MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

Report Date :           

03.06.2011

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Name :

KHARAFI NATIONAL CO. LLC

 

 

Registered Office :

Kharafi National Building, Near Adnoc Roundabout, Opp. New Pharma Co., Al Musaffah, Industrial City, P.O.Box No. 26831, Abu Dhabi

 

 

Country :

United Arab Emirates 

 

 

Date of Incorporation :

22.08.1996

 

 

Com. Reg. No.:

32777

 

 

Legal Form :

Limited Liability Company

 

 

Line of Business :

Electro-Mechanical Contractors

 

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 :

Dh 10,000,000

Status :

Good

Payment Behaviour :

No Complaints

Litigation :

Clear

 

 

NOTES :

Any query related to this report can be made on e-mail : infodept@mirainform.com while quoting report number, name and date.

 

 

ECGC Country Risk Classification List – March 31st, 2011

 

Country Name

Previous Rating

                   (31.12.2010)                  

Current Rating

(31.03.2011)

United Arab Emirates 

a2

a2

 

Risk Category

ECGC Classification

Insignificant

 

A1

Low

 

A2

Moderate

 

B1

High

 

B2

Very High

 

C1

Restricted

 

C2

Off-credit

 

D

 


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COmpany NAME 

 

Kharafi National Co. LLC (Correct)

KHARAFI NATIONAL COMPANY (EMIRATES) (Requested)

 

 

company ADDRESS

 

Building                         : Kharafi National Building

Area                             : Near Adnoc Roundabout, Opp. New Pharma Co., Al Musaffah

                                    Industrial City

P.O.Box No.                  : 26831

Town                             : Abu Dhabi

Country                         : United Arab Emirates

Telephone                      : (971 2) 513 0513 / 676 6444 / Mobile (966 50) 818 6753

Fax                               `: (971 2) 513 0519

E-Mail                            : infoharafinational.com / ahmed.zaher@kharafinational.com

Website                        : www.kharafinational.com

 

 

SENIOR COMPANY PERSONNEL

 

   Name                                                 Position

 

1. Paul Nocharli                         Chief Operating Officer

 

2. Ahmed Zaher                         Financial Manager

 

3. Ala’a Al Masri                        Procurement Manager

 

4. Kery Parven                           Administrative Manager

 

Total Employees :          9,000 (subject)

                                    100,000 (group)

 

 

PAYMENTS

 

No complaints have been heard regarding payments from local suppliers

or banks.

 

Subject is a member of the Kharafi Group of Companies, which is headed by Mohammed Abdulmohsin Al Kharafi & Sons for General Trading General Contracting & Industrial Structures WLL / aka MAK Group, a private Kuwaiti based group with diverse interests and activities worldwide. Established as a trading company more than 100 years ago it has since developed into a large multi-national company. The activities covered are those in construction, manufacturing and commerce as well as Americana Co, the  largest food company in the Middle East, an airline and investments that include Kuwait's leading financial institutions and other companies listed on the stock exchange. With an annual turnover of over US$4 Billion the M.A. Kharafi Group now operates in more than 25 countries around the world and has more than 100,000 employees.

 

Associations inspire added confidence and we consider it is

acceptable to deal with subject for LARGE amounts.

 

Opinion on maximum credit : Dh 10,000,000 (associations inspire

                            confidence for higher amounts if

                            required).

 

Trade risk assessment : Normal

 

 

PRINCIPAL BANKERS

 

NAME     : UNION NATIONAL BANK

Branch   : Salam Street

PO Box   : 3865

Town     : Abu Dhabi

 

Telephone: (971 2) 674 1600

Fax      : (971 2) 678 6080

 

The Company also has an account with the following banks :

 

1. Mashreq Bank

   Blue Tower, Ground Floor

   Khalifa Street

   PO Box 858

   Abu Dhabi

   Telephone: (971 2) 612 7248 / 612 7256 / 612 7257       

   Fax      : (971 2) 626 9550

 

2. Dubai Islamic Bank

   Sheikh Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum Street

   PO Box 3863

   Abu Dhabi

   Telephone: (971 2) 346 0600

   Fax      : (971 2) 346 0643

 

3. Commercial Bank International (CBI)

   Al Rigga Street

   Deira

   PO Box 4449

   Dubai

   Telephone: (971 4) 227 5265

   Fax      : (971 4) 227 9038   

 

 

FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

Private companies in United Arab Emirates are not required to publish or disclose balance sheets. However, the subject interviewed offered the following information :

 

Sales turnover       : Dh 1,000,000,000 – 2010 - exact

                          : Dh 1,200,000,000 – 2011 – projected

                         

Net Profit           : not given but stated to be 10-15% of the sales

 

Financial year ends 31 December.

 

The following information applies to Kharafi National KSCC, Kuwait, subject's parent company (latest available) :

 

Sales turnover      : KD 250,000,000 - 2007 - approx

                        : KD 260,000,000 - 2008 - approx

 

Net profit          : not given

 

Financial year ends 31 December.

 

 

LEGAL STATUS AND HISTORY

 

Date Started :                22 August 1996

 

C.R. No. :                      32777

 

Chamber Unified No. :  43304

 

Economic Dept. No.:      1023823

 

ADCCI Membership No.: 72084 (expiry date: 07/02/2012)

 

Authorised Capital : Dh 20,000,000

 

Paid up Capital : Dh 20,000,000

 

Limited Liability Company with the following sole shareholder :

 

Kharafi National KSCC                      

PO Box 24081

Safat 13101

Kuwait City

Kuwait

Telephone: (965) 2225 9000 / 2474 9655 / 2243 1043

Fax      : (965) 2225 9999

Est. : 24 May 1976

C.R. No. : 23866

KCCI Membership No. : 5281 (expires on 9 July 2012)

Capital : KD 10,000,000

Chairman : Faisal Nasser Mohammed Al Kharafi 

Kuwaiti Shareholding Company (closed) with the following shareholders :

 

- Jasim Mohamed Al Kharafi

 (Kuwaiti national)

 

- Nasser Mohamed Al Kharafi

 (Kuwaiti national)

 

- Faisal Nasser Mohammed Al Kharafi

 (Kuwaiti national)

 

- Fawzi Mohamed Al Kharafi

 (Kuwaiti national)

 

- Faizah Mohamed Al Kharafi

 (Kuwaiti national)

 

- Muhanad Mohamed Al Kharafi

 (Kuwaiti national)

 

- Sahar Mohamed Al Kharafi

 (Kuwaiti national)

 

- Souad Mohamed Al Kharafi

 (Kuwaiti national)

 

- Ghaleb Mohamed Younis

 (Kuwaiti national)

 

- Nada H. Al Naqeeb (Mrs)

  (Kuwaiti national)

 

-  Other minority shareholders

 

Subject's local agent is :

 

Al Mulla Construction Co LLC

Al Mulla Building

Creek Road

PO Box 59 

Dubai

Telephone: (971 4) 222 1241 / 222 1243

Fax      : (971 4) 221 8109

 

Personal Profile on Jasim Mohamed Al Kharafi :

 

Jassim M. Al Kharafi is a Kuwaiti national born on 8 December 1940.

He is married. He was educated at Victoria College in Alexandria,

Egypt and was a former member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly

(1975-1985) and Minister of Finance and Economy (1985-1990).  In July

2000 Jassim Al Kharafi was elected parliamentary speaker and will

hold the post for three parliamentary sessions.

 

Al Kharafi family

 

According to international and local publishing sources Nasser Al

Kharafi and his brothers are worth some US$5.7 billion.

 

Nasser Al Kharafi and his brothers run the US$3.1 billion (revenue)

Mohammed Abdulmohsin Al Kharafi & Sons contracting group. Eldest

brother Jassim is chairman, but younger brother Nasser is president

and the one considered to make things run. Sister Faiza Al Kharafi is

a senior academic and president of Kuwait University.

 

The group are trying to attract European tourists to their

Disneyesque Port Galib on Egypt's Red Sea coast. The resort's French

managed airport began accepting commercial flights from Europe in

late 2001. Project cost is estimated at US$2billion.

 

Affiliated companies of Kharafi National Co. LLC :

 

Subject is a subsidiary of Kharafi National KSCC, member of the Al Kharafi Group of Companies, Kuwait, headed by :

 

Mohammed Abdulmohsin Al Kharafi & Sons Co W.L.L

M.A. Kharafi Building

Canada Dry Street No. 12, behind Al Ghanim Industries

Block No 3, Shuwaikh Industrial Area

PO Box 886

Safat 13009

Kuwait

Telephone: (965) 2481 3622 / 2483 3774 (5 lines)

Fax      : (965) 2481 3740 / 2481 1641 

 

The group also includes the following companies :

 

1.  Admak General Contracting Company

    Al Ain

    Abu Dhabi- United Arab Emirates

 

2.  Air Express Egypt

    Egypt

 

3.  Al Kharafi Drilling Company

    Yemen Republic

 

4.  Aluminium Industries

    Kuwait

 

5.  Arab Aluminium Company

    Egypt

 

6.  Cassette Factory

    Egypt

 

7.  Costain, UK

    (Subject bought 7.5 % stake in 1995)

 

8.  Cybermak Information Systems

    Kuwait

 

9.  Drum Factory

    Yemen Republic

 

10. Emprex, USA

    (Subject has increased his shares from 10 % to

    12.9 % in 1995)

 

11. Global Telecom

 

12. Gulf Insulating Material And Manufacturing Company

    PO Box 1306

    Al Farwaniah

    Kuwait

    Telephone: (965) 2476 3821 / 2473 1209

    Fax      : (965) 2473 1201

 

13. International Contracting Company

    Kuwait

 

14. Isofoam Insulating Material Company

    Kuwait

 

15. Kharafi Advertising & Public Relation Agencies

 

16. Kharafi Terrazo Factory

 

17. Kuwait Food Co. (Americana)

    Kuwait

 

18. Kuwait Readymix Company

    Kuwait

 

19. Kuwait Steel Reinforcement Company

    Kuwait

 

20. MAK Botswana

 

21. MAK Brakelining Egypt

    Egypt

 

22. MAK Contracting Company

    Egypt

 

23. Marine & Foundation Company

    Kuwait

 

24. National Piling Co

    Abu Dhabi

    UAE

 

25. National for Mechanical and Electrical Works

    Kuwait

 

26. Sitar Sun Protection Co

 

27. Terazzo Factory

    Kuwait

 

28. Tiles Factory

    Republic of Yemen

 

29. Yemen Hotels & Investment Company

    Republic of Yemen

 

30. Arab Company for Computer Manufacturing

    Egypt

 

31. M.A.Kharafi & Sons Co. WLL

    Saudi Arabia

 

32. MAK Lebanon

    Lebanon

 

33. Kharafi National LLC

    PO Box 25693

    Dubai

    United Arab Emirates

    Telephone: (971 4) 347 6662

    Fax      : (971 4) 347 9400

    E-mail: dubai@kharafinational.com

 

34. Egyptian Sponge Co. "Misrfoam"

    Giza

    Egypt

    Telephone: (20 2) 2572 1758 / 2573 1380

    Fax      : (20 2) 2572 9258

 

35. Kharafi National Company for Mech. & Elect. Works SAE

    2 Abdul Moneim Riyadh Street

    Thawra Square

    Al Mohendessen, Giza

    PO Box 21 Imbaba

    Cairo 12311

    Egypt

    Telephone: (20 2) 3336 7688

    Fax      : (20 2) 3760 9264

    E-mail: egypt@kharafinational.com

 

36. Kharafi National Lebanon

    Beirut

    Lebanon

 

37. Quality Technical Supplies Company

    PO Box 30582

    Abu Dhabi

    United Arab Emirates

    Telephone: (971 2) 677 8767

    Fax      : (971 2) 677 5773

    E-mail: kn.trade@kharafinational.com

    Established 2001

 

38. The National Co. for Mech. & Elect. Works Ltd - Dubai Branch

    PO Box 25693

    Dubai

    United Arab Emirates

    Telephone: (971 4) 347 6662

    Fax      : (971 4) 347 9400

    E-mail: dubai@kharafinational.com

 

39. Saipem Kharafi National MMO FZCO

    Dubai Airport Free Zone

    Dubai

    United Arab Emirates

 

40. Kharafi National KSC (Closed)

    Lebanon Branch

    MAK Centre, 2nd Floor

    Al Sham Road

    PO Box 182

    Hazmieh

    Beirut

    Lebanon

    Telephone: (961 5) 950 480 / 1

    Fax      : (961 5) 950 988

    E-mail: lebanon@kharafinational.com

 

41. Kharafi National SARL

    MAK Centre, 2nd Floor

    Al Sham Road

    PO Box 182

    Hazmieh

    Beirut

    Lebanon

    Telephone: (961 5) 950 480 / 1

    Fax      : (961 5) 950 988

    E-mail: lebanon@kharafinational.com

 

42. Kharafi National W.L.L.

    Doha

    Qatar

 

43. Saipem Kharafi National MMO FZCO

    (under establishment)

    Doha

    Qatar

    Telephone: (974) 546 0454

    E-mail: lionel.duval@sknmmo.com

 

44. The National Co. for Mechanical & Electrical Works Ltd.

    Saudi Arabia

 

45. Kharafi National WLL

    Office No. 52

    Building No. 338

    Road No. 1705

    Manama 317

    PO Box 10031

    Manama

    Kingdom of Bahrain

    Telephone: (965) 2225 9000

    Fax      : (965) 2474 4335

    E-mail: bahrain@kharafinational.com

 

46. Isofoam South Africa (PTY) Ltd.

    PO Box 1584 Dassenberg,

    7350 Capetown,

    South Africa

    Telephone: (21 57) 71 105

 

47. Isofoam Trading

    PO Box 35220

    Dubai

    United Arab Emirates

    Telephone: (971 4) 286 1082

    Fax      : (971 4) 286 0821

 

 


ACTIVITIES

 

The Company is involved in the following activities :

 

Electro-mechanical contractors.

 

Subject undertakes civil engineering projects and mechanical

contracting for the public, oilfield and private sectors.

 

Subject also operates in the following fields of activities :

 

- Infrastructure Project Development

- EPCM Operations : focuses on developing and executing major

  projects throughout the Middle East in the water, infrastructure

  and environmental, power and MEP building services sectors.

- Construction : provides a complete range of construction services

  for heavy industrial plants in the oil and gas, petrochemicals,

  power, water and related sectors. The company constructs

  pipe-lines, gathering centres, export facilities, refineries,

  petrochemical plants, power generating stations and desalination

  plants, and has been involved in numerous construction projects

  throughout the Middle East; The capabilities in construction and

  the range of construction services offered by Kharafi National

  include:  detailed engineering;

            civil works;

            mechanical works;

            fabrication and installation of piping;

            electrical works;

            instrumentation systems;

            painting;

            insulation;

            testing, pre-commissioning and commissioning

- Facilities Management : provides comprehensive and integrated

  services for commercial and industrial building systems,

  installations and facilities.

 

- Trading Operations : supplies materials, equipment and systems to   

  major clients and contractors in the oil and gas, petrochemical,

  power, water and waste-water sectors. These products, which are

  used in the main for the development of infrastructure, are

  supported by KNTO s superior after-sales services.

 

NACE Code : 4291 / 4110 / 4200 / 4299 / 7112 / 4321 / 4614

 

  Suppliers : XinXing Ductile Iron Pipes Company, China (ductile iron

              pipes and fittings)

              Alldos Eichler GmbH, Germany (chlorination systems)

              Emile Egger & Cie SA, Switzerland (pumps)

              Jash Engineering Ltd, India (penstocks, MB screens and

              knife gate valves)

              Euromac Srl, Italy (aeration equipment and belt

              conveyors)

              Silvertech Middle East FZCO, UAE (DCS, PLC, and SCADA)

              TM. P. S.p.A. Termomeccanica Pompe, Italy

              (positive-displacement and centrifugal pumps)

 

- Equipment Dealership : offers state-of-the-art equipment, products

  and services for sale or rent from international suppliers. The

  Unit supplies a wide range of construction equipment, such as earth

  moving equipment from CASE; batching plant, concrete pumps,

  concrete mixers from CIFA; forklifts from CLARK; rough terrain

  cranes from Locatelli; electric overhead cranes from BULL; tower

  lights from Allmand; Premax dewatering pumps from Sykes; generators

  and welding machines from Genset; components for batching plants

  from WAM; and material lifts from SCAN CLIMBER.

 

Subject is ISO 9001:2008 certified.

 

Imports worldwide, mainly from UK, Germany, Belgium, India, China and USA.

 

Subject only sells locally and does not engage in re-export business.

 

 

FACILITIES

 

The Company has the following facilities :

 

Rented premises comprising administrative offices with storage facilities located at the heading address as well as site offices located elsewhere in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

 

 

SPECIAL NOTE

 

You enquired on : Kharafi National Company (Emirates). Please note that the correct name is as per heading.      

 

The commercial registration number given by you: 1023823 applies to

subject's Economic Department number. Please note that subject's commercial registration number is: 32777.

 

Interviewed : Ahmed Zaher (Financial Manager).


 

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

 

Currency

Unit

Indian Rupees

US Dollar

1

Rs.44.94

UK Pound

1

Rs.73.46

Euro

1

Rs.64.58

 

 

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

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

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NB

New Business

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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%)

 

 

 

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