MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

Report No. :

335530

Report Date :

11.08.2015

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Name :

MIKIMOTO PEARL JEWELLERY (HONG  KONG) LTD.

 

 

Registered Office :

Room 1406, 14/F., Block B, Sea View Estate, Watson Road, North Point

 

 

Country :

Hong Kong

 

 

Date of Incorporation :

18.08.1965

 

 

Com. Reg. No.:

01935139

 

 

Legal Form :

Private Limited Company

 

 

Line of Business :

Trader of Jewellery.

 

 

No. of Employee :

50.  (Including retailing outlet)

 

 

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 – March 31, 2015

 

Country Name

Previous Rating

(31.12.2014)

Current Rating

(31.03.2015)

Hong Kong

A1

A1

 

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 12.5% of total system deposits in Hong Kong by the end of 2014. 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 47.3 million in 2014, 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 2014 mainland Chinese companies constituted about 50% of the firms listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and accounted for about 60.1% 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 4.4% in 2014. 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 2014, Hong Kong and China signed a new agreement on achieving basic liberalization of trade in services in Guangdong Province under the Closer Economic Partnership Agreement, adopted in 2003 to forge closer ties between Hong Kong and the mainland. The new measures, effective from March 2015, cover a negative list and a most-favored treatment provision, and will improve access to the mainland's service sector for Hong Kong-based companies.

 

Source : CIA

 

 

Company name and address

 

MIKIMOTO PEARL JEWELLERY (HONG  KONG) LTD.

 

ADDRESS:       Room 1406, 14/F., Block B, Sea View Estate, Watson Road, North Point, Hong Kong.

 

PHONE:            852-2570 2226

 

FAX:                 852-2807 2490

 

 

MANAGEMENT:

 

Managing Director:  Mr. Toshiyuki Kumai

 

 

SUMMARY

 

Incorporated on:            18th August, 1965.

 

Organization:                 Private Limited Company.

 

Issued Share Capital:     HK$1,600,000.00

 

Business Category:       Jewellery Trader.

 

Employees:                  50.  (Including retailing outlet)

 

Main Dealing Banker:     The Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp. Ltd., Hong Kong.

 

Banking Relation:          Satisfactory.

 

 

ADDRESS

 

Registered Head Office:-

Room 1406, 14/F., Block B, Sea View Estate, Watson Road, North Point, Hong Kong.

 

Holding Company:-

K. Mikimoto & Co. Ltd., Japan.

 

 

BUSINESS REGISTRATION NUMBER

 

01935139

 

 

COMPANY FILE NUMBER

 

0011873

 

 

MANAGEMENT

 

Managing Director:        Mr. Toshiyuki Kumai

Contact Person:            Ms. Wu Yip Ling, Amanda

 

 

ISSUED SHARE CAPITAL

 

HK$1,600,000.00

 

 

SHAREHOLDERS

 

(As per registry dated 18-08-2014)

Name

 

No. of shares

K. Mikimoto & Co. Ltd.

4-5-5, Ginza, Chuo-Ku, Tokyo, Japan.

 

1,599

Mikimoto (America) Co. Ltd.

680 5th Avenue, 4th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10019-5429, U.S.A.

 

1

 

 

 

–––––

 

Total:

1,600

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DIRECTORS

 

(As per registry dated 18-08-2014)

Name

(Nationality)

 

Address

Mitsuhide NAKAGAWA

6-6-4-303, Takenodai, Nashi-ku, Kobe-shi, 651-2274, Japan.

 

Takahide AIDA

3-20-10, Nozawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

 

Yasuhiko HASHIMOTO

5-41-1-208, Yoyogi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

 

WU Yip Ling, Amanda

Flat A, 17/F., Tower 2, Hillsborough Court, 18 Old Peak Road, Mid-Level, Hong Kong.

 

Toshiyuki KUMAI

Flat B, 23/F., Tower 1m The Leighton Hill, 2B Broadwood Road, Happy Valley, Hong Kong.

 

 

SECRETARY

 

Toshiyuki KUMAI  (As per registry dated 18-08-2014)

 

 

HISTORY

 

The subject was incorporated on 18th August, 1965 as a private limited liability company under the Hong Kong Companies Ordinance.

 

The subject’s Chinese name was formally registered on 10th June, 2006.

 

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

 

 

OPERATIONS

 

Activities:                      Jewellery Trader.

 

Lines:                           All kinds of jewellery, pearl products

 

Employees:                  50.  (Including retailing outlet)

 

Commodities Imported: India, Europe, Asian countries

 

Markets:                       Hong Kong, other Asian countries, Europe, North America

 

Terms/Sales:                  As per contracted.

 

Terms/Buying:                L/C, T/T

 

 

FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

Issued Share Capital:     HK$1,600,000.00

 

Profit or Loss:               Making a small profit every year.

 

Condition:                     Keeping in a satisfactory manner.

 

Facilities:                      Making rather active use of general banking facilities.

 

Payment:                      Met trade commitments as required.

 

Commercial Morality:     Satisfactory.

 

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

 

Standing:                      Good.

 

 

GENERAL

 

Mikimoto Pearl Jewellery (Hong Kong) Ltd. is almost a wholly-owned subsidiary of K. Mikimoto & Co. Ltd. [K. Mikimoto] which is a Japan-based company.

 

The managing director of the subject Toshiyuki Kumai is a Japanese.  He is a Hong Kong ID holder and has got the right to reside in Hong Kong permanently.

 

The subject is a pearl and jewellery trader.  It trades in earrings, rings, necklaces, brooches, pendants, etc.  Most of the products bear the trade mark of Mikimoto.

 

K. Mikimoto operates as a Japanese jewellery company.  It operates specialty stores that offer pearls. K. Mikimoto was founded in the 1890’s and is based in Tokyo, Japan with stores in Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

 

K. Mikimoto became the first in the world to culture a semi-spherical pearl on 11th July, 1893.  The pearls are cultured in Mikimoto Pearl Island.

 

The subject’s products are marketed in Hong Kong, China and exported to the other Asian countries, Europe, North America, etc.  Business is satisfactory.

 

The subject has set up two retailing outlets in Hong Kong, one in Pacific Place, Admiralty while the other in Time Square, Causeway Bay.  Both are busy districts and frequented by tourists.

 

The contact person of the subject Wu Yip Ling, Amanda is a Hong Kong businesswoman.

 

As the history of the subject is about 50 years in Hong Kong, on the whole, consider it good for normal credit requirements.

 

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

 

Currency
Unit

Indian Rupees

US Dollar

1

Rs.63.76

UK Pound

1

Rs.98.76

Euro

1

Rs.69.88

 

 

INFORMATION DETAILS

 

Analysis Done by :

KAS

 

 

Report Prepared by :

ANK

 

 

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

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

 

 

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