KIEV, July 19 - Japan's Toshiba Company plans by late 2007 to occupy 15% of the Ukrainian laptop market, representatives of the European branch of the Japanese concern - Toshiba Europe Gmbh - said at a press conference on Wednesday.

Toshiba Europe General Manager in the CIS and Baltic countries, Ihor Snytko, said that the company by late 2006 occupied around 12% of the market, although sales were low in the first and the second quarters of 2007.