MIRA INFORM REPORT
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Report Date : |
14.05.2013 |
IDENTIFICATION DETAILS
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Name : |
SUPERIOR ESSEX INC. |
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Registered Office : |
6120 Powers Ferry Road NW, Ste 150, Atlanta, GA 30339 |
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Country : |
United States |
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Year of Establishments: |
1954 |
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Legal Form : |
Corporation – Profit |
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Line of Business : |
designs, manufactures, and supplies wire and cable products. |
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No. of Employees : |
4500 |
RATING & COMMENTS
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MIRA’s Rating : |
Ba |
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RATING |
STATUS |
PROPOSED CREDIT LINE |
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41-55 |
Ba |
Overall operation is considered normal. Capable to meet normal
commitments. |
Satisfactory |
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Status : |
Good |
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Payment Behaviour : |
No Complaints |
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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
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Country Name |
Previous Rating (31.12.2012) |
Current Rating (31.03.2013) |
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United
States |
A1 |
A1 |
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Risk Category |
ECGC
Classification |
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Insignificant |
A1 |
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Low |
A2 |
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Moderate |
B1 |
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High |
B2 |
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Very High |
C1 |
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Restricted |
C2 |
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Off-credit |
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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.
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Source : CIA |
Company name: SUPERIOR ESSEX INC.
Address: 6120 Powers Ferry Road NW, Ste 150,
Atlanta, GA 30339 - USA
Telephone: +1
770-657-6000
Fax: +1 770-657-6439
Website: www.superioressex.com
Corporate ID#: 3702620
State: Delaware
Judicial form: Corporation – Profit
Date incorporated: 09-26-2003
Date founded: 1954
Stock: 40,000,000
shares
Value: USD
0.01= par value
Name of manager: Justin
F. DEEDY
Business:
Superior Essex, Inc. designs, manufactures, and
supplies wire and cable products.
It offers premises copper, fire alarm and security,
premises fiber, OSP fiber, OSP composites, OSP broadband copper, central office
copper, RDUP/RUS OSP copper, bell OSP copper, OSP copper wire, Canadian OSP
copper, wireless products, and FTTP closures and accessories.
The company also provides fabricated insulation
products to original equipment manufacturers for use in motors, transformers,
generators, and electrical controls. In addition, it offers low voltage, energy
efficient cable products to service the commercial, industrial, and utility
markets for control systems, audio, intercoms, energy management, and alarm
controls.
The company sells its products through distributors
in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific.
Superior Essex, Inc. was formerly known as Superior
Telecom Inc. and changed its name to Superior Essex, Inc. in 1998.
The company was founded in 1954 and is based in
Atlanta, Georgia.
As of August 4, 2008, Superior Essex, Inc. operates
as a subsidiary of LS Corp.
Suppliers include:
HOMELEK TRADING CO.,LTD
13/F TUNG SUN, COMMERCIAL CENTRE 200 LOCKHART RD, WANCHAI, HONG KONG
LIAONING WANRONG TRADING CO., LTD.
2, XINGHE STREET, ZHONGSHAN DISTRICT
DALIAN 116001, CHINA
EIN: 20-0282396
Staff: 4,500
Operations & branches:
At the headquarters, we find the corporate office, on lease.
The Company maintains factories located:
1601 Wall Street
Fort Wayne, IN 46802
2900 Morris Sheppard Drive
Brownwood, TX 76801
2801 Anaconda Rd
Tarboro, NC 27886
Shareholders:
LS CORP.
12-17F LS Tower 1026-6
Hogye-dong Dongann-gu
Anyang, 431-080
South Korea
LS Corp., through its subsidiaries, engages in the
electrical, electronic, and material businesses in South Korea and
internationally.
The company manufactures and markets electric and
telecommunication cables, and other products for the energy, infrastructure,
construction, automotive, railway, telecommunications, and electronics
industries.
It also offers over head transmission lines, bus
duct systems, voltage cables, and industrial specialty cables and systems;
telecommunication cables; industrial modules, automotive wires and cables, and
tube components; and industrial materials, such as magnet wires, copper rods,
aluminum materials, and rubber tiles.
In addition, the company manufactures and sells
power transmission and distribution equipment; electric equipment; automation
equipment and systems; copper tubes and STS pipes; and industrial IT systems.
Further, it produces copper products, including electrolytic copper cathode and
Ferro sand; chemicals comprising sulfuric acid, pure sulfuric acid for
semiconductors, liquid sulfur trioxide, liquid sulfur dioxide, gypsum, and
liquid argon; and precious metals, such as gold, silver, platinum, palladium,
and selenium for use as industrial raw materials, as well as for accessories
and art. Additionally, the company manufactures and sells machinery, such as
tractors, injection molding machines, and air conditioning systems, as well as
engages in assembly and supply of track shoes and spare parts for combat
vehicles for Korean armed forces. It also offers ultra-capacitors, a
next-generation energy storage device for automotives and industrial power
systems; automotive rubber hoses; circuit materials, including copper foils,
flexible copper clad laminates, and antennas for RFID tag; and connectors and
antennas.
LS Corp. was founded in 1936 and is based in
Anyang, South Korea.
The Company is publicly trade with the South Korean
Stock.
Management:
Justin F. Deedy, Jr., President and CEO
He has been Chief Executive Officer and President of Superior Essex,
Inc. since March 1, 2013. Mr. Deedy served as Chief Operating Officer of
Superior Essex, Inc. from October 2011 to March 1, 2013 and its Executive Vice
President and President of Communications Group of Superior Essex Inc. since
November 10, 2003. Mr. Deedy served as an Executive Vice President of Superior
TeleCom and President of Superior TeleCom's subsidiary that comprised its
communications segment from June 1999 to November 10, 2003.
He served as the Senior Vice President of Superior TeleCom from July
1996 to June 1999 and President of Superior TeleCom's wholly-owned subsidiary,
Superior Telecommunications Inc., from July 1993 to December 1999, when
Superior Telecommunications was merged with and into another wholly-owned
subsidiary of Superior TeleCom as part of an internal reorganization.
David S. ALDRIDGE is the CFO.
As far as we know,
they are involved in several other corporations of the group, including:
SUPERIOR ESSEX COMMUNICATIONS LP
2900 Morris Sheppard Drive
Brownwood, TX 76801
SUPERIOR ESSEX ENERGY INC.
2900 Morris Sheppard Drive
Brownwood, TX 76801
In United States, privately
held corporations are not required to publish any financials.
On a direct call, a financial
assistant controlled the present report but deferred any financials.
We sent a fax but no answer
received.
Outside sources (bank) gave
estimate sales for year 2012 in the range of
USD 600,000,000=
The business is profitable.
Banks: JPMorgan Chase Bank
Legal filings
& complaints:
As of today date, there is no legal filing pending with the Courts.
Secured debts summary (UCC):
None (in Georgia)