MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

Report Date :

07.03.2007

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Name :

SUNTEC BUSINESS SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED

 

 

Registered Office :

321, Nila, Technopark, Kariavattom, Trivandrum – 6955811, Kerala

 

 

Country :

India

 

 

Financials (as on) :

31.03.2006

 

 

Date of Incorporation :

02.12.1998

 

 

Com. Reg. No.:

09-12638

 

 

CIN No.:

[Company Identification No.]

U74140KL1998PTC012638

 

 

TAN No.:

[Tax Deduction & Collection Account No.]

TVDS1127A

 

 

Legal Form :

Private Limited Liability Company

 

 

Line of Business :

Provide enterprise-wide transaction management solutions for the telecom and financial services industries across the globe

 

 

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 1500000

 

 

Status :

Satisfactory

 

 

Payment Behaviour :

Regular

 

 

Litigation :

Clear

 

 

Comments :

Subject is a well established company and a part of Suntec worldwide. Directors are reported as experienced, respectable and having satisfactory means of their own. Trade relations are reported as fair. Business is active. Payments are reported as usually correct and as per commitments.

 

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

 

 

LOCATIONS

 

Registered Office :

321, Nila, Technopark, Kariavattom, Trivandrum – 6955811, Kerala

Tel. No.:

91-471-2700984/2527600

Fax No.:

91-471-2527138

Email :

sbs@suntecbs.com, sba@suntecgroup.com

Website :

http://www.suntecgroup.com

 

 

DIRECTORS

 

Name :

Mr. Krishnan Nandakumar Nair

Designation :

Managing Director

Address :

TC 5/2526(2), Tkv Nagar, Kavadiar, Trivandrum, Kerala-695041

Date of Birth/Age :

14-06-1961

Date of Appointment :

29.05.2000

 

 

Name :

Ms. Asha Kunjamma Bhagavathy

Designation :

Director

Address :

TC 5/2526(2), Tkv Nagar, Kavadiar, Trivandrum, Kerala-695 041

Date of Birth/Age :

30-05-1964

Date of Appointment :

01.06.2000

 

 

Name :

Mr. Vijayaraghavan pillai Gopala

Designation :

Director

Address :

Lekshmi Priya No.29, Chempaka Nagar, Trivandrum, Kerala-695 001

Date of Birth/Age :

27-03-1957

Date of Appointment :

25.10.2000

 

 

Name :

Mr. Deepak Vaidya Calian

Designation :

Director

Address :

249/251, Walkewhwar Road, Mumbai, Maharashtra-400006

Date of Birth/Age :

09-01-1945

Date of Appointment :

25.10.2000

 

 

Name :

Mr. Rajkumar Rajagopal

Designation :

Director

Address :

73 HUA   Quan Avenue, Singapore-589169

Date of Birth/Age :

07-04-1960

Date of Appointment :

25.10.2000

 


 

KEY EXECUTIVES

 

Name :

Mr. Subramony V.

Designation :

Company Secretary

Address :

TC-37/1050, Gokul, Tippu Street, Attakulagara, P.O.Fort, Trivendrum-695023, Kerala, India

Date of Birth/Age :

24.04.1981

Date of Appointment :

24.02.2006

 

 

MAJOR SHAREHOLDERS / SHAREHOLDING PATTERN

 

Names of Shareholders

 

No. of Shares

Mr. K. Nandakumar Nair

 

18047160

Ms. Asha K B

 

240

Palm Island Limited

 

4214680

VMA Consultants Private Limited

 

43800

 

 

BUSINESS DETAILS

 

Line of Business :

Provide enterprise-wide transaction management solutions for the telecom and financial services industries across the globe

 

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

 

Bankers :

  • Centurion Bank of Punjab
  • HDFC Bank Limited, Trivandrum
  • PNC Bank, USA
  • Canara Bank, Cantonment Branch
  • State Bank Of India, Technopark Branch

 

 

Facilities :

--

 

 

 

Banking Relations :

Satisfactory

 

 

Auditors :

Roy Varghese and Associates

Chartered Accountants

Address :

T. C. III/2332, Ground Floor, Indian Bank Building, Pattom, Palace Junction, Trivandrum – 695004, India

Tel. No.:

91-471-2541174/2541934/2545515

Fax No.:

91-471-2541581

Email :

Jhi@rva-ca.com  / rovas@vsnl.com

 

 

Associates/Subsidiaries :

  • Sun Tec Business Solutions GmbH- Germany
  • Sun Tec Business Solutions Singapore Pte – Singapore
  • Sun Tec Info-Systems Private Limited – Trivandrum
  • Sun Tec Business Solutions Limited – United Kingdom
  • Sun Tec Business Solutions Inc., United States of America
  • V M A Consultants Private Limited

 


 

CAPITAL STRUCTURE

 

Authorised Capital :

No. of Shares

Type

Value

Amount

20000000

Equity Shares

Rs. 10/- each

Rs. 200.000 millions

 

Issued, Subscribed & Paid-up Capital :

No. of Shares

Type

Value

Amount

17892704

Equity Shares

Rs. 10/- each

Rs. 178.927 millions

 


 

FINANCIAL DATA

[all figures are in Rupees Millions]

 

ABRIDGED BALANCE SHEET

 

SOURCES OF FUNDS

 

31.03.2006

31.03.2005

31.03.2004

SHAREHOLDERS FUNDS

 

 

 

1] Share Capital

178.927

178.927

5.591

2] Share Application Money

0.000

0.000

0.000

3] Reserves & Surplus

235.137

183.113

183.881

4] (Accumulated Losses)

0.000

0.000

(15.009)

NETWORTH

414.064

362.040

174.463

LOAN FUNDS

 

 

 

1] Secured Loans

0.000

0.000

0.000

2] Unsecured Loans

0.000

0.000

0.000

TOTAL BORROWING

0.000

0.000

0.000

DEFERRED TAX LIABILITIES

1.065

0.000

0.164

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

415.129

362.040

174.627

 

 

 

 

APPLICATION OF FUNDS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FIXED ASSETS [Net Block]

118.028

19.924

23.476

Capital work-in-progress

0.043

0.000

0.000

 

 

 

 

INVESTMENT

139.631

7.881

7.881

DEFERREX TAX ASSETS

0.000

0.416

0.000

 

 

 

 

CURRENT ASSETS, LOANS & ADVANCES

 

 

 

 
Inventories
0.000
0.000

0.000

 
Sundry Debtors
157.838
80.428

23.478

 
Cash & Bank Balances
147.400
233.858

86.131

 
Other Current Assets
7.867
5.382

4.689

 
Loans & Advances
173.826
105.068

48.554

Total Current Assets
486.931
424.736

162.852

Less : CURRENT LIABILITIES & PROVISIONS
 
 

 

 
Current Liabilities
156.147
67.934

12.829

 
Provisions
173.776
23.541

7.451

Total Current Liabilities
329.923
91.475

20.280

Net Current Assets
157.008
333.261

142.572

 

 

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

0.419

0.558

0.698

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

415.129

362.040

174.627

 


PROFIT & LOSS ACCOUNT

 

PARTICULARS

 

 

31.03.2005

31.03.2004

Sales Turnover [including other income]

 

357.628

148.740

 

 

 

 

Profit/(Loss) Before Tax

 

185.516

26.367

Provision for Taxation

 

12.948

2.575

Profit/(Loss) After Tax

 

172.568

23.792

 

 

 

 

Export Value

 

127.813

122.324

 

 

 

 

Import Value

 

NA

1.926

 

 

 

 

Total Expenditure

 

136.457

120.551

 

KEY RATIOS

 

PARTICULARS

 

 

31.03.2006

31.03.2005

31.03.2004

PAT / Total Income
(%)
NA
48.25

15.99

 
 
 
 

 

Net Profit Margin

(PBT/Sales)

(%)

NA
51.87

17.72

 

 

 
 

 

Return on Total Assets

(PBT/Total Assets}

(%)

NA
41.72

14.15

 

 

 
 

 

Return on Investment (ROI)

(PBT/Networth)

 

NA
0.51

0.15

 

 

 
 

 

Debt Equity Ratio

(Total Liability/Networth)

 

0.80
0.25

0.17

 

 

 
 

 

Current Ratio

(Current Asset/Current Liability)

 

1.47
4.64

8.03

 

 

LOCAL AGENCY FURTHER INFORMATION

 

Fixed assets

 

v      Plant and machinery

v      Furniture and fixtures

v      Office equipment

v      Electrical fittings

v      Kitchen utensils

v      IPR

v      Trademarks

 

The company has received permission from the Government of India to set up a 100% EOU. The company has imported/purchased duty free capital goods of assessable value amounting to Rs. 13.305 millions, under the EOU scheme, and duty foregone on this is Rs. 5.130 millions. The company has a contingent liability on account of the duty foregone in the event of non fulfillment of export obligation.

 

The company has received Kerala State Investment Subsidy, amounting to Rs. 1.309 millions on 07.11.2000 and Rs. 0.027 millions on 18.11.2002, through KSIDC. If the company goes out of commercial production within a period of five years, from the date of receipt of the subsidy, the company has to be refund the same.

 

The company recorded a turnover of Rs. 357.628 millions and a net profit of Rs. 172.567 millions before tax during the year.

 

Website Details Attached:

 

Press Release:

 

Making a point, from the backwaters

 

Vipin V. Nair

 

A software products company claims it's not where you are but what you do that counts.


Nandakumar, President and CEO, SunTec

 

VENTURE capitalists are demanding. And often blunt. More so in these days. But even then, Nandakumar was aghast when the VC in front of him stipulated an outlandish condition: he will get the funds provided he moves his company out of Kerala

 

Nandakumar still can't get over the fact that the VC asked him to shift out of Kerala from where he silently built a small but rapidly growing software product company, SunTec Business Solutions. "He have often been asked how He could have built a company from Thiruvananthapuram. But none has ever been as brusque as this VC,'' he says.

 

The VC must've been afraid of the reputation of Kerala as a State whose economy is in a shambles; as a State which is yet to prove that it too can be a software destination a la its neighbours and as a place where belligerent trade unions hold people to ransom. But given these conditions of the State from where he built his company, Nandakumar's venture must be viewed a derring-do and his entrepreneurial talents very good. And at least one VC has believed so.

 

In the year 2000, international venture capital firm Schroders invested $6 million in the company, marking the first major instance of such funding in the State.

 

What does SunTec do? It is focussed on developing billing solutions for telecom companies and relationship management infrastructure for services such as financial services, utilities and e-commerce. So far it has developed four software products to cater to these areas. Revenues in 2001 stood at $6.3 million, growing at about 120 per cent over the previous year, with 300 employees. All this from a base at Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram, which is still struggling to find a place in India's technology map.

 

"They have faced a huge perception issue as people feel that Thiruvananthapuram is not an IT place where you could do any work. So when they pitch for clients abroad, I will say they are very close to Bangalore,'' Nandakumar, who is the President and Chief Executive Officer of SunTec, says. He must be quite used to that perception issue now. After all, he has been fighting against it for the past 12 years.

 

It was in 1990 that Nandakumar, a post-graduate in Physics and then working with Keltron, decided to found his own company. "The idea of Technopark was being mooted in 1989. I took a five-year leave from my job and started my company.''

 

The first project that he got was to develop a billing system for the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). "I had actually sub-contracted the work from another company which bagged the DoT contract,'' Nandakumar reminisces of SunTec's early days. The project later got extended to other States.

 

That software project later evolved into a software product, <147,1,0>which was handed over to the Telecom Engineering Centre of the DoT. "Even today, they maintain this product. Out of 330 secondary switching areas, it is used in 230, covering 80 per cent of the population in the country'' Nandakumar says.

 

SunTec's international foray came about in 1994. A telecom operator in Malaysia showed interest in a billion system offered by Nandakumar, but not without a rider: it had to be developed in 30 days. "I still remember the day when I completed the system. It was the last day and when I was about to give the command for printing a bill, the printer conked out! As luck would have it, it worked again,'' he says.

 

Singapore-based Unisys came forward in 1995, saying that it was evaluating four projects worldwide and would like to start with SunTec. But things were not easy. Both the firms made joint bids for about 20 projects during 1995-98, but won nil. On the positive side, all these efforts to get projects gave the company a lot of insight and inputs. SunTec bagged its first major contract from Logica of Holland and went to on to add another 5-6 clients. During 1999, when the technology sector was on a roll, Nandakumar was approached by a multinational VC for a total buyout of SunTec. The offer was $35 million, which, had he accepted, would have made him one of the richest individuals in Kerala. "But I did not want to exit completely from the company which I started from scratch.'' The Schroders investment happened afterwards.

 

SunTec currently has operations in the US, the UK, Germany and Singapore. From telecom solutions, it has also branched out into the financial sector and other areas. Its client list includes firms such as Motorola, Belgacom International, KPN Telecom, Elisanet and Finnish Telecom.

 

Has he really faced any issues because he is based in Kerala? "Nothing much. But employee turnover is a very critical issue, especially for a product company like us. Software professionals would not like to be in a place like Thiruvananthapuram when they can go abroad or to bigger cities such as Bangalore. So they have intentionally kept a very low profile lest our people be poached by others. Retaining people is like a guerrilla warfare for us,'' Nandakumar says.

 

Also, being in Kerala means a lot more difficulty in getting experienced people in levels of project managers etc. So the company provides sustained training to the recruits and gives technologically-challenging jobs. "As much as 90 per cent of our people are Keralites who prefer to be with their families rather than venturing out,'' Nandakumar says.

 

Future plans of SunTec are to do aggressive marketing in the Asia-Pacific region and to tap countries in Africa. In order to raise money for this, Nandakumar is planning to go for a second round of VC funding, worth $5-10 million. Hopefully, he will soon find a VC who likes Kerala

 

Sobha Renaissance Information Technology (SRIT) and SunTec Business Solutions bag multi-million dollar project from Batelco.


Bangalore based Sobha Renaissance Information Technology (SRIT) and SunTec Business Solutions have been chosen by Bahrain Telecommunications Company (Batelco), the prestigious telecommunications operator in the Middle East, to implement SunTec's complete billing solution, TBMS. Sealing the partnership, an agreement was recently signed between Batelco, SRIT and SunTec.


SRIT and SunTec add a feather to their well-plumed caps with this project, for Batelco has a reputation of providing world-class telecommunication and information services to its customers - practically the entire population of Bahrain. Its track record for growth has been impressive since its incorporation in 1981 and its average financial performance over the last decade has blazed the charts with double-digit profit growths. It holds the enviable reputation of being the first telecom company in the Middle East to receive the ISO9002 Certificate of Quality from the British Standards Institute. Among its esteemed shareholders, Batelco counts the Government of Bahrain, Bahraini and GCC citizens, quasi-government institutions, leading financial and commercial organisations and Cable & Wireless (U.K.). Batelco's fixed line operation offers a wide array of products and services-mobile, Internet, International Direct Dialing (IDD), National Telephony (local telephone service), pre-paid calling cards, Home Direct, Bahrain Direct, Freelink (toll-free access), public payphones, voice mail, and caller line identification.


Speaking on the occasion, GM Customer Services of Batelco A.Wahid Zainal lauded the versatility, flexibility and scalability of TBMS with confidence that it would take care of Batelco's present and future requirements. "They chose TBMS after carefully scrutinizing all existing products in the market. Fortunately TBMS covers functionality like interconnect which will ensure that they don't have to invest separately for it."


MD & CEO of SRIT, Dr. Madhu Nambiar and CEO of SunTec, Mr. Nandakumar, expressed their pleasure and optimism on this development. "They are proud to add a distinguished company like Batelco to our growing clientele. The company is considered a harbinger of operations and technology in this region of the world and they are sure this partnership will help them enhance customer satisfaction. They always believed that TBMS is unique and they are happy that it has been chosen from amongst all the leading products of the world."

At SRIT and SunTec, implementation of the project is in full swing under the personal supervision of their CEOs., driven by the energetic Dr. Madhu Nambiar, is an SEI-CMM Level 5 company involved in software development, systems integration and IT consulting. With state-of-the-art development centres in Bangalore, SRIT manages complex system integration projects across the globe. It has direct operating branches & associates in North America, Germany, Australia, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait and east-African countries. With Batelco as a valued client, SRIT has included an office in Bahrain amongst its list of customer proximity centers. The Bahrain office can be reached at the following address: Sobha Renaissance Information Technology Private Limited, P.O. Box 1404, Manama, Bahrain.


Trivandrum-headquartered SunTec is a market leader in providing total and innovative billing, customer care and transaction management solutions. As an ISO 9001 certified company, it can boast of a clientele comprising of some of the big players in the global telecommunications and financial sectors, which support more than 100 million subscribers. With a customer base that spans APAC and Europe, SunTec's strategic solutions and systems integration partners include titans like LogicaCMG, IBM, HP, Wipro, Pioneer, Sobha Renaissance and Tata Infotech. A dedicated R & D team continuously experiments with emerging technologies, ensuring that SunTec solutions place clients way ahead of their competition.

 

SunTec tool for Bahrain co

 

Bureau            

 

BANGALORE: SunTec Business Solutions and Sobha Renaissance Information Technology (SRIT) have been chosen by Bahrain Telecommunications Company (Batelco), telecommunications operator in West Asia, to implement SunTec's complete billing solution, TBMS.

 

An agreement was recently signed between Batelco, SRIT and SunTec.

 


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 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.44.44

UK Pound

1

Rs.85.89

Euro

1

Rs.58.54

 

 

SCORE & RATING EXPLANATIONS

 

SCORE FACTORS

 

RANGE

POINTS

HISTORY

1~10

6

PAID-UP CAPITAL

1~10

6

OPERATING SCALE

1~10

6

FINANCIAL CONDITION

 

 

--BUSINESS SCALE

1~10

5

--PROFITABILIRY

1~10

4

--LIQUIDITY

1~10

6

--LEVERAGE

1~10

6

--RESERVES

1~10

5

--CREDIT LINES

1~10

5

--MARGINS

-5~5

--

DEMERIT POINTS

 

 

--BANK CHARGES

YES/NO

YES

--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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