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RETAIL PRICE

PAY LOCAL
Vegetables Unit Price (Rs)
Red Potato Kg Rs 20
Onion (Indian) Kg Rs 28
Tomato Small Kg Rs 46
Tomato Big Kg Rs 38
Squash Kg Rs 28
Cabbage Kg Rs 20
POST REPORT into harilo.com. Competitive Local Cauli Flower Kg Rs 32
KATHMANDU, MARCH 16 prices and speedy delivery are the Brinjal Long Kg Rs 48
features of harilo.com. Smith said Red Radish Kg Rs 30

W
ELCOME to electronic that customers can get the goods
Ginger Kg Rs 65
shopping. The website within 10 days after placing the
harilo.com allows peo- order. “The time of delivery
ple residing in Nepal to buy prod- depends on the websites cus- Fruits Unit Price (Rs)
ucts from abroad with a few tomers use for their shopping. Apple Kg Rs 80
clicks. The website offers a range Generally, it takes two to five days Pomegranate Kg Rs 370
of products from mobile phones, to collect goods ordered through Orange Kg Rs 75
iphones, laptops and computer amazon.com while it takes 10 to Water Melon Kg Rs 45
parts to kitchen utensils, protein 15 days for goods ordered through Sweet Orange Kg Rs 80
shakes, suits and motorbike hel- eBay,” said Smith. “We have a Pine Apple 1Pc Rs 65
mets from stores in the US.
Our customers Kim Smith, a co-founder of
warehouse at Florida to collect
the goods from where they are
Cucumber Kg Rs 45
are not limited to harilo.com, is impressed with the shipped to Nepal usually on Pear Kg Rs 50
customer response they have Tuesday each week.” Papaya Kg Rs 55
the Kathmandu received within eight months of Customers can pay for their Banana Doz Rs 40
Valley. We have opening. “We are receiving purchases through a variety of Lime 100 Pcs Rs 300
around 3,000 hits a day,” said methods. “You can use plastic
been receiving Smith. “Our customers are not money as well as cash,” said
limited to the Kathmandu Valley.
orders from We have been receiving
Smith. Harilo.com has tied up
with Laxmi Bank, Nepal DAILY COMMODITIES
Pokhara, Chitwan, orders from Pokhara, Chitwan, Investment Bank and e-Sewa
Dharan and Birgunj too. We are Nepal for receiving payment.
Dharan and Birgunj planning to open a business point The website contains a list of
Commodities Unit Price (Rs)

too. We are in Pokhara.” websites where customers can do Pokhreli Rice Kg Rs 50

Describing how the business their shopping. “Interested per- Jeera Mashino Rice Kg Rs 50
planning to open got started, Smith said that sons have to fill up a form to get a Indian Bashmati Rice Kg Rs 80
friends and relatives of Akshay
a business point Sthapit, another founder of the
quote of the selected goods. The
quote includes the cost price,
Mansuli Rice Kg Rs 48
in Pokhara online shopping website, would shipment charge, customs and Sona Rice Kg Rs 36
ask him to bring goods from the other payable heads,” said Smith. Beaten Rice (Taichin) Kg Rs 84
US while he was a student there, Customers get the quote within Beaten Rice Kg Rs 40
and he started a mechanism to 24 hours after filling up the form. Big Mas Kg Rs 110
fulfil their requests as a project Harilo.com processes the order Small Mas Kg Rs 100
work in his class which developed after receiving payment.
Big Mung Kg Rs 110
Musuro (No 1) Kg Rs 90
Musuro (No 2) Kg Rs 80
BIZLINE
Ncell to open service Rahar
Chana
Kg
Kg
Rs 110
Rs 88

Tamang, Rai win bikes Chana (Small) Kg Rs 72

in Ncell scheme CENTRES IN KEY CITIES Chilli Powder

Jeera Powder
Kg
Kg
Rs 220
Rs 340
KATHMANDU: Sarita Sugar Kg Rs 66
Tamang and Thum B. Rai, POST REPORT regular services. Ncell’s cor- White Soyabean lt Rs 68
both of Dhankuta, have KATHMANDU, MARCH 16 porate communications Black Soyabean lt Rs 80
own a motorbike each in manager Sanju Koirala said
Fried Mustard Oil lt Rs 180
the third and fourth NCELL has planned to that they would continue
week’s lucky draws open service centres in opening new centres to Soyabean Oil lt Rs 120
respectively under Ncell’s major cities across the provide a better customer Dalda Ghee lt Rs 115
“Gyan Badaun, Puraskar country amid an increase experience. “Since the Nepal Ghee lt Rs 440
Paun” scheme. Similarly, in the number of sub- number of subscribers is
Pradip Giri of Jhapa own scribers. Two services cen- increasing, we are planning
a BlackBerry tres, one at New Road, to open centres in major
Smartphone, Rajesh KC Kathmandu and the other cities,” she added. Service
of Sankhuwasabha a trip to Thailand, and owners at Banepa, Kavre, were centres are slated to be BULLION PRICE PER 10 GRAMS
of mobile numbers 9814144504 and 9806093765 launched recently. opened at Durbar Marg in Hallmark Gold Rs 34,640
have won a LCD TV and a laptop respectively in The newly established Kathmandu, Birgunj, Tejabi Gold Rs 34,460
the third week’s lucky draw. Meanwhile, in the centres will provide servic- Narayanghat and Hetauda. Silver Rs 868
fourth week’s lucky draw, Chiranjibi GC of es such as SIM exchange, Presently, Ncell maintains SOURCE: NEGOSIDA
Nawalparasi own a BlackBerry Smartphone, Raj GPRS and MMS setting, seven centres at New
Dev Yadav an LCD TV, and owners of mobile international roaming, Baneshwor in Kathmandu,
numbers 9815202100 and 9815810112 a laptop call information, balance Pulchok in Lalitpur,
GASOLINE WATCH
and a trip to Thailand respectively. Under the transfer, bill payment, Pokhara, Biratnagar and
scheme which lasts for the next six weeks, Ncell BlackBerry services, corpo- Janakpur. Ncell’s subscriber
subscribers can participate each week by dialling rate services and ownership Ncell CEO Pasi Koistinen inaugurates the New Road base stood at 4.08 million
9090 and getting a famous quote with a registra- transfer and among other Centre on Tuesday. as of mid-December 2010.
tion number which is entered in a lucky draw.

Free number plate

replacement
KATHMANDU: Sipradi Trading, sole
authorised distributor of Tata four-
wheelers in Nepal, will provide owners
of Tata cars and jeeps free handwritten
number plates to replace digital plates
within half an hour. The service will be provided
at Narayani Auto Business at Balkumari from
March 17-18. A press statement issued by the
company said that the move was an initiative to
serve its customers who are being compelled to
stay in long queues to have their number plates
replaced. The statement added that Tata cus-
tomers would also get free car wash service,
free valuation of old models, test drive, exchange
and gift hampers.
EU auto sales bounce back in February
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
BRUSSELS, MARCH 16
NEW car sales in Europe rebounded in
February, rising 0.9 percent on an annu-
al comparison to break a 10-month
streak of falling demand, industry fig-
ures showed on Wednesday.
A total of 981,429 new cars were
registered last month across the
European Union, according to the
European Automobile Manufacturers’
Association (ACEA).
In Europe’s two biggest markets,
German new car sales rose 15.2 percent
to 224,426 and France gained 13.2 per-
cent to 204,400 in February. Sales fell in Petrol (Per Litre)
other major markets, dropping 7.7 per- Rs. 97/-
cent to 63,424 in Britain, 20.5 percent to
160,329 in Italy and 27.6 percent to Diesel (Per Litre)
66,120 in Spain. Rs. 68.50/-
The last time car sales rose overall in
the EU was in March 2010, when they Kerosene (Per Litre)
increased by 10.8 percent. The end of
“cash-for-clunkers” programmes, which
Rs. 68.50/-
had been offered to prop up the industry LPG (Per cylinder)
during the global recession, had caused
sales to fall every month since then—by
Rs. 1,325/-
as much as 18.6 percent in July and 16.6 Source: Nepal Oil Corporation
percent in October.

Subaru, Toyota curb output in N America Energy

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Price (US$) %Change

ASSOCIATED PRESS
DETROIT, MARCH 16
BRENT CRUDE FUTR (bbl) 110.42 1.75%
damage from the earthquake pre- automakers have a three- to four- McHale said he didn’t know
vents parts shipments. Mitsubishi, Other Japanese week inventory of parts in the when overtime will be restored at the
GAS OIL FUT (ICE) (MT) 948.75 -0.34%
GASOLINE RBOB FUT (gal) 283.13 1.01%
for example, has enough parts on automakers say pipeline. “Once those start to dry out, plant, which produced 150,000 vehi-
NATURAL GAS FUTR (MMBtu) 3.96 0.48%

T
WO Japanese automakers are
scaling back production at
North American plants as they
assess their ability to get parts from
Japan after that country’s devastating
earthquake and tsunami.
Subaru of America said Tuesday
it has suspended overtime at its only
North American plant in Lafayette,
Ind. Toyota Motor Corp. also said it
was suspending overtime and
Saturday production at its 10 plants
in the region.
So far, other Japanese automak-
ers say their North American plants
are unaffected. Nissan Motor Co.,
Honda Motor Co., Mitsubishi Motors
and Mazda Motor Corp. all say
they have not changed their produc-
tion plans.
But that could change if lingering
hand or en route to operate its that’s where you see the shortages in cles last year, or 55 percent of
Illinois assembly plant through April their North the assembly plants,” Andrea said. the Subarus sold in the US The plant Agriculture Price (US$) %Change
3, spokesman Dan Irwin said. “The Companies can ill afford those also makes the Tribeca wagon and COCOA FUTURE (MT) 3,261.00 0.18%
situation is fluid, so we continue to
American plants shortages. Subaru spokesman Legacy sedan. COFFEE 'C' FUTURE (lb) 268.6 2.15%
monitor our supply chain and logis- are unaffected Michael McHale said the Indiana Toyota, meanwhile, said the CORN FUTURE (bu) 643 1.10%
tics,” he said. plant had been running on overtime restrictions on overtime and COTTON NO.2 FUTR (lb) 196.75 3.04%
In Japan, auto companies have Saturday shifts were designed to con-
ROUGH RICE (CBOT) (cwt) 13.17 2.29%
shut down production for the rest of serve Japanese-made parts. About 75
the week as they assess damage to percent of the parts in North SOYBEAN FUTURE (bu) 1,296.25 2.07%
plants, ports and roads. While American-built Toyotas are supplied SOYBEAN MEAL FUTR (T) 345 1.23%
Japanese automakers with North locally, but the rest come from Japan. SOYBEAN OIL FUTR (lb) 53.97 2.06%
American plants use locally-based Toyota spokesman Mike Goss SUGAR #11 (WORLD) (lb) 26.18 2.07%
suppliers for many of their parts, wouldn’t specify which parts come WHEAT FUTURE(CBT) (bu) 688.75 3.14%
others still come from Japan. are imported, but said the company
The US imported $12 billion typically has a two- to three-week Industrial Metals Price (US$) %Change
worth of auto parts from Japan in supply of them. COPPER FUTURE (lb) 425.1 2.76%
2010, from spark plugs to engines, analysis and economics, said some because of strong sales of its vehicles. Now supplies are uncertain.
according to the Original Equipment parts had been in short supply prior The Outback wagon, which is made “There’s some pipeline of parts from Precious Metals Price (US$) %Change
Suppliers Association. to the earthquake, including semi- at the plant, is currently at a 30-day Japan to the United States and we’re GOLD 100 OZ FUTR (t oz) 1,403.80 0.79%
Dave Andrea, the trade group’s conductors, precision bearings and supply. A 60-day supply is consid- trying not to burn through that too SILVER FUTURE (t oz) 34.655 1.58%
senior vice president of industry tires. He estimated that most ered ideal. quickly,” Goss said.