MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

 

Report Date :

06.03.2008

 

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Name :

KNOWLEDGEWORKS GLOBAL LIMITED

 

 

Registered Office :

Marwah Center, 5th Floor, Krishanlal Marwah Marg, Andheri (East), Mumbai -  400072, Maharashtra

 

 

Country :

India

 

 

Financials (as on) :

31.03.2006

 

 

Date of Incorporation :

05.02.2003

 

 

Com. Reg. No.:

139027

 

 

CIN No.:

[Company Identification No.]

U72200MH2003PLC139027

 

 

TAN No.:

[Tax Deduction & Collection Account No.]

MUMK10479A

 

 

PAN No.:

[Permanent Account No.]

AACCK0612M

 

 

Legal Form :

A closely held Public Limited Liability Company. 

 

 

Line of Business :

Publication of Educational, Magazine, Gernals and other

 

 

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 160000

 

 

Status :

Satisfactory

 

 

Payment Behaviour :

Regular

 

 

Litigation :

Clear

 

 

Comments :

Subject is a well established and reputed company having satisfactory track records.  Trade relations are 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.

 

 

INFORMATION PARTED BY

 

Name :

Mr. Venkatesh

Designation :

Administrative Manager

Date :

29.02.2008

 

 

LOCATIONS

 

Registered Office :

Marwah Center, 5th Floor, Krishanlal Marwah Marg, Andheri (East), Mumbai -  400072, India

Tel. No.:

91-22-40985200

Fax No.:

91-22-40985210

E-Mail :

goela@cadmus.com

info@kwglobal.com

Website :

http://www.kwglobal.com

Area :

30000 sq. fts.

Location:

Rented

 

 

Corporate Office :

36, Barnaby Road, Kilpauk, Chennai -600 010, Tamil Nadu India

Tel. No.:

91-44-420-58888

 

 

DIRECTORS

 

Name :

Mr. Atul Goel

Designation :

Director

Date of Birth/Age :

42 Years

Qualification :

Post Graduate

 

 

Name :

Mr. John Thomas Brohel

Designation :

Director

Address :

2671N, Greenview, Unit A, Chicago 60614, US

Tel. No. :

91-18475403006

Fax No. :

91-12035353079

Date of Birth/Age :

09.10.1964

Date of Appointment :

26.03.2007

 

 

Name :

Mr. Harry Rondal Brohel

Designation :

Director

Address :

3104, Kewanee Lane, Naperville, US

Date of Birth/Age :

26.01.1961

Date of Appointment :

26.03.2007

 

 

Name :

Mr. Lalit Surajmal Kanodia

 

Designation :

Director

 

Address :

1201, Red Rose Chsl, 44, Pochankhanwala Road, Worli

 

Date of Birth/Age :

30.03.1941

 

Date of Appointment :

05.02.2003

 

 

 

 

Name :

Mr. Walter Peter

 

Designation :

Director

 

Address :

1801, Bayberry Street, Suite 200, Richmond VA 23226, USA

 

Date of Birth/Age :

24.02.1943

 

Date of Appointment :

12.08.2003

 

 

 

 

Name :

Mr. Stephen Hare

 

Designation :

Director

 

Address :

101, Lock Green Place, Richmond VA 23226, USA

 

Date of Birth/Age :

02.06.1953

 

Date of Appointment :

12.08.2003

 

 

 

 

Name :

Mustafa Motiwala

 

Designation :

Director

 

Address :

501, Dheeraj Gaurav, Heights Andheri Link Road, Andheri [West], Mumbai 400053, Maharashtra, India

 

Date of Birth/Age :

06.10.1970

 

Date of Appointment :

25.03.2004

 

 

 

 

Name :

Mr. Soman Thomas

 

Designation :

Director

 

Address :

12, Gautam Darshan Seven Bunglows, Andheri [West], Mumbai 400053, Maharashtra, India

 

Date of Birth/Age :

24.02.1952

 

Date of Appointment :

08.08.2005

 

 

 

KEY EXECUTIVES

 

Name :

Mr. Atul Goel

Designation :

President and Chief Operating Officer

Tel No.:

91-22-555-65200

Fax No.:

91-22-555-65233

Email :

goela@cadmus.com

 

 

MAJOR SHAREHOLDERS / SHAREHOLDING PATTERN

 

Names of Shareholders

 

No. of Shares

Datamatics Technologies Limited

 

100099

Dr. Lalit Kanodia

 

1

Cadmus Knowledgeworks International Limited

 

400396

Cadmus Marketing Inc.

 

1

Garamond/Pridemark Press Inc.

 

1

Cadmus Keefe Marketing Inc.

 

1

Cadmus UK Inc.

 

1

Total

 

500500

Equity Share Break-up

 

Percentage of Holding

Foreign Holdings

 

100.00

 

 

BUSINESS DETAILS

 

Line of Business :

Publication of Educational, Magazine, Gernals and other

 

 

Exports :

 

Products :

All products

Countries :

US and Australia

 

 

Imports :

 

Products :

Machineries, Computer Parts

Countries :

Hongkong, US and Singapore

 

 

Terms :

 

Purchasing :

L/C

 

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

 

Customers :

Individual Company

 

 

No. of Employees :

Around 450

 

 

Bankers :

  • ICICI Bank, MIDC Branch
  • Bank of America, Bombay Branch 

 

 

 

Banking Relations :

--

 

 

Auditors :

 

Name :

Loddha and Company

Chartered Accountants

Address :

6, Karim Chambers, 40, Ambalal Doshi Marg, [Hamam Marg], Mumbai 400023, Maharashtra, India

 

 

Associates/Subsidiaries :

Not Divulged

 

 

CAPITAL STRUCTURE

 

Authorised Capital :

No. of Shares

Type

Value

Amount

1000000

Equity Shares

Rs. 10/- each

Rs. 10.000 Millions

 

Issued, Subscribed & Paid-up Capital :

No. of Shares

Type

Value

Amount

500500

Equity Shares

Rs. 10/- each

Rs. 5.005 Millions

 


 

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

 

5.005

5.000

2] Share Application Money

 

0.000

0.000

3] Reserves & Surplus

 

36.841

15.228

4] (Accumulated Losses)

 

0.000

0.000

NETWORTH

 

41.846

20.228

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

 

0.000

0.000

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

 

41.846

20.228

 

 

 

 

APPLICATION OF FUNDS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FIXED ASSETS [Net Block]

 

68.784

14.164

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

 

34.718

13.249

 

Cash & Bank Balances

 

9.909

2.144

 

Other Current Assets

 

14.956

6.945

 

Loans & Advances

 

16.962

14.306

Total Current Assets

 

76.545

36.644

Less : CURRENT LIABILITIES & PROVISIONS

 

 

 

 

Current Liabilities

 

98.957

28.952

 

Provisions

 

4.526

1.628

Total Current Liabilities

 

103.483

30.580

Net Current Assets

 

[26.938]

6.064

 

 

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

 

0.000

0.000

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

 

41.846

20.228

 


PROFIT & LOSS ACCOUNT

 

PARTICULARS

 

31.03.2007

31.03.2006

31.03.2005

Sales Turnover

351.669

198.043

99.047

Other Income

0.333

0.060

0.388

Total Income

352.002

198.103

99.435

 

 

 

 

Profit/(Loss) Before Tax

54.105

64.973

[9.861]

Provision for Taxation

0.925

0.852

-

Profit/(Loss) After Tax

53.180

64.121

[9.861]

 

 

 

 

Expenditures :

 

 

 

 

Salaries, Wages, Bonus, etc.

135.865

99.184

42.959

 

Payment to Auditors

0.940

0.946

0.720

 

Insurance Expenses

0.622

0.552

0.371

 

Power & Fuel

8.009

5.449

2.098

 

Depreciation & Amortization

50.551

26.999

5.597

 

Other Expenditure

101.910

0.000

57.551

Total Expenditure

297.897

133.130

109.296

 

 

KEY RATIOS

 

PARTICULARS

 

 

31.03.2007

31.03.2006

31.03.2005

PAT / Total Income

(%)

15.10

32.36

[9.91]

 

 

 

 

 

Net Profit Margin

(PBT/Sales)

(%)

15.38

32.80

[9.95]

 

 

 

 

 

Return on Total Assets

(PBT/Total Assets}

(%)

NA

44.70

[19.40]

 

 

 

 

 

Return on Investment (ROI)

(PBT/Networth)

 

NA

1.55

[0.48]

 

 

 

 

 

Debt Equity Ratio

(Total Liability/Networth)

 

NA

2.47

1.51

 

 

 

 

 

Current Ratio

(Current Asset/Current Liability)

 

NA

0.73

1.19

 


 

LOCAL AGENCY FURTHER INFORMATION

 

AS PER WEBSITE

 

Company Information

Subject provides content management, page design and data management services to scientific, technical, medical (STM), educational and magazine publishers. Their facilities located in Mumbai and Chennai, India are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cadmus Communications and are increasingly the ‘hub’ of Cadmus’ global content production services.


Guided by the expertise of Cadmus’ 100+ years serving the publishing industry, KGL understands publishers’ needs. Proven workflow processes and technology combined with a highly flexible and specialized workforce in India ensure that the projects will be produced in a timely and cost efficient manner.

 

Expertise

Publishing Expertise

 

Subject is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cadmus Communications, the world’s largest provider of content processing and production services to scientific, technical and medical journal publishers. Their experience and established end-to-end publishing solutions can be extended to educational, magazine and other markets.


Customer Support

Recognizing that each publisher has unique needs and cost drivers, KGL works with its clients to establish the necessary level of project management and service support for each project to manage communication, drive production and ensure the desired results for the projects.


Cost Effective Services

Matching the appropriate service levels, specialized skill sets and workflow processes to the requirements ensures that the project is produced in the most cost effective manner to match the delivery expectations.

Highly Automated Workflows

In stark contrast to many overseas operations which rely solely on manual labor, KGL combines a cost-efficient workforce with full access to the highly automated content processing technology and systems developed by Cadmus.

Specialized Work Force

Facilities in Mumbai and Chennai are staffed with highly skilled content production associates who have undergone extensive training and a formal certification process.


Market Driven Solutions

Cadmus/KGL has over 125 years of experience providing publisher services to the top scientific, technical, and medical publishers. KGL is successfully leveraging this experience to serve markets such as educational, legal, magazine and professional publishers.


Technology-Enabled Systems

Subject leverages the automation of the KnowledgeWorks web-based content processing system to fuel a highly flexible and efficient production environment for publishers.


Multi-Platform

Subject composes on all major platforms including 3B2, InDesign®, Quark®, TeX and XPP.

 

Content Processing Services

 

Project Management

 

Comprehensive project management services deliver on publishers’ needs for greater efficiency and cost control. KGL can provide assistance in defining project scope, designing optimum workflows, initial project planning, or ongoing project management as the needs and internal resource constraints dictate. The KGL team has access to Cadmus experts who have a long history of providing high levels of service and support to publishers and authors.

Copyediting
Their automated pre-editing services can programmatically “cleaned up” files that will accelerate the delivery and increase the accuracy of the copyediting. This software performs mundane copyediting tasks such as spell-checking, abbreviation and punctuation standardization, tagging, and reference-checking. These files can be used directly for composition or as the starting point for more extensive manual copyediting.


Composition
Subject composes on all major platforms including Quark®, InDesign®, 3B2, TeX, and XPP.


Data Capture

Subject can work from existing print materials, raw manuscripts, copyedited files and most printer files to generate composed pages or XML-coded files, by using a combination of automated software tools and manual data-entry. Their double-entry, triple-compare process ensures the optimal level of accuracy at the character level.

Data Conversion

Subject has extensive experience with data conversion projects from both paper-based media and electronic files. Subject hundreds of thousands of pages of legacy content annually through either scanning or keying processes to generate both PDF pages and XML coded files.



 

 


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. 40.29

UK Pound

1

Rs. 79.97

Euro

1

Rs. 61.23

 

 

SCORE & RATING EXPLANATIONS

 

SCORE FACTORS

 

RANGE

POINTS

HISTORY

1~10

5

PAID-UP CAPITAL

1~10

5

OPERATING SCALE

1~10

6

FINANCIAL CONDITION

 

 

--BUSINESS SCALE

1~10

7

--PROFITABILIRY

1~10

5

--LIQUIDITY

1~10

6

--LEVERAGE

1~10

6

--RESERVES

1~10

6

--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

YES

--AFFILIATION

YES/NO

YES

--LISTED

YES/NO

NO

--OTHER MERIT FACTORS

YES/NO

YES

TOTAL

 

51

 

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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