MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

Report No. :

355740

Report Date :

24.12.2015

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Name :

X-RITE ASIA PACIFIC LTD.

 

 

Registered Office :

Suite 2801, 28/F., AXA Tower, Landmark East, 100 How Ming Street, Kwun Tong, Kowloon

 

 

Country :

Hong Kong

 

 

Date of Incorporation :

19.08.1993

 

 

Com. Reg. No.:

17538353

 

 

Legal Form :

Private Limited Company

 

 

Line of Business :

  • Marketing Office
  • Innovative colour solutions

 

 

No. of Employee :

25

 

 

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)

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

 

X-RITE ASIA PACIFIC LTD.

 

 

ADDRESS:                               Suite 2801, 28/F., AXA Tower, Landmark East, 100 How Ming Street, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

 

PHONE:                                    852-2368 7738,  2568 6283,  2535 1916

 

FAX:                                         852-2885 8610

 

E-MAIL:                                    info_ap@xrite.com

                                                matketing@x-rote.com

 

MANAGEMENT:

 

Managing Director & President:  Mr. Ronald William Voigt

 

 

SUMMARY

 

Incorporated on:                        19th August, 1993.

 

Organization:                             Private Limited Company.

 

Issued Share Capital:                 HK$100.00

 

Business Category:                   Marketing Office.

 

Group Turnover:                        US$19,913.8 million  (Year ended 31-12-2014)

 

Employees:                              25.

 

Main Dealing Banker:                 Citibank N.A., Hong Kong.

 

Banking Relation:                      Satisfactory.

 

 

ADDRESS

 

Registered Office:-

Suite 2801, 28/F., AXA Tower, Landmark East, 100 How Ming Street, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

 

Holding Company:-

X-Rite Europe GmbH, Switzerland.

 

Ultimate Holding Company:-

Danaher Corporation, USA.

 

Associated Companies:-

X-Rite GmbH, Germany.

X-Rite Incprorated, USA.

Danaher Group of Companies

 

 

BUSINESS REGISTRATION NUMBER

 

17538353

 

 

COMPANY FILE NUMBER

 

0445501

 

 

MANAGEMENT

 

Managing Director & President:  Mr. Ronald William Voigt

 

 

ISSUED SHARE CAPITAL

 

HK$100.00

 

 

SHAREHOLDER

 

(As per registry dated 19-08-2015)

Name

 

No. of shares

X-Rite Europe GmbH

Althardstrasse 70, 8105 Regensdorf, Switzerland.

 

100

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DIRECTORS

 

(As per registry dated 19-08-2015)

Name

(Nationality)

 

Address

Frank Talbot MC FADEN

9412 Crimson Leaf Terrace, Potomac, MD 20854-5491, USA.

 

Ronald William VOIGT

241 Saddleback DR. NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49525, USA.

 

Jeffrey Dominic MC KEE

5705 Manchester Hills Drive, S.E., Grand Rapids, Michigan 49546-9036, USA.

 

 

SECRETARY

 

(As per registry dated 19-08-2015)

Name

Address

Co. No.

Tricor Tengis Ltd.

Level 54, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Hong Kong.

0041027

 

 

HISTORY

 

The subject was incorporated on 19th August, 1993 as a private limited liability company under the Hong Kong Companies Ordinance.

 

It was originally registered under the name of Wimpole Ltd., name changed to the present style on 25th November, 1993.

 

Formerly the subject was located at 36/F., @Convoy, 169 Electric Road, North Point, Hong Kong, moved to the present address in November 2013.

 

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

 

 

OPERATIONS

 

Activities:                                  Marketing Office.

 

Lines:                                       Innovative colour solutions

 

Trade Mark:                               X-RITE”.

 

Employees:                              25.

 

Commodities Imported:             USA

 

Markets:                                    Hong Kong, China, Japan, other Asian countries

 

Group Turnover:                        US$12,550.0 million  (Year ended 31-12-2010)

US$16,090.5 million  (Year ended 31-12-2011)

US$18,260.4 million  (Year ended 31-12-2012)

US$19,118.0 million  (Year ended 31-12-2013)

US$19,913.8 million  (Year ended 31-12-2014)

US$13,929.8 million  (9 months ended 26-09-2014)

US$14,678.3 million  (9 months ended 02-10-2015)

 

Terms/Sales:                             As per contracted.

 

Terms/Buying:                           As per contracted.

 

 

FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

Issued Share Capital:                 HK$100.00

 

Group Net Income/(Loss):-

US$1,793.0 million  (Year ended 31-12-2010)

US$2,172.3 million  (Year ended 31-12-2011)

US$2,392.2 million  (Year ended 31-12-2012)

US$2,695.0 million  (Year ended 31-12-2013)

US$2,598.4 million  (Year ended 31-12-2014)

US$1,936.7 million  (9 months ended 26-09-2014)

US$2,668.8 million  (9 months ended 02-10-2015)

 

Profit or Loss:                           Group business is profitable.

 

Condition:                                  Keeping in a normal manner.

 

Facilities:                                  Making rather active use of general banking facilities.

 

Payment:                                  Met trade commitments as contracted.

 

Commercial Morality:                 Satisfactory.

 

Banker:                                     Citibank N.A., Hong Kong.

 

Standing:                                  Good.

 

 

GENERAL

 

Formerly X-Rite Asia Pacific Ltd. was equally owned by X-Rite Holdings Inc. and X‑Rite Global Incorporated, both were US-based firm.

 

Now, the subject is a wholly-owned subsidiary of X-Rite Europe GmbH, a Switzerland-based company.

In 2012, Danaher Corporation acquired X-Rite Inc. which was the subject’s intermediate holding company.

Danaher Corporation is a science and technology leader that designs, manufactures, and markets innovative products and services to professional, medical, industrial and commercial customers.  Its premier brands are among the most highly recognized in each of the markets they serve.  The Danaher Business System provides a foundation to its 59,000 associates around the world, serving customers in more than 125 countries.

 

Danaher’s product identification business is a leading global provider of equipment and consumables for variable printing, marking and coding on a wide variety of consumer and industrial products.  It entered the product identification market through the acquisition of Videojet in 2002, and has expanded its product and geographic coverage through various subsequent acquisitions.

 

Danaher’s product identification products are primarily marketed under the ESKO, FOBA, LINX, PANTONE, VIDEOJET and X-RITE brands.  Manufacturing facilities are located in North America, Europe, South America, and Asia.  Sales are generally made through its direct sales personnel and independent distributors.

 

Danaher has been listed on New York Stock Exchange.  It has had the following five segments:-

Test & Measurement;

Environmental;

Life Science & Diagnostics;

Dental; &

Industrial Technologies.

The subject belongs to the Industrial Technologies segment.  It helps protect the world’s food supply, improve packaging design and quality, verify pharmaceutical dosages and authenticity and power innovative machines.  Its product identification business develops and manufactures equipment, consumables and software for various printing, marking, coding, design and colour management applications on consumer and industrial products.  Its automation business provides mechanical and electromechanical motion control solutions for the automation market.  2014 sales for this segment by geographic destination were: North America, 45%; Europe, 30%; Asia/Australia, 17% and all other regions, 8%.  The Industrial Technologies segment consists of the following lines of business.

 

The Group entered the product identification market through the acquisition of Videojet in 2002, and have expanded its product and geographic coverage through various subsequent acquisitions, including the acquisitions of Willett International Limited in 2003, Linx Printing Technologies PLC in 2005, EskoArtwork in 2011 and X-Rite in 2012.  Its product identification businesses design, manufacture, and market the following products and services:

 

it provides a variety of equipment used to print bar codes, date codes, lot codes and other information on primary and secondary packaging.  Its equipment can apply high-quality alphanumeric codes, logos and graphics to a wide range of surfaces at a variety of line speeds, angles and locations on a product or package.

 

it is a leading global supplier of integrated solutions for packaging, sign and display finishing, commercial printing and professional publishing.  It provides software for artwork creation, structural design, workflow automation, quality assurance and online collaboration, flexo computer-to-plate imagers and digital finishing systems.

 

it provides innovative colour solutions through measurement systems, software, colour standards and related services.  Its expertise in inspiring, selecting, measuring, formulating, communicating and matching colour helps users improve the quality and effectiveness of their products and reduce costs.

 

Typical users of the product identification business’ products include food and beverage manufacturers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, retailers, commercial printing, packaging and mailing operations, graphic design firms, and paints, plastics and textile manufacturers.  Customers in this industry choose suppliers based on a number of factors, including printer speed and accuracy, equipment uptime and reliable operation without interruption, ease of maintenance, service coverage and the other factors described under “‑ Competition.”

 

Its product identification products are primarily marketed under the ESKO, FOBA, LINX, PANTONE, VIDEOJET and X-RITE brands.  Manufacturing facilities are located in North America, Europe, South America, and Asia. Sales are generally made through our direct sales personnel and independent distributors.

 

For the year ended 31st December, 2014, the sales of the Group amounted to US$19,913.8 million (2013: US$19,118.0 million), net earnings were US$2,598.4 million (2013: US$2,696.0 million).

 

Consolidated sales for the year ended 31st December, 2014 increased 4.0% compared to 2013.  Sales from existing businesses contributed 3.5% growth and sales from acquired businesses contributed 1.5% growth on a year-over-year basis.  The impact of currency translation reduced reported sales by 1.0% as the US dollar was, on average, stronger against other major currencies during 2014 as compared to exchange rate levels during 2013.

 

The subject is fully supported by Danaher Group.  History is over twenty-two years and four months.

On the whole, consider the subject good for normal business engagements.

 


 

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

 

Currency

Unit

Indian Rupees

US Dollar

1

Rs.66.20

UK Pound

1

Rs.98.30

Euro

1

Rs.72.41

HKD

1

Rs.8.51

Note : Above are approximate rates obtained from sources believed to be correct

 

 

INFORMATION DETAILS

 

Analysis Done by :

KAR

 

 

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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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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