MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

Report Date :

11.09.2007

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Name :

C AHEAD INFO TECHNOLOGIES INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED

 

 

Registered Office :

Fazal Manor, 2nd Floor, # 89 Richmond Road, Bangalore – 560025, Karnataka

 

 

Country :

India

 

 

Financials (as on) :

31.03.2005

 

 

Date of Incorporation :

25.08.2004

 

 

Com. Reg. No.:

08-34575

 

 

CIN No.:

[Company Identification No.]

U72900KA2004PTC034575

 

 

TAN No.:

[Tax Deduction & Collection Account No.]

BLRC06346E

 

 

PAN No.:

[Permanent Account No.]

AACCC6167D

 

 

Legal Form :

Private Limited Liability Company

 

 

Line of Business :

Subject is engaged in the business of providing of IT Solutions, Consulting an BPOL Solutions services. 

 

 

RATING & COMMENTS

 

MIRA’s Rating :

Ca

 

RATING

STATUS

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

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

 

Maximum Credit Limit :

USD 300

 

 

Status :

Moderate

 

 

Payment Behaviour :

Slow

 

 

Litigation :

Clear

 

 

Comments :

Subject is a 3 year old company and in the process of establishing itself. As per last available financials of 31.03.2005, the company had incurred some initial losses.

 

Management declined to part with latest financials. Payments are reported as slow and delayed.

 

The company can be considered for small business dealings on safe and secured trade terms and conditions, only.

 

 

LOCATIONS

 

Registered Office :

Fazal Manor, 2nd Floor, 89 Richmond Road, Bangalore – 560025, Karnataka, India

Tel. No.:

91-80-41828888

Fax No.:

91-80-41828801

E-Mail :

info@caheas.com

Website :

http://www.cahead.com

Area :

Commercial

 

 

Head Office :

403 / 404,, 2nd Floor Chord Road Plaza, 20th Main, 1st Block, Rajaji Nagar, Bangalore – 560010, Karnataka, India

Tel. No.:

91-80-41828888

Fax No.:

91-80-41828801

 

 

DIRECTORS

 

Name :

Mrs. Bindu Sandeep

Designation :

Managing Director

Address :

No. 1174, 12th Main, 2nd Stage, Nagapura, Mahalaxmipuram, Bangalore – 560086, Karnataka, India 

Date of Birth/Age :

34 Years

Date of Appointment :

25.08.2004

 

 

Name :

Mr. Chandrashekar Achar

Designation :

Director

Address :

No. 1174, 12th Main, 2nd Stage, Nagapura, Mahalaxmipuram, Bangalore – 560086, Karnataka, India 

Date of Birth/Age :

60 Years

Date of Appointment :

25.08.2004

 

 

Name :

Mr. Sandeep Sekhar

Designation :

Director

Date of Birth/Age :

34 Years

 

 

Name :

Mr. Chari Murli

Designation :

COO and Director

Date of Birth/Age :

44 Years

 

 

MAJOR SHAREHOLDERS / SHAREHOLDING PATTERN

 

Names of Shareholders

No. of Shares

Percentage of Holding

Mrs. Bindu Sandeep

9000

90.00

Mr. Chandrashekar Achar

1000

10.000

Total

10000

100.00

 

 

BUSINESS DETAILS

 

Line of Business :

Subject is engaged in the business of providing of IT Solutions, Consulting an BPOL Solutions services. 

 

 

Services  :

Consulting

 

Business process re-engineering

IT Strategy consulting

Application portfolio analysis

Business Continuity planning and disaster recovery planning

Strategic IT solutioning

Planning

Development

Management

IT Parks

 

IT Solutions

 

Outsourced Application Services

Enterprise Services

Consulting Services

BPO Services Call Center And Contact Center Services

Technical Support Center And Infrastructure Management Service

Contractor Cell Services

 

BPO Solutions

 

Capturing data

Storing data

Indexing data

Retrieval

Access to data

 

Enterprise Services

 

Packaged Applications

Supply Chain Management (SCM)

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Strategic Technology and Architecture Consulting

Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

Migration and Deployment

Enterprise Portal

 

 

Exports :

 

Countries :

Services provided to U.S. and South Africa

 

 

Imports :

 

Products :

Equipments

Countries :

Korea

 

 

Terms :

 

Services Provided :

50 % advance and 50 % milestone based payment

 

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

 

Customers :

MNC’s [Overseas]

 

 

No. of Employees :

Around 240

 

 

Bankers :

  • ABN Amro, Residency Road
  • HDFC, Richmond Road Branch 

 

 

Facilities :

HDFC – 10.000 Million dollar project

 

 

 

Banking Relations :

Satisfactory

 

 

Auditors :

 

Name :

AAGJ and Company

Chartered Accountants

10/1, 2nd Floor, 3rd Main, Hanumanthnagar, Bangalore – 560019, Karnataka, India

 

E. Venkateshwar Prasad and Company

Chartered Accountants

Tel No.: 91-80-23238295

 

 

Associates/Subsidiaries :

C Ahead Info Technologies Africa Private Limited

 

Address : South Africa

Line of Business : Subject is engaged in the business of providing of IT Solutions, Consulting an BPOL Solutions services. 

 


 

CAPITAL STRUCTURE

 

Authorised Capital :

No. of Shares

Type

Value

Amount

50,000

Equity Shares

Rs. 10/- each

Rs. 0.500 Million

 

As on 12th March 2007

 

Issued, Subscribed & Paid-up Capital :

No. of Shares

Type

Value

Amount

50,000

Equity Shares

Rs. 10/- each

Rs. 0.500 Million

 

 

FINANCIAL DATA

[all figures are in Rupees Millions]

 

 

ABRIDGED BALANCE SHEET

 

SOURCES OF FUNDS

 

 

 

31.03.2005

SHAREHOLDERS FUNDS

 

 

 

1] Share Capital

 

 

0.100

2] Share Application Money

 

 

0.000

3] Reserves & Surplus

 

 

0.000

4] (Accumulated Losses)

 

 

[0.015]

NETWORTH

 

 

0.085

LOAN FUNDS

 

 

 

1] Secured Loans

 

 

0.000

2] Unsecured Loans

 

 

0.000

TOTAL BORROWING

 

 

0.000

DEFERRED TAX LIABILITIES

 

 

0.000

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

 

 

0.085

 

 

 

 

APPLICATION OF FUNDS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FIXED ASSETS [Net Block]

 

 

0.000

Capital work-in-progress

 

 

0.000

 

 

 

 

CURRENT ASSETS, LOANS & ADVANCES

 

 

 

 

Inventories

 

 

0.000

 

Sundry Debtors

 

 

0.000

 

Cash & Bank Balances

 

 

0.070

 

Other Current Assets

 

 

0.000

 

Loans & Advances

 

 

0.000

Total Current Assets

 

 

0.070

Less : CURRENT LIABILITIES & PROVISIONS

 

 

 

 

Current Liabilities

 

 

0.009

 

Provisions

 

 

 

Total Current Liabilities

 

 

0.009

Net Current Assets

 

 

0.061

 

 

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

 

 

0.024

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

 

 

0.085

 

 

PROFIT & LOSS ACCOUNT

 

PARTICULARS

 

31.03.2007

31.03.2006

31.03.2005

Profit/(Loss) Before Tax

Around 25.000

Around 4.700

[0.015]

Provision for Taxation

 

 

--

Profit/(Loss) After Tax

 

 

[0.015]

 

 

 

 

Expenditures :

 

 

 

Total Expenditure

 

 

0.015

 

Expected Sales (2007-08) : Around Rs. 40.000 Millions

 

KEY RATIOS

 

PARTICULARS

 

 

 

 

31.03.2005

Return on Total Assets

(PBT/Total Assets}

 

 

 

[15.96]

 

 

 

 

 

Return on Investment (ROI)

(PBT/Networth)

 

 

 

[17.65]

 

 

 

 

 

Quick Ratio

 

 

 

7.78

 

 

 

 

 

Current Ratio

(Current Asset/Current Liability)

 

 

 

7.78

 

 

 

 

 

Current Liabilities / Networth

 

 

 

0.11

 

 

LOCAL AGENCY FURTHER INFORMATION

 

 

Trade Reference

 

  • Wipro Technologies, Bangalore
  • Accenture Services, Bangalore
  • Oracle Systems, US

 

 

AS PER WEBSITE       

Overview

  • C Ahead Technologies India Private Limited is an end-to-end IT Services organization servicing all the IT & ITES needs of its global clients under one roof.
  • C Ahead Technologies was floated by a group of IT Veterans from Top MNC’s such as Accenture, SAP and Wipro with proven experience in the IT Arena.
  • C Ahead Technologies is a global organization with offices in Bangalore-India, California - USA and Pacific Rim.
  • Presently the company employees more than 240 Employees in various skill areas.
  • C Ahead Technologies has vast experience in the areas of Business Consulting, Process Reengineering, Package Implementation, Training and Staff Augmentation.

Company History


C Ahead Technologies was established in 2000 by a group of IT veterans who came from various global IT giants such as SAP, Wipro and Accenture. Head quartered in Bangalore, India. C Ahead Technologies began in a small way by winning few small business opportunities and moved on to work with Fortune 500 Companies such as ABB, GE and so on. Today they have grown from a five member organization to a 240+ strong team and have achieved key mile stone all along.

 


Management Team

Mr. Sandeep Sekhar:  An engineer and masters in international marketing and veteran of IT industry with 17 Years of excellent track record in IT Operations and new business generation. Sandeep has been at senior levels with top brands such as Accenture, SAP and Wipro. He has been in instrumental roles with Accenture's India Delivery Center for GDCN that is 8000 plus strong work force now, and driven growth and strategy that built a strong Indian IT team catering to over 50 plus Fortune 500 clients. In his experience with SAP he was part of many business transformations, built organizations & business successfully and been part of many successful SAP roll-outs.


Sandeep has been global head for marketing and alliances with Wipro and has been very successful in creating a global alliance strategy with all leading product vendors in US and Europe that provided excellent growth to Wipro globally. Sandeep has successfully created new markets, newer technology delivery excellence and experienced in human capital management.

 

                       
Ms. Bindu (Managing Director): A master in Human Resource Management and Economics with 17 Years of experience in business management and IT Operations. Bindu has worked with some of the major organizations at management level such as Lycos Asia, Astra IDL, Enron and OKS Germany. She has been instrumental in transforming internal business processes to successful business transformation in all the organizations. She has been actively involved with international multi-complexity projects and built Lycos Asia in India. Over the years she has built exceptional skills in Human Capital Management, Sales and orgainsational building.

           
Mr. Chari Murli (COO and Director): A Master in Nuclear Physics with 20 Years of IT Operations and Package Implementation experience. He has been associated with brands such as Accenture and Wipro. He has been instrumental in building strong delivery platforms, practices and human capital management in almost all technologies. He has implemented many SAP end to end projects and transformed Wipro's internal practice to a SAP Platform. Has managed many practices and managed over more than 3000 people in his career and been part of IT journey since 1985 globally. Murli has vast experience in European markets with many large fortune companies as his clients. He comes with strong experience and commitment to quality, CMM and six-sigma in business.

Alliances

C Ahead Technologies chooses to work with alliance partners with best in class technologies in specific industries to develop business solutions for its clients. Their focus will continue to develop and delivery technology leading solutions by working with their alliance partners.

C Ahead Technologies recommendation to the client is based solely on what is best for the client and insures the best total cost of ownership for the client. C Ahead Technologies does not solicit or accept any influence or marketing assistance fees from any of its alliance partners.

C Ahead Technologies Alliances can be characterized as:


Marketing Alliances

C Ahead Technologies C Ahead technologies with its alliance partners jointly develop, sell and deliver business solutions with its Strategic global deliver model and the alliance partner's technology and services which leverages C Ahead's industrial, functional and technical expertise.

Technology Alliances

C- ahead Technologies C Ahead Technologies works with an alliance partner in order to build technical competency in the alliance partner's technology through training and engagement with the alliance partner's technical support, develop teams, tools and methodologies at C Ahead Technologies Centers of Excellence.

Operational Alliances

C- ahead Technologies works with many alliance partners in areas of sourcing, recruitment and administration in order to run the business in the most effective manner and source the best breed talents from all parts of the country. C Ahead Technologies is partnering with the best placement agencies and support service vendors.

Branding    

 

India has always been known to the world as the land of wisdom and spirituality. From these comes the characteristics of moral strength, integrity, ethics and high values. These characteristics are ingrained into C Ahead Technologies work culture.

 

C Ahead Technologies vision is to provide solutions and put the wisdom of vast experience into each solution.

The Brand


C Ahead Info Technologies Private Limited.


Business Objective

Become a leading End to End IT Solutions provider in India and relevant markets.

Business

C Ahead Technologies is getting into all spectrums of IT solutions. It is going to be a large organization with a potential to grow sizeably and to get recognized. And today, since the Indian IT’s upper hand is proven, it’s not a hard task based on the vision and strategies being formulated and implemented.


Visual Identity


Positioning - Arriving at the correct positioning

  • C Ahead Technologies is into End to End IT solutions.
  • C Ahead Technologies is futuristic and thinks ahead of time.
  • C Ahead Technologies is flexible and global in true sense

 

 


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.40.58

UK Pound

1

Rs.82.22

Euro

1

Rs.55.97

 

 

SCORE & RATING EXPLANATIONS

 

SCORE FACTORS

 

RANGE

POINTS

HISTORY

1~10

2

PAID-UP CAPITAL

1~10

2

OPERATING SCALE

1~10

1

FINANCIAL CONDITION

 

 

--BUSINESS SCALE

1~10

2

--PROFITABILIRY

1~10

-

--LIQUIDITY

1~10

2

--LEVERAGE

1~10

2

--RESERVES

1~10

1

--CREDIT LINES

1~10

1

--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

NO

--LISTED

YES/NO

NO

--OTHER MERIT FACTORS

YES/NO

YES

TOTAL

 

13

 

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.

 

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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