MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

Report Date :

16.07.2007

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Name :

INDIA CARD TECHNOLOGY PRIVATE LIMITED

 

 

Registered Office :

8, Commercial Complex, Masjid Moth, Greater Kailash - II, New Delhi - 110 048

 

 

Country :

India

 

 

Financials (as on) :

31.03.2006

 

 

Date of Incorporation :

10.06.2004

 

 

Com. Reg. No.:

55-126863

 

 

CIN No.:

[Company Identification No.]

U64202DL2004PTC126863

 

 

TAN No.:

[Tax Deduction & Collection Account No.]

DELI05950A

 

 

PAN No.:

[Permanent Account No.]

AABCI3740B

 

 

Legal Form :

Private Limited Liability Company

 

 

Line of Business :

Manufacturer of SIM Cards and Smart Cards.

 

 

RATING & COMMENTS

 

MIRA’s Rating :

Ba

 

RATING

STATUS

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

41-55

Ba

Overall operation is considered normal. Capable to meet normal commitments.

Satisfactory

 

Maximum Credit Limit :

USD 4000

 

 

Status :

Satisfactory

 

 

Payment Behaviour :

Regular

 

 

Litigation :

Clear

 

 

Comments :

Subject is a well-established and reputed company having satisfactory track. Directors are reported as experienced and respectable businessmen. Trade relations are reported as fair. Business is active. Payments are usually correct and as per commitments.

 

The company can be considered normal for business dealings at usual trade terms and conditions.

 

 

LOCATIONS

 

Registered Office / Corporate Office / Factory :

8, Commercial Complex, Masjid Moth, Greater Kailash - II, New Delhi - 110 048, India

Tel. No.:

91-11-30689050 / 29217602 / 29224438 / 30689047

Fax No.:

91-11-29223673 / 29224448 / 30689013

E-Mail :

sales@indiacard.co.in

kalra@indiacard.co.in

gupta@indiacard.co.in

contact@indiacard.co.in

info@indiacard.co.in

sales@indiacard.co.in

Website :

http://www.indiacard.co.in

 

 

Branches :

25, Tanah Merah Kechil Avenue, Singapore - 465 640

Tel. No.:

65-92477742

Fax No.:

65-62429532

 

 

Branches :

Uplands Cottage, Four Ashes Road, Cryers Hill, Bucks, HP15 6LG, United Kingdom

Tel. No.:

44-7717 436000

Fax No.:

44-1494 712324

 

 

Branches :

Suite 21, 5 River Road, Wilton, CT 06897, USA

Tel. No.:

1 203 563 9900

Fax No.:

1 203 563 9832

 

 

DIRECTORS

 

Name :

Mr. Ishaq Aman Shawl

Designation :

Director

Address :

B-705, Beverely Park – I, Gurgaon – 122002, Haryana, India

Date of Birth/Age :

03.03.1963

Date of Appointment :

10.06.2004

 

 

Name :

Mr. Nicholasa Charles Robb

Designation :

Director

Address :

# 806, 1228 West, Ave, Florida 33139, USA

Date of Birth/Age :

19.05.1957

Date of Appointment :

10.06.2004

Date of Casing :

24.05.2005

 

 

Name :

Mr. Mahendra Nahata

Designation :

Director

Address :

W-48, Greater Kailash – III, New Delhi – 110048, India

Date of Birth/Age :

19.05.1959

Date of Appointment :

24.05.2005

 

 

Name :

Mr. Sanjay Maloo

Designation :

Director

Address :

B/21, Shrvapriya Vihar, New Delhi – 110017, India

smaloo@hfcl.com

Date of Birth/Age :

07.08.1969

Date of Appointment :

24.05.2005

 

 

Name :

Mr. Subodh Kumar Garg

Designation :

Director

Address :

24, Vigyan Lok, Delhi – 110092, India

Date of Birth/Age :

01.01.1951

Date of Appointment :

24.05.2005

 

 

Name :

Mr. Carl Taylor

Designation :

Director

Address :

Uplands Cottage, Four Ashes Road, Cryers Hills, Bucks, HP156LG, UK

Date of Birth/Age :

06.01.1961

Date of Appointment :

24.05.2005

 

 

Name :

Mr. ED Danson

Designation :

Director

Address :

Deers Leap, Bubwith Farm, Wookey Hole, BA51BA, UK

Date of Birth/Age :

10.06.1948

Date of Appointment :

24.05.2005

 

 

Name :

Mr. Grahame Lucas

Designation :

Director

 

 

MAJOR SHAREHOLDERS / SHAREHOLDING PATTERN

 

Names of Shareholders

 

No. of Shares

Ishaq Aman Shawl

 

10000

R. K. Khosla

 

100

 

 

 

Equity Share Breakup

 

 

Category

 

Percentage of Holding

Foreign holdings [Foreign institutional investors, Foreign Companies, Foreign Financial Institutions, Non-resident Indian or Overseas corporate bodies or others]

 

48.00

Bodies corporate

 

9.00

Directors of relatives of directors

 

43.00

Total

 

100.00

 


 

BUSINESS DETAILS

 

Line of Business :

Manufacturer of SIM Cards and Smart Cards.

 

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

 

Bankers :

  • Jammu and Kashmir Bank
  • State Bank of India

 

 

Facilities :

--

 

 

 

Banking Relations :

Satisfactory

 

 

Auditors :

 

Name :

Chaturvedi and Company

Chartered Accountants

Address :

405-407, Chiranjivi Tower, 43 Nehru Place, New Delhi – 110019, India

 

 

Joint Venture :

v      iCard Technologies

v      Himachal Futuristic Communications Limited

 

 

CAPITAL STRUCTURE

 

As on 30.09.2006

 

Authorised Capital :

No. of Shares

Type

Value

Amount

1,000,000

Equity Shares

Rs. 10/- each

Rs. 10.000 Millions

 

Issued, Subscribed & Paid-up Capital :

No. of Shares

Type

Value

Amount

21000

Equity Shares

Rs. 10/- each

Rs. 0.210 Million

 

 


 

FINANCIAL DATA

[all figures are in Rupees Millions]

 

 

ABRIDGED BALANCE SHEET

 

SOURCES OF FUNDS

 

 

31.03.2006

31.03.2005

SHAREHOLDERS FUNDS

 

 

 

1] Share Capital

 

0.101

0.101

2] Share Application Money

 

0.920

0.000

3] Reserves & Surplus

 

0.000

0.000

4] (Accumulated Losses)

 

0.000

0.000

NETWORTH

 

1.021

0.101

LOAN FUNDS

 

 

 

1] Secured Loans

 

0.000

0.000

2] Unsecured Loans

 

0.000

0.000

TOTAL BORROWING

 

0.000

0.000

DEFERRED TAX LIABILITIES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

 

1.021

0.101

 

 

 

 

APPLICATION OF FUNDS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FIXED ASSETS [Net Block]

 

0.000

0.000

Capital work-in-progress

 

0.000

0.000

 

 

 

 

INVESTMENT

 

0.000

0.000

DEFERREX TAX ASSETS

 

0.000

0.000

 

 

 

 

CURRENT ASSETS, LOANS & ADVANCES

 

 

 

 

Inventories

 

0.000

0.000

 

Sundry Debtors

 

0.000

0.000

 

Cash & Bank Balances

 

0.865

0.001

 

Other Current Assets

 

0.000

0.000

 

Loans & Advances

 

0.000

0.000

Total Current Assets

 

0.865

0.001

Less : CURRENT LIABILITIES & PROVISIONS

 

 

 

 

Current Liabilities

 

0.109

0.099

 

Provisions

 

0.000

0.000

Total Current Liabilities

 

0.109

0.099

Net Current Assets

 

0.756

[0.098]

 

 

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

 

0.265

0.199

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

 

1.021

0.101

 

PROFIT & LOSS ACCOUNT

 

PARTICULARS

 

 

31.03.2006

31.03.2005

Expenditures :

 

 

 

 

Auditor Fee

 

0.022

0.011

 

Bank Charges

 

0.001

0.000

 

Book and Periodicals

 

0.007

0.000

 

Freight

 

0.005

0.000

 

Insurance

 

0.015

0.000

 

Legal and Professional Charges

 

0.018

0.000

 

Rates and Taxes

 

0.001

0.000

 

Filing Fees

 

0.006

0.000

 

Communication Expenses

 

0.002

0.000

Total Expenditure

 

0.077

0.011

 

KEY RATIOS

 

PARTICULARS

 

 

 

31.03.2006

31.03.2005

Debt Equity Ratio

(Total Liability/Networth)

 

 

0.11

0.98

 

 

 

 

 

Current Ratio

(Current Asset/Current Liability)

 

 

7.94

0.01

 

 

LOCAL AGENCY FURTHER INFORMATION

 

The Registered Office of the company has been shifted from S - 7, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi - 110017, India to the present address w.e.f. 02.11.2006

 

PROFILE

 

Mission Statement

 

“iCard provides smart card solutions from manufacturing through to software from its production facility in India. By adding as much value as possible in India and minimizing overheads, iCard is set up to meet the needs of the price sensitive world wide market for high quality smart cards. A flexible approach to products and service allows customers to tailor solutions to their needs.”

 

About IndiaCard and it Partners

 

India Card is a joint venture between Himachal Futuristic Communications Limited (HFCL) and iCard Technologies Limited trading under the name iCard Technology. These two partners have come together and established a state of the art manufacturing facility in Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India in the clean air of the foothills of the Himalayas.


HFCL is a major Indian telecoms manufacturing company supplying solutions to the local communications market and iCard Technologies Limited is a venture company providing smart card intellectual property and worldwide sales and marketing expertise.


iCard provides a range of smart card products from smart card manufacturing through to software solutions for the telecom, banking and identification markets worldwide. By partnering with technology leaders, iCard is able to provide a range of state of the art solutions to meet the needs of all industry verticals. iCard’s no-nonsense approach to products and doing business aims to make it simple for customers to tailor their solution to their exact requirements, wherever they are in the world.

 

Manufacturing Facility

 

Their aim is to provide best in class quality with minimum overheads to meet the needs of this very price sensitive market.

A secure, dedicated facility in Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India has been set up with an initial optimum capacity of 50M cards per year. Solan is located in the foothills of the Himalayas approximately 250km North of New Delhi, India and the plant is certified to ISO 9001/2000. The factory takes care of full production from printed plastic through to personalization, printing and GSM punch and is equipped with new, state of the art equipment from Muehlbauer of Germany and NBS of France.

 

Product Philosophy

 

iCard offers a full range of products for both smart card users and smart card companies. Their customers are able to choose from contract manufacturing services only to full turnkey solutions as required.


Software solutions are available for:

 

Tulip Connect Family for telecom – GSM SIM (2/2.5G, 3G), CDMA R-UIM

Tulip Tag Family for e-Governance and Transportation – National ID (SCOSTA), SCOSTA compliant Driving License and Vehicle Registration Certificates, Ration Cards

Tulip Vault Family for Banking – EMV

 

Multiple silicon platforms have been used to achieve the optimum price performance and minimize risks in the supply chain.

 

MANAGEMENT TEAM

 

Mahendra Nahata, Chairman

 

“Mr. Mahendra Nahata, aged 44, is a commerce graduate from Calcutta University. He has more than 18 years’ business experience. He provides HFCL with strategic guidance as well as mentoring to the top Management. Mr. Nahata is the visionary behind the HFCL Group’s R&D, technology partnership, business development and marketing initiatives. Mr. Nahata has played a pivotal role in the development of a variety of indigenous telecom products and was instrumental in forging alliances in R&D and technology. Mr. Nahata was conferred with Telecom Man of the Millennium Award in year 2001 for his contributions to the telecom sector.

 

Grahame Lucas, CEO

 

Mr. Lucas has 20 years sales and marketing experience in the Semiconductor industry including 7 years with Intel UK, 3 years with Motorola Germany and 4 years with IBM UK. Most

 

Precently, he was a co-founder of Emosyn LLC, a fabless semiconductor company in the smart card and security markets, responsible for worldwide sales and marketing. During his tenure at Emosyn, Mr. Lucas was located first in Europe, followed by a period at the Connecticut headquarters and most recently in Singapore. He set up the Emosyn sales organization which grew the business to $40M in 2004.

 

S K Garg, Director

 

Mr. S. K. Garg, aged 55 years, completed his engineering graduation from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee and engineering post- graduation degree from the

 

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He has more than 30 years of experience in R&D, Projects and Business Development.Prior to joining HFCL in 1992, he was working with Bharat Electronics Limited and Alcatel. Mr. Garg is responsible for Business Development, which includes introduction of new technologies and partnerships, addressing major tenders and supporting marketing and R&D teams on technology and market needs.

Sanjay Maloo, Director

 

Mr. Sanjay Maloo, aged 36 years, graduated from Calcutta University in with a degree in Commerce. He has been into business for the past 13 years and during this period he has been the Director of companies involved in various fields such as Financial Services and Investment Banking, Mutual Funds, Tea Manufacturing etc. He has mainly been spearheading the financial activities of these companies and has been dealing with Banks and Financial Institutions for the same. He has also been the Trustee of PIONEER ITI MUTUAL FUND for a period of about three years.

 

Carl Taylor, Finance Director

 

Mr. Taylor qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1987 and has a BSc Honors in Finance and Accounting. He is experienced as a finance director to several companies as well as in audit and management consultancy. Prior to working with iCard he was spent the recent years as Finance Director of Central Europe Trust and of a telecommunications system company.

 

Vidur Anand, Head - Smart Card Sales

 

Mr. Anand

 

Vivek Gupta, Head - Telecom Sales

 

Mr. Gupta is an Electronics Engineering Graduate from the Regional Engineering College, Allahabad. He has over 12 years of sales experience of Paging, Cellular industry &

 

GSM Sim sales. At Indiacard, Mr. Gupta is responsible for Sales in India and International Mkt.

Archana Kalra,

 

AVP Marketing & Technical Support

 

Ms. Kalra graduated in batch engineering, before starting her career with the planning department of the Electricity board, followed by sales and

 

Marketing of Security systems and telephone exchanges. Since 1997 Ms. Kalra has worked in business development for networking products, sales and marketing of Datacard range of products and solutions, and DGM - Marketing of Smart cards. Ms. Kalra has a comprehensive understanding of Indian Smart Card market, and will be responsible for marketing and technical support for India Card in India and the international market. ”

PRODUCTS

 

A secure, dedicated facility in Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India has been set up with an initial optimum capacity of 50M cards per year. Solan is located in the foothills of the Himalayas approximately 250km North of New Delhi, India and the plant is certified to ISO 9001/2000. The factory takes care of full production from printed plastic through to personalization, printing and GSM punch and is equipped with new, state of the art equipment from Muehlbauer of Germany and NBS of France.

 

Telecom - Tulip CONNECT

 

for telecom – GSM SIM (2/2.5G, 3G), CDMA R-UIM.

 

GSM SIM product range

WIB on SIM iMP

IScript for SIM iMP

 

Identity - Tulip TAG


for e-Governance and Transportation – National ID (SCOSTA), SCOSTA compliant Driving License and Vehicle Registration Certificates, Ration Cards.

 

National ID Cards

Vehicle Registration Certificates

Driving Licences

Smart Passports

Access Control

Time Attendance

Health Card

Campus/Barracks Card

 

 

Banking - Tulip Vault

 

Tulip Vault Family for Banking – EMV

EMV Cards

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


CMT REPORT (Corruption, Money Laundering & Terrorism]

 

The Public Notice information has been collected from various sources including but not limited to: The Courts, India Prisons Service, Interpol, etc.

 

1]         INFORMATION ON DESIGNATED PARTY

No records exist designating subject or any of its beneficial owners, controlling shareholders or senior officers as terrorist or terrorist organization or whom notice had been received that all financial transactions involving their assets have been blocked or convicted, found guilty or against whom a judgement or order had been entered in a proceedings for violating money-laundering, anti-corruption or bribery or international economic or anti-terrorism sanction laws or whose assets were seized, blocked, frozen or ordered forfeited for violation of money laundering or international anti-terrorism laws.

 

2]         Court Declaration :

No records exist to suggest that subject is or was the subject of any formal or informal allegations, prosecutions or other official proceeding for making any prohibited payments or other improper payments to government officials for engaging in prohibited transactions or with designated parties.

 

3]         Asset Declaration :

No records exist to suggest that the property or assets of the subject are derived from criminal conduct or a prohibited transaction.

 

4]         Record on Financial Crime :

            Charges or conviction registered against subject:                                                  None

 

5]         Records on Violation of Anti-Corruption Laws :

            Charges or investigation registered against subject:                                                          None

 

6]         Records on Int’l Anti-Money Laundering Laws/Standards :

            Charges or investigation registered against subject:                                                          None

 

7]         Criminal Records

No available information exist that suggest that subject or any of its principals have been formally charged or convicted by a competent governmental authority for any financial crime or under any formal investigation by a competent government authority for any violation of anti-corruption laws or international anti-money laundering laws or standard.

 

8]         Affiliation with Government :

No record exists to suggest that any director or indirect owners, controlling shareholders, director, officer or employee of the company is a government official or a family member or close business associate of a Government official.

 

9]         Compensation Package :

Our market survey revealed that the amount of compensation sought by the subject is fair and reasonable and comparable to compensation paid to others for similar services.

 

10]        Press Report :

            No press reports / filings exists on the subject.

 

 

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

 

MIRA INFORM as part of its Due Diligence do provide comments on Corporate Governance to identify management and governance. These factors often have been predictive and in some cases have created vulnerabilities to credit deterioration.

 

Our Governance Assessment focuses principally on the interactions between a company’s management, its Board of Directors, Shareholders and other financial stakeholders.

 

 

CONTRAVENTION

 

Subject is not known to have contravened any existing local laws, regulations or policies that prohibit, restrict or otherwise affect the terms and conditions that could be included in the agreement with the subject.

 

 

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

 

Currency

Unit

Indian Rupees

US Dollar

1

Rs.40.37

UK Pound

1

Rs.82.18

Euro

1

Rs.55.67

 

 

SCORE & RATING EXPLANATIONS

 

SCORE FACTORS

 

RANGE

POINTS

HISTORY

1~10

5

PAID-UP CAPITAL

1~10

5

OPERATING SCALE

1~10

5

FINANCIAL CONDITION

 

 

--BUSINESS SCALE

1~10

6

--PROFITABILIRY

1~10

4

--LIQUIDITY

1~10

5

--LEVERAGE

1~10

5

--RESERVES

1~10

5

--CREDIT LINES

1~10

5

--MARGINS

-5~5

-

DEMERIT POINTS

 

 

--BANK CHARGES

YES/NO

NO

--LITIGATION

YES/NO

NO

--OTHER ADVERSE INFORMATION

YES/NO

NO

MERIT POINTS

 

 

--SOLE DISTRIBUTORSHIP

YES/NO

NO

--EXPORT ACTIVITIES

YES/NO

NO

--AFFILIATION

YES/NO

YES

--LISTED

YES/NO

NO

--OTHER MERIT FACTORS

YES/NO

YES

TOTAL

 

45

 

This score serves as a reference to assess SC’s credit risk and to set the amount of credit to be extended. It is calculated from a composite of weighted scores obtained from each of the major sections of this report. The assessed factors and their relative weights (as indicated through %) are as follows:

 

Financial condition (40%)            Ownership background (20%)                 Payment record (10%)

Credit history (10%)                    Market trend (10%)                                Operational size (10%)

 


 

RATING EXPLANATIONS

 

RATING

STATUS

 

 

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

>86

Aaa

Possesses an extremely sound financial base with the strongest capability for timely payment of interest and principal sums

 

Unlimited

71-85

Aa

Possesses adequate working capital. No caution needed for credit transaction. It has above average (strong) capability for payment of interest and principal sums

 

Large

56-70

A

Financial & operational base are regarded healthy. General unfavourable factors will not cause fatal effect. Satisfactory capability for payment of interest and principal sums

 

Fairly Large

41-55

Ba

Overall operation is considered normal. Capable to meet normal commitments.

 

Satisfactory

26-40

B

Unfavourable & favourable factors carry similar weight in credit consideration. Capability to overcome financial difficulties seems comparatively below average/normal.

 

Small

11-25

Ca

Adverse factors are apparent. Repayment of interest and principal sums in default or expected to be in default upon maturity

 

Limited with full security

<10

C

Absolute credit risk exists. Caution needed to be exercised

 

 

Credit not recommended

NR

In view of the lack of information, we have no basis upon which to recommend credit dealings

No Rating

 

 

 

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