Taken together, says research director Michael Liard, “These numbers provide strong evidence that the RFID market is growing at a healthy pace.” Expectations for RFID budgets through 2011 are also encouraging, says Liard: “The positive news is that the majority of respondents are concentrated in the “increase” category. Even better is that only 4 percent of all respondents reported no budget planned for RFID in 2011.” Specifically, 54 percent of the 128 organizations polled expect to increase their RFID spending, while only 11 percent foresee a decrease in expenditure. The “increase spending” percentage rises to 62 percent among respondents who are at the pilot program stage; even within the group least likely to grow their budgets – those which have completed RFID deployment – some 46 percent expect to spend more in 2011 than they did in 2010. www.abiresearch.com