MIRA INFORM REPORT

Report No. :	304480.2
Report Date :	22.08.2015

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

Name :	K + S KALI GMBH

Registered Office :	Bertha-von-Suttner-Str. 7 D 34131 Kassel

Country :	Germany

Date of Incorporation :	24.02.1997

Com. Reg. No.:	HRB 7452

Legal Form :	Private limited company

Line of Business :	Mining of chemical and fertilizer chemicals · Non-specialized wholesale of raw materials and half-finished and finished goods Management of real estate on a fee or contract basis

No. of Employee :	Not Available

RATING & COMMENTS

MIRA’s Rating :

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

Status :	Moderate

Payment Behaviour :	Unknown

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)

Germany

Risk Category	ECGC Classification
Insignificant	A1
Low	A2
Moderate	B1
High	B2
Very High	C1
Restricted	C2
Off-credit	D

GERMANY ECONOMIC OVERVIEW

The German economy - the fifth largest economy in the world in PPP terms and Europe's largest - is a leading exporter of machinery, vehicles, chemicals, and household equipment and benefits from a highly skilled labor force. Like its Western European neighbors, Germany faces significant demographic challenges to sustained long-term growth. Low fertility rates and declining net immigration are increasing pressure on the country's social welfare system and necessitate structural reforms. Reforms launched by the government of Chancellor Gerhard SCHROEDER (1998-2005), deemed necessary to address chronically high unemployment and low average growth, contributed to strong growth and falling unemployment. These advances, as well as a government subsidized, reduced working hour scheme, help explain the relatively modest increase in unemployment during the 2008-09 recession - the deepest since World War II - and its decrease to 5.2% in 2014. The new German government introduced a minimum wage of about $11.60 (8.50 euros) per hour to take effect in 2015. Stimulus and stabilization efforts initiated in 2008 and 2009 and tax cuts introduced in Chancellor Angela MERKEL's second term increased Germany's total budget deficit - including federal, state, and municipal - to 4.1% in 2010, but slower spending and higher tax revenues reduced the deficit to 0.8% in 2011 and in 2012 Germany reached a budget surplus of 0.1%. The budget was essentially in balance in 2014. A constitutional amendment approved in 2009 limits the federal government to structural deficits of no more than 0.35% of GDP per annum as of 2016 though the target was already reached in 2012. The German economy suffers from low levels of investment, and a government plan to invest 15 billion euros 2016-18, largely in infrastructure, is intended to spur needed private investment. Following the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, Chancellor Angela MERKEL announced in May 2011 that eight of the country's 17 nuclear reactors would be shut down immediately and the remaining plants would close by 2022. Germany plans to replace nuclear power with renewable energy, which accounted for 27.8% of gross electricity consumption in 2014, up from 9% in 2000. Before the shutdown of the eight reactors, Germany relied on nuclear power for 23% of its electricity generating capacity and 46% of its base-load electricity production. Extremely low inflation, caused largely by low global energy prices and a weak euro, are expected to boost German GDP growth in 2015.

Source : CIA

Company name and address

K + S KALI GMBH

In the meantime there have been changes in particular in the

following areas subject to monitoring:

- Legal form

- Financial information

- Solvency Rating

Company Status: active

Bertha-von-Suttner-Str. 7

D 34131 Kassel

Telephone:0561/93010

Telefax: 0561/93011753

Homepage: www.kali-gmbh.com

E-mail: info@kali-gmbh.com

VAT no.: DE217311877

CONCLUSION

Business relations are permissible.

Summary

LEGAL FORM Private limited company

Date of foundation: 24.02.1997

Begin of business

activities: 24.02.1997

Shareholders'

agreement: 24.02.1997

Registered on: 12.02.2001

Commercial Register: Local court 34117 Kassel

under: HRB 7452

Share capital

EUR 121,000,000.00

Shareholder:

K + S Aktiengesellschaft

Bertha-von-Suttner-Str. 7

D 34131 Kassel

Post Box:

10 20 29

Legal form: Public limited company

Share capital: EUR 191,400,000.00

Share: EUR 121,000,000.00

Registered on: 27.08.1971

Reg. data: 34117 Kassel, HRB 2669

Control and profit transfer agreement

Manager:

Ralf Diekmann

Georg-Büchner-Str. 1

D 31515 Wunstorf

authorized to jointly represent the company

born: 25.08.1954

Manager:

Dr. Ralph Jäger

D 34131 Kassel

born: 07.04.1964

Profession: Businessman

Marital status: unknown

Manager:

Alexa Hergenröther

D 37215 Witzenhausen

born: 19.05.1970