Tuesday, 4 October 2011

LG Hikes Prices of Laptops, Washing Machines, CTVs

NEW DELHI LG Electronics India increased prices of its laptops, monitors and optical disk drives by 6% and front loading washing machines, microwave ovens, refrigerators and colour televisions by 3% due to weakening of the Indian Rupee. The consumer goods maker on Tuesday said the impact of weakening of the Rupee was around 8-10% because it imported most of the components such as monitor panels, used in making these products, from Korea and China. However, prices of flat panel television sets, mobile phone and air-conditioners remain unchanged. The company’s product group head for IT Sanjoy Bhattacharya said: “Due to continuous Rupee depreciation, it has become imperative for us to consider the price hike in India. Though we have been absorbing the increase in cost but it will become difficult to avoid this change in the market prices.” LG recently launched laptops at a price range of . 26,000 to . 66,780. It sells monitors in the range of . 6,500 to . 16,000.

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