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Report No. : |
317906 |
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Report Date : |
18.04.2015 |
IDENTIFICATION DETAILS
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Name : |
MOCON INC. |
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Registered Office : |
7500 Mendelssohn Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55428 |
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Country : |
United States |
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Date of Incorporation : |
01.02.1966 |
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Legal Form : |
Public Company |
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Line of Business : |
Subject is manufacturers, and markets measurement, analytical,
monitoring, and consulting products to barrier packaging, food,
pharmaceutical, consumer products, industrial hygiene, air quality
monitoring, oil and gas exploration |
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No. of Employee : |
260 |
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 : |
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 – December 31, 2014
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Country Name |
Previous Rating (30.09.2014) |
Current Rating (31.12.2014) |
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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 |
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 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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MOCON INC.
7500 Mendelssohn Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55428 - USA
Telephone: +1 763-493-6370
Fax: +1 763-493-6358
Website: www.mocon.com
Corporate ID#: 1J-451
State: Minnesota
Judicial form: Public Company (Nasdaq = MOCO)
Date incorporated: February
1, 1966
Stock: 25,000,000
shares
(5,744,434 shares issued & outstanding as
of March 6, 2015)
Value: USD
0.10= par value
Name of manager: Robert L. DEMOREST
Business:
MOCON, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufacturers,
and markets measurement, analytical, monitoring, and consulting products to
barrier packaging, food, pharmaceutical, consumer products, industrial hygiene,
air quality monitoring, oil and gas exploration, and other industries
worldwide.
It’s Permeation Products and Services segment offers OX-TRAN systems for
oxygen transmission rates; PERMATRAN-W systems for water vapor transmission
rates; and PERMATRAN-C systems for carbon dioxide transmission rates; and
AQUATRAN, a trace moisture permeation analyzer.
This segment also provides laboratory testing services.
The company’s Package Testing Products and Services segment offers
headspace analyzer products under the PAC CHECK, CheckMate, CheckPoint, and MAP
Check 3 brands to analyze the amount and type of gas present in the headspace
of flexible and rigid packages; leak detection products under the LeakMatic II
and LeakPointer II brands to detect leaks in sterile medical trays, food
pouches, blister packs, and other sealed packages; and gas mixers, including
MAP Mix Provectus and MAP Mix 9001 on-line instruments that are used in the
food production environment.
Its Industrial Analyzer Products and Services and Other segment provides
gas chromatographs and total hydrocarbon analyzers that detect and measure
various gases continually or at regular intervals; gas sensors and detectors;
industrial analyzer products, sensors, and detectors for use in industrial
hygiene, hydrocarbon gas analysis for oil and gas exploration, contaminant
detection in the manufacture of specialty gases, and environmental monitoring;
and microbial detection products to detect microbial growth in food and
beverage samples This segment markets its industrial analyzers under the
PETROALERT, piD-TECH, and BEVALERT brands; and microbial detection products
under the GreenLight brand name.
MOCON, Inc. was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Minneapolis,
Minnesota
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.
No name of foreign suppliers available.
EIN: 41-0903312
Staff: 260
Operations & branches:
At the headquarters, we
find a factory, warehouse and office, owned.
The Company is listed with the Nasdaq under symbol MOCO.
As of 12-31-2015, 37% of the stock is held bt institutional and mutual
fund owners including:
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Wells Fargo & Company |
8.49% |
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Teton Advisors, Inc |
6.28% |
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Teton Westwood Mighty Mites Fd |
6.28% |
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Robert L. DEMOREST is the Chairman, President and CEO.
He has been the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Mocon
Inc., since April 2000. Mr. Demorest served as the President of Mocon Inc, for more
than five years. While at MOCON, his work has involved evaluating material
properties as used in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, packaging, coatings,
petroleum, electronics, automotive, medical, plastics, and high-barrier
industries. Mr. Demorest has over thirty years of experience in the
manufacturing of specialized scientific instrumentation and test systems.
He has been an Independent Director of Marten Transport Ltd. since
December 2007. He has been a Director at Mocon Inc, since 1995. He serves as a
Non-Executive Director of Luxcel Biosciences Ltd. He is active in numerous
trade associations, including ASTM, TAPPI, IOPP, ACS, and SPE. His articles
have appeared in trade periodicals such as Food & Drug Packaging,
Pharmaceutical Technology, the TAPPI Journal, the Journal of Film &
Sheeting and the Journal of Packaging Technology & Engineering.
Mr. Demorest holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of
Minnesota.
Donald N. DeMORETT has been the Chief Operating Officer of Mocon Inc.,
since January 14, 2013.
Mr. DeMorett is a Business Management Consultant specialising in
strategic planning and organizational development for primarily manufacturing
companies. He served as the President of Robert Bosch Packaging Technology,
Inc.
He served as President of TL Systems Corporation.
He has been a Director at Mocon Inc. since October 2006.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from St. Cloud State University,
an MBA from St. Thomas University, and graduated from the Minnesota Executive Program
at the Carlson School of Business at the University of Minnesota.
Elissa LINDSOE is the CFO.
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Baseline-MOCON, Inc. |
Colorado |
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MOCON GMBH |
Germany |
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MOCON (Shanghai) Trading Co., Ltd. |
China |
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MOCON Netherlands Holding B.V. |
Netherlands |
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Dansensor A/S |
Denmark |
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MOCON Luxembourg Sarl |
Luxembourg |
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MOCON Denmark Holding Aps |
Denmark |
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MOCON Denmark Financing I/S |
Denmark |
10K 204 on attachment
On March 5, 2015, MOCON Inc. announced consolidated earnings results for
the full year ended December 31, 2014.
For the full year, the company reported total sales were $64,475,000 compared
to $57,108,000 for the same period of last year. Operating income was
$3,764,000 compared to $4,783,000 for the same period of last year.
Income before income taxes was $3,458,000 compared to $4,424,000 for the
same period of last year.
Net income was $1,536,000 compared to $3,461,000 for the same period of
last year. Diluted earnings per share were $0.27 compared to $0.61 for the same
period of last year. Net cash provided by operations was $9,670,000 compared to
$3,596,000 for the same period a year ago.
EBITDA was $6,196,000 compared to $7,134,000 for the same period a year
ago. Adjusted EBITDA was $10,094,000 compared to $7,729,000 for the same period
a year ago.
Non-GAAP income was $4,707,000 compared to $3,461,000 for the same
period a year ago.
Diluted non-GAAP income per common share $0.82 compared to $0.61 for the
same period a year ago.
Banks: Wells Fargo Bank
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Legal filings & complaints:
As of today date, there is no legal filing pending with the Courts.
Secured debts summary (UCC):
None