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Report No. : |
355217 |
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Report Date : |
22.12.2015 |
IDENTIFICATION DETAILS
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Name : |
SAMIR GEMS ISRAEL LTD. |
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Formerly Known As : |
ACE DIAMONDS LTD |
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Registered Office : |
21
Tuval Street Diamond Exchange, Yahalom Bldg. Ramat Gan 5252236 |
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Country : |
Israel |
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Date of Incorporation : |
27.06.2000 |
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Legal Form : |
Private limited company |
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LINE OF BUSINESS : |
TRADERS, IMPORTERS, EXPORTERS AND
MARKETERS OF ALL TYPES OF DIAMONDS. |
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No. of Employee : |
Sole employee |
RATING & COMMENTS
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MIRA’s Rating : |
B |
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RATING |
STATUS |
PROPOSED CREDIT LINE |
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26-40 |
B |
Capability to overcome financial difficulties seems comparatively
below average. |
Small |
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Status : |
Moderate |
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Payment Behaviour : |
Unknown |
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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 – March 31, 2015
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Country Name |
Previous Rating (31.12.2014) |
Current Rating (31.03.2015) |
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Israel |
B1 |
B1 |
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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 |
D |
ISRAEL - ECONOMIC
OVERVIEW
Israel has a technologically advanced market economy. Cut diamonds, high-technology equipment, and pharmaceuticals are among the leading exports. Its major imports include crude oil, grains, raw materials, and military equipment. Israel usually posts sizable trade deficits, which are covered by tourism and other service exports, as well as significant foreign investment inflows. Between 2004 and 2013, growth averaged nearly 5% per year, led by exports. The global financial crisis of 2008-09 spurred a brief recession in Israel, but the country entered the crisis with solid fundamentals, following years of prudent fiscal policy and a resilient banking sector. Israel's economy also has weathered the Arab Spring because strong trade ties outside the Middle East have insulated the economy from spillover effects. Slowing demand domestically and internationally and reduced investment due to uncertainties caused by the Gaza conflict in summer 2014 have reduced GDP growth to about 2% during 2014. Natural gas fields discovered off Israel's coast since 2009 have brightened Israel's energy security outlook. The Tamar and Leviathan fields were some of the world's largest offshore natural gas finds this past decade. The massive Leviathan field is expected to come online no sooner than 2017, but production from Tamar provided a one percentage point boost to Israel's GDP in 2013 and a 0.5% boost in 2014. In mid-2011, public protests arose around income inequality and rising housing and commodity prices. Israel's income inequality and poverty rates are among the highest of OECD countries and there is a broad perception among the public that a small number of "tycoons" have a cartel-like grip over the major parts of the economy. The government formed committees and has started splitting up the oligopolies to address some of the grievances but has maintained that it will not engage in deficit spending to satisfy populist demands. Over the long term, Israel faces structural issues, including low labor participation rates for its fastest growing social segments - the ultra-orthodox and Arab-Israeli communities. Also, Israel's progressive, globally competitive, knowledge-based technology sector employs only 9% of the workforce, with the rest employed in manufacturing and services - sectors which face downward wage pressures from global competition.
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Source
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SAMIR
GEMS ISRAEL LTD.
Telephone 972 3
612 91 21
Fax 972
3 612 91 31
Email: Israel@samirgems.com
21
Tuval Street
Diamond
Exchange, Yahalom Bldg.
RAMAT GAN 5252236 ISRAEL
A
private limited company, incorporated as per file No. 51-297346-2 on the
27.06.2000. Started operations in 2001.
Originally registered under the
name ACE DIAMONDS LTD., which changed to the present name on the 21.11.2013
Authorized
share capital of NIS 39,000.00, divided into:
39,000 ordinary shares of NIS
1.00 each,
of
which 100 shares amounting to NIS 100.00 were issued.
Subject is fully owned by
Bhavesh Shah.
Based on the Registrar of
Companies, until 2011/12 Mr. Dwang Bensli used to be the controlling
shareholder in subject, holding 85%, while Mr. Shah held 15%. At some stage during
the last years Mr. Shah gained full ownership of subject.
Bhavesh Shah
Traders,
importers, exporters and marketers of all types of diamonds.
Subject
is part of a Group of companies, SAMIR GEMS Group, which is family owned.
Operating from office premises,
owned by SAMIR GEMS Group, in 21 Tuval Street (also referred to as 54 Bezalel
Street), Diamond Exchange, Room 1085, Yahalom Building, Ramat Gan. SAMIR GEMS
Group has branches in Belgium, Hong Kong, India, Dubai and other places,
branches which also serve subject.
Subject's
shareholder/manager is the sole employee (same as 2014 and 2013).
Financial
data not forthcoming.
There are 2 charges for unlimited amounts registered on the
company's assets, in favor of Mizrahi Tefahot Bank Ltd. Charges were placed in
years 2003 and in 2010.
Sales
figures not forthcoming.
Also
part of SAMIR GEMS Group:
SAMIR
GEMS NV., Belgium
SAMIR GEMS HK LIMITED, Hong Kong
Samir Gems DMCC, UAE
Mizrahi Tefahot Bank Ltd., Diamond Business Center Branch
(No. 466), Ramat Gan.
The
State Bank of India (SBI), Main Branch (No. 001), Ramat Gan.
Nothing
unfavorable learned.
Subject’s
General Manager, Mr. Bhavesh Shah, refused to disclose financial data, as well
as several other business data.
Subject
is known to be enjoying good reputation in the diamond branch.
SAMIR GEMS
was founded in 1982
Israel's
diamond industry continued the growth trend in all trade parameters in 2014,
after the impressive growth in 2013 in most parameters, based on the data by
Israel's Diamond Administration (IDA) at the Ministry of Economics: Net export
of polished diamonds rose by 0.6% from 2013, reaching US$6.269 billion (after
rising 11.6% in 2013), and net rough diamond exports totaled US$3.061 billion
in 2014, up 4.2% from 2013 (after a mere rise in 2013). The market has been
volatile over the last years after experiencing its worst depression due to the
global economic crisis, then recovered in 2010 but fell again in 2012.
The
recovery in 2013 and 2014 is positive news for the local branch (still away
from its peak on the eve of the crisis with export of polished diamonds of US$
7 billion), however it is reported that profit margins have been decreasing due
to smaller gaps between rough and polished diamond prices (leading the diamond
dealers to search for new rough sources in hope to decrease costs). Overall,
IDA reports that 2014 was tough year for the diamond industry in Israel and
globally.
In
addition, the local diamond sector has been negatively affected by 2 other
significant factors: the production of counterfeit diamonds, whose quality
keeps improving (harming the raw diamonds market) and the "underground
bank" affair – see below. As a result, local diamond dealers report on
difficulties in executing transactions and bad atmosphere in the branch.
The
data published for the 1st half of 2015 (compared to 1stH 2014)
points on a negative reverse trend in all parameters: Net export of polished
diamonds represents 17% decrease, reaching US$2,975 million, and net rough
diamond exports decreased by 22%, totaled US$ 1,361 million. Net imports of
polished diamonds fell by 17%, reaching US$ 1,793 million, while net import of
rough diamonds fell 21% totaling US$ 1,623 million.
The
United States continued to be Israel’s major market for polished diamonds,
accounting for 44% of the market in the 1stH 2015 (some recovery from 39% in
latest years). Hong Kong is 2nd largest market with 31% of exports
(30% in 2014), then Switzerland 10%, Belgium 6.5%, and U.K. accounting for 2.4%
of Israel's polished diamond export.
According
to the President of the Israeli Diamonds Association, in 2010 the trade in the
local diamond sector rolled annual turnover of US$ 25 billion while total debt
to the banks stood on US$ 1.5 billion, down from US$ 2.4 billion in the eve of
the global crisis.
In
February 2009, Israel was ranked as the world’s largest exporter of cut
diamonds, followed by India, Belgium and South Africa.
An
affair of an underground bank shocked the local diamond branch, after in late
January 2012 Police raided the Diamond Exchange (after a long undercover
operation), arrested several individuals for investigation, caught diamonds and
various assets worth NIS millions, and blocked several bank accounts. It is
suspected that a group of people, including diamond dealers, run an illegal
bank in the Diamond Exchange compound for loans, money transfer abroad based on
fictitious transactions and exchange in volume of NIS 1 billion for several
years.
The
affair led to several of reported bankruptcies of local diamond firms, a
decrease of up to 70% in transactions in 2012, frozen bank accounts, and for a
while to paralysis (especially in purchase of raw diamonds) due to uncertainty
among local and foreign dealers.
In
March 2012 the Police decided to lower the profile of the investigation for a
while a result of the big pressure from the diamond branch (to stop the
continuing damage inflicted) and the Government (who is losing US$ hundred
millions from decrease in tax collection). In November 2012 the Police and Tax
Authorities recommended on indictments against the 25 suspects in the affair,
among them diamond dealers, for the said suspicions and obstruction of the
investigation.
In
June 2013 it was reported that the Police resumed its raids on the diamonds
branch, and although names of suspects were not released, sources said that it
is also related to the above underground bank affair. In parallel, it is also
reported that the Tax Authorities and diamonds dealers' representatives are
trying to reach an arrangement for past debts.
Since
mid-2014 the State Attorney started to file indictments against central
defendants in the affair, initially against
dealers who provided foreign currency services to the "underground
bank", for felonies of money laundering and tax evasion in volumes of US$
millions (in June 2015 the court made the first conviction in the affair,
sending a foreign currency dealer who pretended also to be a diamond dealer,
for 4 years prison and a fine, part of a plea bargain), and in October 2015
indictments for severe charges pressed against 5 diamond firms and persons for
felonies committed in volumes of millions US$.
Notwithstanding the refusal to
disclose financial details, considered good for trade engagements.
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
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Currency |
Unit
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Indian Rupees |
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US Dollar |
1 |
Rs.66.32 |
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1 |
Rs.98.99 |
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Euro |
1 |
Rs.72.13 |
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ILS |
1 |
Rs.16.98 |
Note :
Above are approximate rates obtained from sources believed to be correct
INFORMATION DETAILS
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Analysis Done by
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TRI |
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Report Prepared
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TRU |
RATING EXPLANATIONS
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RATING |
STATUS |
PROPOSED CREDIT LINE |
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>86 |
Aaa |
Possesses an extremely sound financial base with the strongest
capability for timely payment of interest and principal sums |
Unlimited |
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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 |
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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 |
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41-55 |
Ba |
Overall operation is considered normal. Capable to meet normal
commitments. |
Satisfactory |
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26-40 |
B |
Capability to overcome financial difficulties seems comparatively
below average. |
Small |
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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 |
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<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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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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