MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

Report Date :

27.08.2014

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Name :

IMC (HK) LTD.

 

 

Registered Office :

Unit 6, 6/F., Pacific Trade Centre, 2 Kai Hing Road, Kowloon Bay, Kowloon

 

 

Country :

Hong Kong

 

 

Date of Incorporation :

15.01.2003

 

 

Com. Reg. No.:

33354793

 

 

Legal Form :

Private Limited Company

 

 

Line of Business :

Importer, Wholesaler and Exporter of Chemicals, petrochemical products, hides & skins, leather, raw materials

 

 

No of Employees :

6

 

 

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 01, 2014

 

Country Name

Previous Rating

(31.03.2014)

Current Rating

(01.06.2014)

Hong Kong

A1

A1

 

Risk Category

ECGC Classification

Insignificant

 

A1

Low Risk

 

A2

Moderate Low Risk

 

B1

Moderate Risk

 

B2

Moderate High Risk

 

C1

High Risk

 

C2

Very High Risk

 

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 has no tariffs on imported goods, and it levies excise duties on only four commodities, whether imported or produced locally: 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, its continued reliance on foreign trade and investment leaves it vulnerable to renewed global financial market volatility or a slowdown in the global economy. 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 12% of total system deposits in Hong Kong by the end of 2013. 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 total trade 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. Credit expansion and tight housing supply conditions have caused Hong Kong property prices to rise rapidly; consumer prices increased by more than 4% in 2013. 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. In 2013, Hong Kong and China signed new agreements under the Closer Economic Partnership Agreement, adopted in 2003 to forge closer ties between Hong Kong and the mainland. The new measures, effective from January 2014, cover services and trade facilitation, and will improve access to the mainland's service sector for Hong Kong-based companies.

 

Source : CIA

 

 


COMPANY NAME & ADDRESS

 

IMC  (HK)  LTD.

 

 

ADDRESS:       Unit 6, 6/F., Pacific Trade Centre, 2 Kai Hing Road, Kowloon Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

 

PHONE:            852-2796 6488

 

FAX:                 852-2796 7416

 

 

MANAGEMENT

 

Managing Director:  Mr. Atluri Mallesh Rao

 

 

SUMMARY

 

Incorporated on:                         15th January, 2003.

 

Organization:                             Private Limited Company.

 

Capital: Nominal:                       US$475,000.00

            Issued:                          US$229,024.00

 

Business Category:                    Importer, Exporter and Wholesaler.

 

Employees:                               6.

 

Main Dealing Banker:                 Bank of India, Hong Kong Branch.

 

Banking Relation:                       Satisfactory.

 

 


Company name

 

IMC  (HK)  LTD.

 

 

ADDRESS

 

Registered Head Office:-

Unit 6, 6/F., Pacific Trade Centre, 2 Kai Hing Road, Kowloon Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

 

Immediate Holding Company:-

Imcola (Exports) Ltd.

232/A, Acharjya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road, Kolkata - 700 020, India.

[Tel: 91-22-2202 6677,   Fax: 91-22-2202 0638]

 

Ultimate Holding Company:-

IMC Ltd.

39, Kasturi Ranga Road, Alwarpet, Chennai 600 018, India.

[Tel: 91-44-2499 4880,  2499 4896,  2466 1892

Fax: 91-44-2466 1738     ]

 

Associated Company:-

Ritmus Ltd., Hong Kong.  (Same address)

[Tel: 852-2796 6488,   Fax: 852-2796 7416

E-mail: raja@pacific.net.hk         ]

 

 

BUSINESS REGISTRATION NUMBER

 

33354793

 

 

COMPANY FILE NUMBER

 

0829568

 

 

MANAGEMENT

 

Managing Director:  Mr. Atluri Mallesh Rao

 

 


CAPITAL

 

Nominal Share Capital:   US$475,000.00 (Divided into 475,000 shares of US$1.00 each)

 

Issued Share Capital:     US$229,024.00

 

 

SHAREHOLDERS

 

(As per registry dated 15-01-2014)

Name

 

No. of shares

Imcola (Exports) Ltd.

232/A, Acharjya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road, Kolkata - 700 020, India.

 

474,999

Atluri Mallesh RAO

 

1

 

 

–––––––

 

Total:

475,000

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DIRECTORS  

 

(As per registry dated 08-03-2014)

Name

(Nationality)

 

Address

Jade Nominees Ltd.

25/F., OTB Building, 160 Gloucester Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong.

 

Praveen Kumar CHOPRA

C-314 Defence Colony, New Delhi 110024, India.

 

Atluri Mallesh RAO

New No. 25, Old No. 12, Kasturi Ranga Road, Alwarpet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600 018, India.

 

 

SECRETARY

 

(As per registry dated 15-01-2014)

Name

Address

Co. No.

First Island Secretaries Ltd.

905 Silvercord, Tower 2, 30 Canton Road, Tsimshatsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

0049295

 

 


HISTORY

 

The subject was incorporated on 15th January, 2003 as a private limited liability company under the Hong Kong Companies Ordinance.

 

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

 

 

OPERATIONS

 

Activities:                                  Importer, Wholesaler and Exporter.

 

Lines:                                       Chemicals, petrochemical products, hides & skins, leather, raw materials, etc.

 

Employees:                               6.

 

Commodities Imported:               Mainly imported from India, etc.

 

Markets:                                   Hong Kong, China and other Asian countries.

 

Terms/Sales:                             On various terms.

 

Terms/Buying:                           As per contracted.

 

 

FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

Nominal Share Capital:               US$475,000.00 (Divided into 475,000 shares of US$1.00 each)

 

Issued Share Capital:                 US$229,024.00

 

Profit & Loss:                            Making a small profit every year.

 

Condition:                                  Business is normal.

 

Facilities:                                  Making rather active use of general banking facilities.

 

Payment:                                  Met trade commitments as required.

 

Commercial Morality:                 Satisfactory.

 

Bankesr:-

Bank of India, Hong Kong Branch.

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

 

Standing:                                  Normal.

 

 

GENERAL

 

Incorporated in January 2003, IMC (HK) Ltd. is a private limited company wholly-owned by Imcola (Exports) Ltd. [Imcola] which in turn is a subsidiary of IMC Ltd. [IMC], both are India-based firms.

 

The managing director of the subject Atluri Mallesh Rao is an India merchant.

 

Imcola is a sister concern of IMC Group of companies which initiated business with cane molasses trade in 1935.  Now its trading division is a full‑fledged commodity trader of agricultural products, minerals, chemicals and hydrocarbons.  It also imports caustic lye, ethyl alcohol, fuel oil, etc. and exports sugar, cane molasses, maize, iron ore, etc.  The subject is engaged in the same lines of business as IMC, more or less.

 

IMC, formerly known as The Indian Molasses Company, was set up in 1935 in India as a subsidiary of London-based UMC, primarily to import and export Molasses.  Since IMC’s operations are involved in storage and handling of molasses, it diversified into third party storage of bulk liquid cargo, in tune with the increasing demand for such services in India.  While IMC continues to be the leading exporter of molasses and is now a recognised trading house, the storage division has expanded its network of terminals to almost all the major ports in India, becoming the largest bulk liquid storage terminal service provider in India.

 

IMC also trades in the following products and chemicals: Acetic Acid, Acetone, Acrylonitrile, Base Oil, Benzene, Bitumen, Butadiene, Butanol, Butyl Acrylate, Carbon Black Feed Stock, Caustic Lye, Cumene, Cyclo‑Hexanone, Di-Iso Nonyl Phthalate [DINP], Edible Oils and Fats, Ethanol, Ethylene Di-Chloride, Furnace Oil, Hydrated Phenol and Pure Phenol, Iso Propyl Alcohol, Kerosene, Light Diesel Oil, Linear Alkyl Benzene, Lube Additives, Methanol, Methyl Iso Butyl Ketone [MIBK], Molasses, Mono Ethylene Glycol, N Paraffin, Naphtha, Petroleum Solvents, Solvent C-9, Styrene Monomer, Sulphuric Acid, Toluene, Xylenes, etc.

 

Today, IMC Group has a combined storage capacity of over 710,000 kl (m³) at 12 major ports.  There are more than 220 tanks currently in operation storing a variety of petrochemicals, chemicals, edible oils and fats, etc.

 

The terminals at Kandla, JNPT, Goa, Karwar, Mangalore, Chennai, Kakinada, Vizag, Kolkata and Haldia are licensed by the Chief Controller of Explosives of India for the storage of Petroleum Class products and hazardous chemicals.

 

The subject also trades in chemicals, petrochemicals, edible oils and fats.  Commodities are supplied by IMC.  Prime markets are Hong Kong, China and the other Asian countries.  Business is active and steady.

 

The subject has had an associated company Ritmus Ltd. [Ritmus] located at the same address.  Ritmus was incorporated on 8th February, 1980 in Hong Kong.  It is trading in hides and skins, leather, leather chemicals, raw materials, etc.  The contact person of Ritmus is also Atluri Mallesh Rao.

 

The subject is fully supported by IMC.

 

As the history of the subject is over 11 years in Hong Kong, on the whole, consider it good for normal business engagements.


 

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

 

Currency

Unit

Indian Rupees

US Dollar

1

Rs.60.50

UK Pound

1

Rs.100.33

Euro

1

Rs.79.91

 

 

INFORMATION DETAILS

 

Report Prepared by :

SMN

 

 

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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