MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

Report Date :

26.08.2013

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Name :

CTB INC

 

 

Registered Office :

611 North Higbee Street Milford

 

 

Country :

2000

 

 

Year of Incorporation :

1952

 

 

Legal Form :

Corporation for Profit

 

 

Line of Business :

Manufacturing and marketing of agricultural systems and solutions.

 

 

No. of Employees :

1 100

 

 

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 :

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, 2013

 

Country Name

Previous Rating

(31.12.2012)

Current Rating

(31.03.2013)

United States

A1

A1

 

Risk Category

ECGC Classification

Insignificant

 

A1

Low

 

A2

Moderate

 

B1

High

 

B2

Very High

 

C1

Restricted

 

C2

Off-credit

 

D

 


 

UNITED STATES - ECONOMIC OVERVIEW

 

The US has the largest and most technologically powerful economy in the world, with a per capita GDP of $49,800. In this market-oriented economy, private individuals and business firms make most of the decisions, and the federal and state governments buy needed goods and services predominantly in the private marketplace. US business firms enjoy greater flexibility than their counterparts in Western Europe and Japan in decisions to expand capital plant, to lay off surplus workers, and to develop new products. At the same time, they face higher barriers to enter their rivals' home markets than foreign firms face entering US markets. US firms are at or near the forefront in technological advances, especially in computers and in medical, aerospace, and military equipment; their advantage has narrowed since the end of World War II. The onrush of technology largely explains the gradual development of a "two-tier labor market" in which those at the bottom lack the education and the professional/technical skills of those at the top and, more and more, fail to get comparable pay raises, health insurance coverage, and other benefits. Since 1975, practically all the gains in household income have gone to the top 20% of households. Since 1996, dividends and capital gains have grown faster than wages or any other category of after-tax income. Imported oil accounts for nearly 55% of US consumption. Crude oil prices doubled between 2001 and 2006, the year home prices peaked; higher gasoline prices ate into consumers' budgets and many individuals fell behind in their mortgage payments. Oil prices climbed another 50% between 2006 and 2008, and bank foreclosures more than doubled in the same period. Besides dampening the housing market, soaring oil prices caused a drop in the value of the dollar and a deterioration in the US merchandise trade deficit, which peaked at $840 billion in 2008. The sub-prime mortgage crisis, falling home prices, investment bank failures, tight credit, and the global economic downturn pushed the United States into a recession by mid-2008. GDP contracted until the third quarter of 2009, making this the deepest and longest downturn since the Great Depression. To help stabilize financial markets, in October 2008 the US Congress established a $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). The government used some of these funds to purchase equity in US banks and industrial corporations, much of which had been returned to the government by early 2011. In January 2009 the US Congress passed and President Barack OBAMA signed a bill providing an additional $787 billion fiscal stimulus to be used over 10 years - two-thirds on additional spending and one-third on tax cuts - to create jobs and to help the economy recover. In 2010 and 2011, the federal budget deficit reached nearly 9% of GDP. In 2012 the federal government reduced the growth of spending and the deficit shrank to 7.6% of GDP. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan required major shifts in national resources from civilian to military purposes and contributed to the growth of the budget deficit and public debt. Through 2011, the direct costs of the wars totaled nearly $900 billion, according to US government figures. US revenues from taxes and other sources are lower, as a percentage of GDP, than those of most other countries. In March 2010, President OBAMA signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a health insurance reform that will extend coverage to an additional 32 million American citizens by 2016, through private health insurance for the general population and Medicaid for the impoverished. Total spending on health care - public plus private - rose from 9.0% of GDP in 1980 to 17.9% in 2010. In July 2010, the president signed the DODD-FRANK Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a law designed to promote financial stability by protecting consumers from financial abuses, ending taxpayer bailouts of financial firms, dealing with troubled banks that are "too big to fail," and improving accountability and transparency in the financial system - in particular, by requiring certain financial derivatives to be traded in markets that are subject to government regulation and oversight. In December 2012, the Federal Reserve Board announced plans to purchase $85 billion per month of mortgage-backed and Treasury securities in an effort to hold down long-term interest rates, and to keep short term rates near zero until unemployment drops to 6.5% from the December rate of 7.8%, or until inflation rises above 2.5%. Long-term problems include stagnation of wages for lower-income families, inadequate investment in deteriorating infrastructure, rapidly rising medical and pension costs of an aging population, energy shortages, and sizable current account and budget deficits - including significant budget shortages for state governments.

Source : CIA


REGISTERED NAME & COMPANY SUMMARY

 

IDENTIFICATION

Ordered as:

CHORE TIME BROCK INTERNATIONAL

 

Address in the order:

A DIVISION OF CBT INC 407 NORTH MAIN STREET P.O BOX 2000 MILFORD IN 46542-2000 USA

Comments on data supplied:

Dear client:

Chore-Time Brock Internacional is a non-incorporated unit of CTB, Inc., and the address provided, is the branch where Chore-Time Brock Internacional has operations. Therefore this report will be done under the name "CTB, Inc.".

Legal Name:

CTB INC

 

Trade Name:

CHORE TIME BROCK

Legal Address

611 North Higbee Street

Postal Town

Milford

Post Code

2000

Primary Geographic Area

Indiana

Country

US

Operative Address

611 North Higbee Street, P.O. Box 2000

Milford, IN 46542-2000 U.S.A

Telephone:

+1 574-658-4191

ID :

1995091067

Fax:

+1 866 658-5460

Legal Form:

Corporation for Profit

Email:

info@ctbinc.com

Registered in:

US

Website:

www.brockmfg.com / www.ctbinc.com

Date Created:

1952

Manager:

 Mr. Don J. Steinhilber Chief Financial Officer

Date Incorporated:

September 22nd 1995

 

DIRECTORS/MANAGEMENT

 

Management:

 

Mr. Don J. Steinhilber

Chief Financial Officer

 

Mr. Michael J. Kissane

Secretary

 

Mr. George W. Murdoch

Executive Vice President - International Business

 

Vice Presidents

Douglas Niemeyer, Vice President - Egg Production Systems

Art Shively, Vice President

William Mabee, Vice President of Ctb Inc and Corporate Controller of Ctb Inc

Greg Schomott, Vice President of Sales

Mark Lantz, Vice President - Grain Systems Business

Eileen Gabriele, Vice President

 

Directors

Dianne Driessen, Director Business Development

Paul Spurgeon, Director of Human Resources

Mechele Neeley-Scholis, Human Resources Director

Cindy Ross, Director - Human Resources

Brenda Williams, Director of Applications

Holly Heffner, Director Sto BCM

Bob Emerson, Director of Technology Solutions

Catherine Ronayne, Director, Marketing Marcom Services

Bradley Dunbaugh, Project Director Operations

Caryl Chocola, Director

Frank Hermance, Director

Julio Sanclemente, Senior Recruiter

J. Chocola, Chairman of the Board

Michael Fitch, Director

Robert Valencourt, Information Technology Manager

Larry Greene, Director

David Horing, Director

Michael Kissane, Secretary

Lynn Cole, Senior Programmer Analyst

Mr. Charles Klein, Director

Steve Crim, Information Technology Executive

 

CxOs

Dick Freeman, Chief Financial Officer

Don Steinhilber, Chief Financial Officer, Vice President and Treasurer

Sandor Nagy, Chief Operating Officer

Vincent Loncto, Chief Financial Officer

Randy Everler, Chief Financial Officer

 

Executive Vice Presidents

George Murdoch, Executive Vice President - International Business

Robert Bahash, Executive Vice President

 

 

GM/Managing Directors

 

Marc Plastow, General Manager, International Business Unit

Chuck Klippel, Vice President and General Manager

Chief Executive Officer

Victor Mancinelli, Chief Executive Officer, President and Director


NEGATIVE INFORMATION

 

Legal Fillings

 There are several UCC** files listed with the Secretary of State of Indiana, Illinois, Mississippi.

 

 

There are no legal filings listed with the District Court.

 

THE COMPANY IS NOT LISTED ON THE OFAC LIST.*

 

For information:

 

* The Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List is a publication of OFAC which lists individuals and organizations with whom United States citizens and permanent residents are prohibited from doing business.

 

 

** The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) is one of a number of uniform acts that have been promulgated in conjunction with efforts to harmonize the law of sales and other commercial transactions in all 50 states within the United States of America. 

 

The UCC deals primarily with transactions involving personal property (movable property), not real property (immovable property).

 

It allows a creditor to notify other creditors about a debtor’s assets used as collateral for a secured transaction by filing a public notice (financing statement) with a particular filing office.

 

The Uniform Commercial Code Bureau files and maintains on financial obligations (including IRS liens) incurred by individuals (in business as a sole proprietor), business entities and corporations.

 

SHARE & SHARE CAPITAL INFORMATION

 

Shareholders Parent Company(ies):

 

CTB is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

 

PAYMENT INFORMATION

 

PAYMENTS

 

No Complaints

 


DEBT COLLECTIONS AND PAYMENTS

Public

NO

Payments

No Complaints

Clients:

 

Their clients are companies related to the market where they develop.

Operations area:

 

National, International, Local

The company imports from worldwide

The company export to worldwide depending on the demand

Trade References:

 

Despite our research we could not get information about local suppliers to confirm the trade references.

Competitors:

 

LINPAC Group Limited

Behlen Mfg. Co.

Hog Slat, Incorporated

 

GROUP STRUCTURE & AFFILIATED COMPANIES

 

N/a

 

FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

Financials - COMMERCIAL TRENDS AND FORECAST

As a private company the subject does not publish any financial statements.

We have contacted Ms. Chris Rong who refused to provide us any financial data on grounds of confidentiality.

However our financial sources could provide us with the following data.

 

Those figures are estimates provided by confidential banking and financial institutions working with the company.

 

Currency

DATE

USD

2012

Turnover

600 000 000

The cash flow is

Normal

 

 

Comments on the financial data: The financial information for 2012 was not verified by the company.

 

FINANCIAL SUMMARY

Profitability

N.A.

Indebtedness

CONTROLLED

Cash

NORMAL

 

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

 

N/a

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

 

Staff:

1 100

Stock:

N.A.

 

 

Value:

N.A.

Activity:

agricultural systems and solutions.

 

BANKS

Name of the Bank

Bank of America

Comments

This information was not verified by the company.

BUSINESS

HISTORY

 

CTB INC was created in 1952.

 

The company has the following assumed names:

 

10/13/1995        CBT VENTURES, INC.  (Former)

1/11/2002          CTB LOGISTICS  (Assumed))

2/1/2002            BEARD INDUSTRIES  (Assumed))

2/13/2004          CTB ADVERTISING  (Assumed))

3/9/2004            BROCK MANUFACTURING GRAIN CONDITIONING GROUP  (Assumed))

4/5/2005            CHORE-TIME EGG PRODUCTION SYSTEMS  (Assumed))

4/5/2005            CHORE-TIME HOG PRODUCTION SYSTEMS  (Assumed))

4/5/2005            CHORE-TIME POULTRY PRODUCTION SYSTEMS  (Assumed))

4/5/2005            CHORE-TIME BROCK INTERNATIONAL  (Assumed))

4/5/2005            BROCK GRAIN SYSTEMS  (Assumed))

6/26/2006          BROCK INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS  (Assumed))

10/19/2007        PIGTEK PIG EQUIPMENT GROUP, A DIVISION OF CTB, INC.  (Assumed))

1/6/2011            SHORE SALES COMPANY  (Assumed)

1/6/2011            SHORE SALES COMPANY, A DIVISION OF CTB, INC.  (Assumed)

2/4/2011            SHORE MEASURING SYSTEMS, A DIVISION OF CTB, INC.  (Assumed)

2/7/2011            SHORE MEASURING SYSTEMS  (Assumed)

1/11/2013          CHORE-TIME GROUP  (Assumed)

1/16/2013          CHORE-TIME  (Assumed)

 

2012

CTB acquired the assets of Martin Industries, Corp. and its related subsidiaries with locations in Des Moines and Sheffield, Iowa, and Vincennes, Indiana. The company is a leading designer and manufacturer of grain handling equipment and related structures, under the LeMar and Riley brand names.

 

2002 CTB became a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

PRINCIPAL ACTIVITY

 

CTB International Corp. engages in designing, manufacturing, and marketing agricultural systems and solutions.

Products/Services description:

 

The company offers poultry, egg, pig, grain, and equine systems. Its products comprise air cleaning systems, air inlets, air scrubbing systems, architectural doors and windows, augers, bin/silo accessories, biological air scrubbers, brooders, bucket elevators, bulk storage bins/silos, catwalks and support towers, chemical air scrubbers, combination air scrubbers, controls, drinkers, egg collectors, egg counters, electronic sow feeding products, and environmental controls.

Sales are:

 

Wholesale

 

The subject employs 1 100 employees

Comments on staff:

 

The number of employees was not verified by the company.

 LOCATION

Headquarters

 

The company has the headquarters located at:

 

611 North Higbee Street, P.O. Box 2000 Milford, IN 46542-2000 U.S.A.

 

Branches:

 

Chore-Time Brock Internacional

a división de CTB, Inc.

407 North Main Street

Apartado Postal 2000

Milford, IN 46542-2000 EE.UU.

Tel. +1 574.658.9323

Fax +1 574.658.9296 o +1 574.658.3471

 

Ironwood Division

1235 Wall Street

Ironwood, MI 49938

USA

Phone: (906) 932-5025

Fax: (906) 932-4356

 

Two Rivers Division

2800 18th Street

Two Rivers, WI 54241

USA

Phone: (920) 793-3060

Fax: (920) 793-5227

 

LeMar Industries

2070 NE 60th Ave.

Des Moines, IA 50313

USA

 

PIGTEK® Pig Equipment Group

A Division of CTB, Inc.

410 North Higbee Street,

P.O. Box 2000, Milford, IN

46542-2000 U.S.A.

Phone +1.574.658.5000

Fax +1.574.658.5325

E-Mail: info@pigtek.net

 

Roxell USA, Inc.

A Subsidiary of CTB, Inc.

720 Industrial Park Drive

Anderson, MO 64831 U.S.A.

Phone: +1 417 845-6065 or 800 704-7356

Fax: +1 417 845-6069

E-Mail: info.usa@roxell.com

 

LeMar Industries

A Division of CTB, Inc.

2205 S Old Decker Rd

Vincennes, IN 47591

812-886-5500

 

Shore Measuring Systems

A Division of CTB, Inc.

1112 Enterprise Dr.

Rantoul, IL 61866

Phone: 217-892-2544

Toll-Free: 800-837-0863

Fax: 217-892-4281

Business Overview:

 

Companies in this industry manufacture agricultural equipment and machinery, as well as commercial turf and lawn care equipment. Major companies include AGCO, Deere, Great Plains Manufacturing, and Lindsay Corporation (all based in the US), along with Claas KGaA (Germany), CNH Global (the Netherlands), Kubota (Japan), Mahindra & Mahindra (India), and Shifeng Group and YTO Group (China).

 

Demand for agricultural machinery is driven by farm income and crop production projections for the next season and can vary highly year to year. The profitability of individual companies depends on the volume of products sold, since many manufacturing costs are fixed. Big companies have large economies of scale, especially in manufacturing tractors and combines. Small companies can be successful by making specialized equipment, especially tractor attachments. The US industry is highly concentrated: the 50 largest companies generate more than 80 percent of revenue.

Listed at the stock exchange:

 

NO


NOTES & COMMENTS

 

Person Interviewed

 

Ms. Chris Rong

Position

 

Assistant

Comments

 

Ms. Chris Rong, confirmed the locations, legal name, creation date, activity. However he refused to provide further information for this report on grounds of confidentiality.

 

 Final Opinion

 

CTB International Corp. engages in designing, manufacturing, and marketing agricultural systems and solutions.

 

This company would operate with about 1100 employees.

 

This company has 60 years of experience in the market where they develop.

 

 

 


 

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

 

Currency

Unit

Indian Rupees

US Dollar

1

Rs.64.69

UK Pound

1

Rs.100.79

Euro

1

Rs.86.30

 

 

INFORMATION DETAILS

 

Report Prepared by :

PRL

 

 

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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