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Report Date : |
29.05.2014 |
IDENTIFICATION DETAILS
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Name : |
MET ONE
INSTRUMENTS, INC. |
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Registered Office : |
1600 NW Washington Blvd, Grant Pass, OR 97526 |
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Country : |
United States |
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Year of Establishment : |
1976 |
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Legal Form : |
Corporation – Profit |
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Line of Business : |
· engaged in the research, development, and manufacture of meteorological instruments, particulate monitors, data loggers, and environmental software for meteorology and particulate monitoring applications worldwide. Subject offers weather stations, automatic weather
monitoring system, air quality monitors, ambient particulates, air quality
and indoor particle counters, datalogger communication devices, and
meteorological accessories. Subject also provides installation and maintenance
services. |
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No of Employees : |
115 |
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 |
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Overall operation is considered normal. Capable to meet normal
commitments. |
Satisfactory |
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Status : |
Satisfactory |
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Payment Behaviour : |
Slow But Correct |
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Litigation : |
Exists |
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 31, 2014
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Country Name |
Previous Rating (31.12.2013) |
Current Rating (31.03.2014) |
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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 Risk |
A2 |
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Moderate Low Risk |
B1 |
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Moderate Risk |
B2 |
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Moderate High Risk |
C1 |
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High Risk |
C2 |
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Very High Risk |
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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 was designed to 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 (Fed) 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
below 6.5% or inflation rises above 2.5%. In late 2013, the Fed announced that
it would begin scaling back long-term bond purchases to $75 billion per month
in January 2014 and reduce them further as conditions warranted; the Fed,
however, would keep short-term rates near zero so long as unemployment and
inflation had not crossed the previously stated thresholds. 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.
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Source : CIA |
Company name: MET ONE INSTRUMENTS, INC.
Address: 1600 NW Washington Blvd, Grant Pass,
OR 97526 - USA
Telephone: +1
541-476-7111
Fax: +1 541-471-7116
Website: www.metone.com
Corporate ID#: 162145-87
State: Oregon
Judicial form: Corporation – Profit
Date incorporated: 06-22-1989
Date founded: 1976
Name of manager: Thomas
L. POTTBERG
Business:
Met One Instruments, Inc. engages in the research, development, and
manufacture of meteorological instruments, particulate monitors, data loggers,
and environmental software for meteorology and particulate monitoring
applications worldwide.
It offers weather stations, automatic weather monitoring system, air
quality monitors, ambient particulates, air quality and indoor particle
counters, datalogger communication devices, and meteorological accessories. The
company also provides installation and maintenance services. It offers its
products through distributors; and directly.
Met One Instruments, Inc. was founded in 1976 and is based in Grants
Pass, Oregon with facilities in Grants Pass, Oregon, and Rowlett, Texas.
The Company exports to South and Central America.
Office of the Foreign Assets Control (OFAC):
· The company is not listed on the OFAC list.
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.
EIN: 93-1007023
Staff: 115
Operations & branches:
At the headquarters, we
find a factory, warehouse and office, owned.
The Company maintains a sales office located:
3206 Main Street, Suite 106
Rowlett, TX 75088
Ph: +1 972-412-4747
Fx: +1 972-412-4716
Shareholders:
This is a POTTBERG family owned and managed company.
Management:
Thomas L. POTTBERG is the President, Director and CEO
Johann M. POTTBERG is Secretary
Riley LOFTIN is the CFO
As far as we know, they are not involved in other local corporations.
Subsidiaries and partnership:
None
In United States, privately
held corporations are not required to publish any financials.
On a direct call, a
Secretary controlled the present report but deferred any financials.
Sales declared for year
2013 is in the range of USD 20,000,000=
The business is said to be
profitable.
Banks: Keybank
975 Oak Street, Eugene, OR 97440
Ph: +1 541-484-3484
Legal filings
& complaints:
State: Oregon
Case number: 1:08-cv-03016-CL
Plaintiff: Aleksandr L. Yufa
Defendant: Met One Instruments, Inc. et al
Mark D. Clarke, presiding
Date filed: 02/21/2008
Date of last filing: 02/28/2014
Secured debts summary (UCC):
None