MIRA INFORM REPORT

Report Date :

27.11.2014

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

Name :	MAX APEX LTD.

Registered Office :	c/o Regus Business Services (HK) Ltd. Room 1226, 12/F., QRC, 100 Queen’s Road Central

Country :	Hong Kong

Date of Incorporation :	07.01.2010

Com. Reg. No.:	51730494

Legal Form :	Private Limited Company

Line of Business :	Subject is a fashion trader of all kinds of fashions, including sarees, wedding trousseau and embroidery products

No. of Employees :	01

RATING & COMMENTS

MIRA’s Rating :

RATING		STATUS	PROPOSED CREDIT LINE
26-40	B	Capability to overcome financial difficulties seems comparatively below average.	Small

Status :	Very Small Company
Payment Behaviour :	Unknown
Litigation :	Clear

NOTES :

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ECGC Country Risk Classification List – June 1, 2014

Country Name

Previous Rating

(31.03.2014)

Current Rating

(01.06.2014)

Hong Kong

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 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

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(Formerly located at:

c/o Buttar.HK Ltd.

Unit M, 1/F., Mau Lam Commercial Building, 16-18 Mau Lam Street, Jordan, Kowloon, Hong Kong.)

Company name and address

MAX APEX LTD.

ADDRESS:

c/o Regus Business Services (HK) Ltd.

Room 1226, 12/F., QRC, 100 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong.

E-MAIL: a_punit@hotmail.com

MANAGEMENT

Managing Director: Mr. Punit Agarwal

SUMMARY

Incorporated on: 7th January, 2010.

Organization: Private Limited Company.

Capital: Nominal:HK$10,000,000.00

Issued: HK$7,932,000.00

Business Category: Fashion Trader.

Employee: 1.

Main Dealing Banker: Indian Overseas Bank, Hong Kong Branch.

Banking Relation: Satisfactory

ADDRESS

Registered Office:-

c/o Regus Business Services (HK) Ltd.

Room 1226, 12/F., QRC, 100 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong.

Holding Company:-

Tanaya Enterprises Private Ltd., India.

Associated Companies:-

Promart Retail India Pvt. Ltd., India.

VEMB Lifestyle LLC, UAE.

VEMB Lifestyle Pvt. Ltd., India.

VEMB Retail India Pvt. Ltd., India.

BUSINESS REGISTRATION NUMBER

51730494

COMPANY FILE NUMBER

1409139

MANAGEMENT

Managing Director: Mr. Punit Agarwal

CAPITAL

Nominal Share Capital: HK$10,000,000.00 (Divided into 10,000,000 shares of HK$1.00 each)

Issued Share Capital: HK$7,932,000.00

SHAREHOLDER: (As per registry dated 07-01-2014)

Name

No. of shares

Tanaya Enterprises Private Ltd.

15/16 Krishna Complex A Wing, 4/F., Off Subhash Road A Vile Parle (East), Mumbai 400057, India.

7,932,000

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DIRECTOR: (As per registry dated 07-01-2014)

Name

(Nationality)

Address

Punit AGARWAL

2 Shweta Building, Port No. 42 Gulmohar Cross Road, No. 1 J.V.P.D. Scheme Juhu Mumbai 400049, India.

SECRETARY: (As per registry dated 07-01-2014)

Name	Address	Co. No.
Buttar.HK Ltd.	1/F., Mau Lam Commercial Building, 16-18 Mau Lam Street, Jordan, Kowloon, Hong Kong.	0975326

HISTORY

The subject was incorporated on 7th January, 2010 as a private limited liability company under the Hong Kong Companies Ordinance.

Formerly the subject’s registered address was located at Unit M, 1/F., Mau Lam Commercial Building, 16-18 Mau Lam Street, Jordan, Kowloon, Hong Kong where was the operating office of a commercial service provider Buttar.HK Ltd. It moved to the present address in December 2013 as it has changed its commercial service provider since then.

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

OPERATIONS

Activities: Fashion Trader.

Lines: All kinds of fashions, including sarees, wedding trousseau and embroidery products

Employee: 1.

Commodities Imported: China, India, other Asian countries, etc.

Markets: India, other Asian countries, Middle East, etc.

Terms/Sales: As per contracted.

Terms/Buying: Various terms.

FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Nominal Share Capital: HK$10,000,000.00 (Divided into 10,000,000 shares of HK$1.00 each)

Issued Share Capital: HK$7,932,000.00

Mortgage or Charge: (See attachment)

Profit or Loss: Keeping a balance account in 2013.

Condition: Business is not very active in Hong Kong.

Facilities: Making fairly active use of general banking facilities.

Payment: Unknown

Commercial Morality: Satisfactory.

Bankers:-

Indian Overseas Bank, Hong Kong Branch.

Bank of India, Hong Kong Branch.

Bank of Baroda, Hong Kong Branch.

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

Standing: Small.

GENERAL

Having issued 7,932,000 ordinary shares of HK$1.00 each, Max Apex Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tanaya Enterprises Private Ltd. [Tanaya] which is an India-based firm. The only director of the subject Punit Agarwal is an Indian. He is a Hong Kong ID Card holder and has got the right to reside in Hong Kong permanently. However, we do not know his permanent residential address in Hong Kong.

The subject does not have its own operating office. Its registered office is in a commercial service firm located at Room 1226, 12/F., QRC, 100 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong known as “Regus Business Services (HK) Ltd.” [Regus] which is handling its correspondences and documents. The subject has rented a small room or booth in Regus.

Agarwal claimed to be the second generation entrepreneur hailing from a family with business interests in retailing of sarees, wedding trousseau and embroidery (domestic and exports).

In August 2003 Agarwal went independent and started Vaishali Enterprises and within 2 years became a private limited company and formed VEMB Lifestyle Pvt. Ltd. VEMB Lifestyle managed to create in roads into some of the leading fashion houses of Europe doing embroidery for their garments.

Around 2005, VEMB Lifestyle set up a garmenting unit catering to overseas clients. This was the first non embroidery business interests.

In 2007, Agarwal forayed into retail with the launch of Marc Cain (A German Fashion Label) in India and this was followed up with the launch of the first store of VEMB Fabrics in 2008 in Mumbai.

In 2008, he and his team formed a company Tanaya. This company was formed to import raw materials and commodities from China and other major countries of the world.

In 2010, Agarwal formed a company in the United Arab Emirates known as VEMB Lifestyle LLC and forayed into retailing in the country with the launch of Marc Cain in Dubai.

In 2011, Agarwal set up the second store of MARC CAIN in Juhu Mumbai and also the second store of VEMB Fabrics in Pune. He simultaneously acquired Promart a Division of Provogue. Promart is a multi brand discount store model. The first store of Promart was launched by Promart Retail India Private Limited [Promart Retail]. Agarwal is the CEO of Promart Retail.

Promart Retail owns and operates multi-brand retail stores in India. The retail stores offer apparel, accessories, bed linen, home furnishings, kid’s toys, and electronics for men, women, and kids of all age groups at discounted rates. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Mumbai, India. As of November 13, 2011, Promart Retail operates as a joint venture between Apple Group Of Companies and VEMB Lifestyle Pvt. Ltd. each holding 50% stake.

Agarwal is also the managing director of VEMB Retail India Pvt. Ltd. [VEMB Retail], also an India-based company.

Agarwal’s business in India is active. The business of the subject is chiefly handled by him.

The subject’s business in Hong Kong seems improving. History in Hong Kong is over four years and nine months.

Since the history of the subject is short in Hong Kong, consider it good for business engagements on L/C basis or in very small credit amounts.

MORTGAGE OR CHARGE

Date	Description of Instrument	Mortgagee
27-01-2011	Undertaking Relating to Deposits	Indian Overseas Bank, Hong Kong Branch.
01-06-2011	Undertaking Relating to Deposits	Indian Overseas Bank, Hong Kong Branch.
23-08-2011	Memorandum	Bank of Baroda, Hong Kong Branch.
13-02-2014	Letter of Set-Off & Appropriation	Bank of India, Hong Kong Branch.
28-05-2014	Charge Over Securities and Deposits with the Bank (Limited Company) (Limited Amount)	The Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp. Ltd., Hong Kong.
28-05-2014	Assignment of Receivables – General	The Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp. Ltd., Hong Kong.

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

Currency	Unit	Indian Rupees
US Dollar	1	Rs.61.87
UK Pound	1	Rs.97.23
Euro	1	Rs.77.21

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
--	NB	New Business	--

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Financial condition (40%) Ownership background (20%) Payment record (10%)

Credit history (10%) Market trend (10%) Operational size (10%)

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