while the same type of energy-saving lamp is 18 yuan; while 30-watt and 5-watt incandescent lamps are 1 yuan and 0.5 yuan, the current price of energy-saving lamps is still 12 yuan and 5 yuan.

There is still room for price cuts

But is there still a greater reduction in the price of energy-saving lamps?

Wu Qingyi admits that the energy-saving lanterns will have a certain price cut every year. "The price of the energy-saving lamps we sold overseas was ten dollars a decade ago."

However, he believes that the production of high-end energy-saving lamps in the enterprise, the price cut is basically small.

“There are more than 1,000 manufacturers in the country, and some of the energy-saving lamp products are extremely low in price, because some of the energy-saving lamp materials used by companies, such as phosphors and glass, are too cheap. “The difference between good and bad phosphors can reach 10 times. So there are 2 dollars of energy-saving lamps on the market, but we can't do it with Philips or Yamin. ”

Chen Yansheng, director of the Lighting Industry Association, told reporters that it is difficult for mainstream manufacturers to lower prices, but there is still room for channels to make profits.

The ex-factory price of energy-saving lamps manufactured by Chinese companies is not too high.

“For example, the government had previously purchased tens of millions of energy-saving lamp products at prices ranging from RMB 6 to RMB 10 each, which included a large amount of sales expenses.” said Chen Yansheng, an 11-watt energy-saving lamp priced at RMB 12. The cost of the channel is probably half, "and companies such as Philips may have higher costs for their channels and other links because they have higher requirements for their own profits."