MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

Report No. :

334178

Report Date :

01.08.2015

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Name :

MOSAIC CROP NUTRITION, LLC

 

 

Formerly Known As :

GNS III (U.S.), LLC

 

 

Registered Office :

13830 Circa Crossing Drive, Lithia, FL 33547

 

 

Country :

United States

 

 

Date of Incorporation :

24.03.2004

 

 

Legal Form :

LLC

 

 

Line of Business :

Subject is doing business as Mosaic Feed Ingredients, manufactures and sells fertilizer products such as phosphate and potash crop nutrients.

 

 

No. of Employees :

240

 

 

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:

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, 2015

 

Country Name

Previous Rating

(31.12.2014)

Current Rating

(31.03.2015)

United States

A1

A1

 

Risk Category

ECGC Classification

Insignificant

 

A1

Low

 

A2

Moderate

 

B1

High

 

B2

Very High

 

C1

Restricted

 

C2

Off-credit

 

D

 

 


 

UNITED STATES - ECONOMIC OVERVIEW

 

The US has the most technologically powerful economy in the world, with a per capita GDP of $54,800. In 2014, however, US GDP ran second to China’s, when compared on a Purchasing Power Parity basis; the US lost the top spot, where it had stood for more than a century. In the US, 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 has been a driving factor in 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. But the globalization of trade, and especially the rise of low-wage producers, has put additional downward pressure on wages and upward pressure on the returns to capital. 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 2014, the direct costs of the wars totaled more than $1.5 trillion, 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 dropped below 6.5% or inflation rose 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 ended the purchases during the summer of 2014. 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.

 

Source : CIA

 

 

Company Name and Summary

 

Company name:            MOSAIC CROP NUTRITION, LLC

 

Address:                       13830 Circa Crossing Drive, Lithia, FL 33547 - USA

 

Telephone:                    +1 813-671-6127

 

Fax:                              +1 813-671-6187

 

Website:                       www.mosaicco.com

 

 

Corporate ID#:               3781261

 

State:                           Delaware

 

 

Judicial form:                 LLC

 

Date incorporated:          03-24-2004

 

Stock:                           -

 

Value:                           -

 

Name of manager:          James T. PROKOPANKO

 

 

ACTIVITIES & OPERATIONS

 

IST

 

Business:

 

Mosaic Crop Nutrition, LLC, doing business as Mosaic Feed Ingredients, manufactures and sells fertilizer products such as phosphate and potash crop nutrients.

 

The company was formerly known as GNS III (U.S.), LLC and it changed its name to Mosaic Crop Nutrition, LLC in October, 2004.

 

The company was incorporated in 2004 and is based in Lithia, Florida.

 

Mosaic Crop Nutrition, LLC operates as a subsidiary of The Mosaic Company.

 

 

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:                  20-1026205

 

Staff:                 240

 

 

Operations & branches:

 

At the headquarters, we find a warehouse and office.

 

 

SHAREHOLDERS & MANAGERS

 

Shareholders:

 

The Mosaic Company
Atria Corporate Center, Suite E490
3033 Campus Drive
Plymouth, MN 55441

 

The Mosaic Company produces and markets concentrated phosphate and potash crop nutrients for the agricultural industry worldwide.

It operates through two segments, Phosphates and Potash.

The Company is listed with the NYSE under symbol MOS.

 

 

Management:

 

James T. PROKOPANKO is the President and CEO.

He has been the Chief Executive Officer and President of The Mosaic Company since January 1, 2007. Mr. Prokopanko served as the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President at The Mosaic Company since July 31, 2006. He served as the President of The Fertilizer Institute of Ontario. He served as Corporate Vice President of Cargill Procurement of Cargill, Incorporated from 2002 to 2006 and Cargill SA/NV since 2004. He served as a Senior Vice President of Cargill and Platform Leader of Cargills Ag Producer Service Platform since 1999. Mr. Prokopanko joined Cargill in 1978 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. From 1978 to 1981, he worked on various business expansions and acquisitions in the Financial Information Services group and from 1981 to 1983, led the development of Cargills fertilizer retail business in Western Canada. From 1984 to 1989, he served as an Assistant Vice President and Regional Manager of Cargills retail crop input and country grain elevator network in Alberta and British Columbia. He served as an Assistant Vice President and General Manager of Cargills Eastern Canada agriculture network of wholly owned stores, country elevators and joint ventures serving crop producers in Ontario and Quebec. Since 1995, he served as a Vice President of Cargills North American crop inputs business. In his career at Cargill, Mr. Prokopanko has been engaged in retail agriculture businesses in Canada, United States, Brazil, Argentina and the United Kingdom. He has been the Chairman of the Board at The Fertilizer Institute since February 7, 2012.

He serves as the Chairman of Canpotex Limited. He has been a Director of The Mosaic Company since October 2004 and Vulcan Materials Company since December 2009. He serves as a Trustee of Minnesota Public Radio Inc.

 

 

He serves as a Director of The Fertilizer Institute. He served as a Director of Children's Health Care Inc. He served on the board of directors of the Canadian Fertilizer Institute. Mr. Prokopanko holds an MBA from the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario and BS degree in Computer Science from the University of Manitoba.

 

Other Managers include Mark J. ISSACSON and Richard L. MARL.

 

As far as we know, they are involved in several other corporations of the group.

 

 

FINANCIALS

 

In United States, privately held corporations are not required to publish any financials.

 

On a direct call, a financial assistant controlled the present report.

 

Sales declared for year 2014 is in the range of USD 80,000,000+

 

The business is profitable.

 

Banks:  U.S. Bank

 

 

LEGAL FILINGS

 

Legal filings & complaints:

As of today date, there is no legal filing pending with the Courts.

 

Secured debts summary (UCC):  

None

 

 

COMPANY CREDIT HISTORY

 

Trade references:

 

Date reported:                July 2015

High credit:                    USD 18,000

Now owing:                    0

Past due:                      0

Last purchase:               June 2015

Line of business:            Office supply

Paying status:               On terms

 

Date reported:                July 2015

High credit:                    USD 350,000

Now owing:                    0

Past due:                      0

Last purchase:               June 2015

Line of business:            Payroll

Paying status:               As agreed

 

Date reported:                July 2015

High credit:                    USD 1,000

Now owing:                    0

Past due:                      0

Last purchase:               June 2015

Line of business:            Telecommunications

Paying status:               On terms

 

 

Domestic credit history:

National Credit Bureaus gave a satisfying credit risk.

According to our credit analysts, during the last 6 months, domestic payments were made on due date.

 

 

International credit history:

Payments of imports are currently made on terms.

 

 

Other comments:

The Company is developing a regular business.

The Company is in good standing.

This means that all local and federal taxes were paid on due date.

Last report was filed on April 8, 2015.

The risk is low.

 

 

Our opinion:

A business connection may be conducted.

 


 

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

 

Currency

Unit

Indian Rupees

US Dollar

1

Rs.64.01

UK Pound

1

Rs.99.84

Euro

1

Rs.70.16

 

INFORMATION DETAILS

 

Analysis Done by :

KAS

 

 

Report Prepared by :

NIT

 

 

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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