MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

Report Date :

24.04.2013

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Correct Name :

KWOK  FUNG  (SINO  H.K.)  ENTERPRISE  LTD.

 

 

Registered Office :

Room 4024-39, 40/F., Sun Hung Kai Centre, 30 Harbour Road, Wanchai

 

 

Country :

Hong Kong 

 

 

Date of Incorporation :

01.10.1992

 

 

Com. Reg. No.:

16152469

 

 

Legal Form :

Private Limited Company

 

 

Line of Business :

Importer, Wholesaler and Re-exporter of all kinds of paper

 

 

No. of Employees :

40

 

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

 

Status :

Satisfactory 

 

 

Payment Behaviour :

No  Complaints

 

 

Litigation :

Clear 

 


NOTES:

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ECGC Country Risk Classification List – June 30th, 2012

 

Country Name

Previous Rating

(31.03.2012)

Current Rating

(30.06.2012)

Hong Kong 

A2

A2

 

Risk Category

ECGC Classification

Insignificant

 

A1

Low

 

A2

Moderate

 

B1

High

 

B2

Very High

 

C1

Restricted

 

C2

Off-credit

 

D

 


Hong Kong ECONOMIC OVERVIEW

 

Hong Kong has a free market economy, highly dependent on international trade and finance - the value of goods and services trade, including the sizable share of re-exports, is about four times GDP. Hong Kong levies excise duties on only four commodities, namely: hard alcohol, tobacco, hydrocarbon oil, and methyl alcohol. There are no quotas or dumping laws. Hong Kong's open economy left it exposed to the global economic slowdown that began in 2008. Although increasing integration with China, through trade, tourism, and financial links, helped it to make an initial recovery more quickly than many observers anticipated, it again faces a possible slowdown as exports to the Euro zone and US slump. The Hong Kong government is promoting the Special Administrative Region (SAR) as the site for Chinese renminbi (RMB) internationalization. Hong Kong residents are allowed to establish RMB-denominated savings accounts; RMB-denominated corporate and Chinese government bonds have been issued in Hong Kong; and RMB trade settlement is allowed. The territory far exceeded the RMB conversion quota set by Beijing for trade settlements in 2010 due to the growth of earnings from exports to the mainland. RMB deposits grew to roughly 9.1% of total system deposits in Hong Kong by the end of 2012, an increase of 59% from the previous year. The government is pursuing efforts to introduce additional use of RMB in Hong Kong financial markets and is seeking to expand the RMB quota. The mainland has long been Hong Kong's largest trading partner, accounting for about half of Hong Kong's exports by value. Hong Kong's natural resources are limited, and food and raw materials must be imported. As a result of China's easing of travel restrictions, the number of mainland tourists to the territory has surged from 4.5 million in 2001 to 34.9 million in 2012, outnumbering visitors from all other countries combined. Hong Kong has also established itself as the premier stock market for Chinese firms seeking to list abroad. In 2012 mainland Chinese companies constituted about 46.6% of the firms listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and accounted for about 57.4% of the Exchange's market capitalization. During the past decade, as Hong Kong's manufacturing industry moved to the mainland, its service industry has grown rapidly. Growth slowed to 5% in 2011, and less than 2% in 2012. Credit expansion and tight housing supply conditions caused Hong Kong property prices to rise rapidly and inflation to rise 4.1% in 2012. Lower and middle income segments of the population are increasingly unable to afford adequate housing. Hong Kong continues to link its currency closely to the US dollar, maintaining an arrangement established in 1983.

 

Source : CIA

 


Company name

 

KWOK  FUNG  (SINO  H.K.)  ENTERPRISE  LTD.

 

 

Company ADDRESS

 

Room 4024-39, 40/F., Sun Hung Kai Centre, 30 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong.

PHONE:            2542 1268

FAX:                 2542 1626

 

 

MANAGEMENT

 

Managing Director:         Mr. Yeung Yuk Ching

 

 

SUMMARY

 

Incorporated on:             1st October, 1992.

 

Organization:                 Private Limited Company.

 

Capital:                         Nominal:           HK$50,000,000.00

Issued:              HK$35,000,000.00

 

Business Category:        Paper Trader.

 

Employees:                   40.

 

Main Dealing Banker:     Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd., Hong Kong.

 

Banking Relation:           Satisfactory.


Company ADDRESS

 

Registered Head Office:-

Room 4024-39, 40/F., Sun Hung Kai Centre, 30 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong.

 

Holding Company:-

Kwok Fung Holding Ltd., Hong Kong.

 

Associated Companies:-

AB Jan Liebig Ltd., Sweden.

Costal Pulp & Paper LLC, USA.

Costal Pulp & Paper Ltd., Hong Kong.

Ekman & Co. (Korea) Ltd., Korea.

Ekman & Co. AB, Sweden.

Ekman & Co. China Ltd., China.

Ekman & Co. Inc., USA.

Ekman AG, Switzerland.

Ekman Asia Pte. Ltd., Singapore.

Ekman Converting SA, Morocco.

Ekman do Brasil Comercial Ltda., Brazil.

Ekman Iberica S.A., Spain.

Ekman Middle East (FZC), UAE.

Ekman Polska Sp. z.o.o., Poland.

Ekman Pty. Ltd., Australia.

Ekman Pulp & Paper Co. Ltd., Japan.

Ekman Pulp & Paper Ltd., Hong Kong.

Ekman Pulp & Paper Pvt. Ltd., India.

Ekman Recycling Inc., USA.

Ekman UK Ltd., UK.

Percy Von Schoulta & Co. AB, Sweden.

Rappresentanza Ekman SRL, Italy.

Secondary Pulp & Paper Inc., Canada.

Taipei Ekman & Co., Taiwan.

etc.

 

 

BUSINESS REGISTRATION NUMBEr

 

16152469

 

 

COMPANY FILE NUMBER

 

0382579

 


MANAGEMENT

 

Managing Director:  Mr. Yeung Yuk Ching

Director & Sales Contact:  Mr. Ng. Chi Leung, Danny

 

 

CAPITAL

 

Nominal Share Capital: HK$50,000,000.00 (Divided into 5,000,000 shares of HK$10.00 each)

Issued Share Capital: HK$35,000,000.00

 

 

SHAREHOLDER

(As per registry dated 01-10-2012)

 

Name

 

No. of shares

Kwok Fung Holding Ltd., Hong Kong.

 

3,500,000

 

 

––––––––

 

Total:

3,500,000

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DIRECTORS  

(As per registry dated 01-10-2012)

 

Name

(Nationality)

 

Address

YEUNG Yuk Ching

   (Chinese)

Flat B, 9/F., Amber Garden 70-72 Kennedy Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong.

 

NG Chi Leung, Danny

   (Chinese)

Flat C, 28/F., Amber Garden, 70-72 Kennedy Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong.

 

Jan Olof SVENSSON

8750 NW 36th Street, Suite 400, Miami FL 33178, USA.

 

Per Hans TIDEBRANT

Ut Landa Gatan 10, Y/2 61 Giteborg, Sweden.

 

Annie Elisabeth EDVARDSEN

Baverstigen 3, 4Y8 3Y Floda, Sweden.

 


SECRETARY 

(As per registry dated 01-10-2012)

 

Name

Address

Co. No.

TopSec Services Ltd.

Unit 1602, 16/F., Malaysia Building, 50 Gloucester Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong.

0312349

 

 

HISTORY

 

The subject was incorporated on 1st October, 1992 as a private limited liability company under the Hong Kong Companies Ordinance.

 

Formerly the subject was located at Room 1702, 17/F., Workington Tower, 78 Bonham Strand East, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, moved to Room 1309, 13/F., West Tower, Shun Tak Centre, 168-200 Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong in May, 2004.  The subject moved to the present address in January 2012.

 

Apart from these, neither material change nor amendment has been ever traced and noted.

 

 

OPERATIONS

 

Activities:                      Importer, Wholesaler and Re-exporter.

 

Lines:                           All kinds of paper.

 

Employees:                   40.

 

Commodities Imported:   Imported from Europe (Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, etc.), US, China, etc.

 

Markets:                       Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, etc.

 

Terms/Sales:                  Various terms.

 

Terms/Buying:               L/C or as per contracted.

 

 

FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

Nominal Share Capital:   HK$50,000,000.00 (Divided into 5,000,000 shares of HK$10.00 each)

 

Issued Share Capital:     HK$35,000,000.00


 

Alternation of Capital:-

Initially

paid up

HK$      10,000.00

31-12-2003

paid up

HK$      990,000.00

17-02-2005

paid up

HK$      34,000,000.00

 

 

––––––––––––––––

Total:

paid up

HK$      35,000,000.00

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Increase of Nominal Capital:-

From

HK$5,000,000.00

to

HK$50,000,000.00

on

28-01-2005

 

Profit or Loss:                Business is profitable.

 

Condition:                      Keeping in an active manner.

 

Facilities:                      Making active use of general banking facilities.

           

Payment:                      Regularly met.

 

Commercial Morality:  Satisfactory.

 

Bankers:-

·         Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd., Hong Kong.

·         DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd., Hong Kong.

·         The Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp. Ltd., Hong Kong.

 

Standing:  Good.

 

 

GENERAL

Originally Kwok Fung (Sino H.K.) Enterprise Ltd. just issued 1,000 ordinary shares of HK$10.00 each.  Increased to 100,000 shares by issuing 99,000 more shares on 31st December, 2003.  Now, its issued share capital has been increased to HK$35 million.

The subject was jointly owned by Rich Loyal International Enterprise Ltd., holding 60% interest; Mr. Danny Ng Chi Leung, holding 20%, and Mr. Yeung Yuk Ching, also 20%.  Now, it is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kwok Fung Holding Ltd. [Kwok Fung] which is a Hong Kong-registered firm.  Kwok Fung is a subsidiary of Ekman AB & Co. [Ekman] which is a Sweden-based firm.  Ekman acquired Kwok Fung in 2011.

The subject is a paper trader.

The subject imports, wholesales and re-exports all kinds of paper, pulp and paper board.  Commodities are imported from various sources such as the United States, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, China, etc.  Prime markets are Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, etc.  Most of the subject’s customers are printing factories in Hong Kong or enterprises which have got affiliated printing factories in China.  Business has been active and satisfactory.

Ekman provides a complete range of services for the paper and pulp industries, covering market information and research, invoicing and documentation, logistics and warehouse administration, transportation and insurance, trade finance, credit risk coverage, payment administration, advance payments and financing, currency and interest rate hedging, and price risk hedging.

Ekman has 265 employees working at about 40 locations throughout the world. Operations are coordinated from its hubs in Gothenburg, Miami and Hong Kong.  The Hong Kong hub is the subject.

Its own sales offices, in close cooperation with an international network of partners and representatives, ensure a strong presence throughout the world in all producing and consuming areas for the forest industry.

In FY 2011, the operating revenue of Ekman amounted to US$2,420 million (2010: US$2,100 million).  In the year, Ekman sold 3,700 tonnes of paper and pulp.

Jan Svensson is the CEO of the Ekman Group while Hans Tidebrant is the senior vice president.  Both are also director of the subject.

Mr. Ng and Mr. Yeung are veterans in the field of paper importing and marketing.

The subject is fully supported by Ekman.

As the subject has a history of over twenty years in Hong Kong, on the whole, consider it good for normal business engagements.

 

 

REMARKS

 

Court case record:-

Action Date

Case No.

Plaintiff

Defendant

Cause

Amount

May 2005

H977

Kwok Fung (Sino H.K.) Enterprise Ltd.

Kwok Fung (Sino H.K.) Enterprise Ltd.

Reinstate registration of company

Not stated

 

Property information of the company:-

Property Location:          Unit No. 1308 on 13/F. of West Tower, Shun Tak Centre,
168-200 Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong.

Owner:  Kwok Fung (Sino H.K.) Enterprise Ltd.

Date of Purchase:  n.a.

Purchased Price:  n.a.

Incumbrances:-

Date of Mortgage

Amount Consideration

Mortgagee

Nature

30-04-2008

-

The Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp. Ltd., Hong Kong.

Mortgage to secure general banking facilities

 


 

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

 

Currency

Unit

Indian Rupees

US Dollar

1

Rs.54.30

UK Pound

1

Rs.82.88

Euro

1

Rs.70.80

 

INFORMATION DETAILS

 

Report Prepared by :

MNL

 

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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