MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

Report No. :

307499

Report Date :

24.02.2015

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Name :

UNION BUSINESS MACHINES CO. LTD.

 

 

Registered Office :

Unit 2, 4 & 6, 2/F., Block A, Hong Kong Industrial Centre, 489-491 Castle Peak Road, Lai Chi Kok, Kowloon

 

 

Country :

Hong Kong

 

 

Year of Establishment :

1976

 

 

Com. Reg. No.:

09582623

 

 

Legal Form :

Private Limited Company.

 

 

LINE OF BUSINESS :

MANUFACTURER, IMPORTER, EXPORTER AND WHOLESALER OF TIME-RECORDER, TIME STAMP, CAR-PARK TIME RECORDER, WATCHMAN CLOCK, STRAPPING MACHINE, SHREDDERING MACHINE, CARD RACK, TIME-CARD, PARTS FOR TIME RECORDER AND CASH REGISTER.

 

 

No. of Employees :

500 (Including Workers in China)

 

 

RATING & COMMENTS

 

MIRA’s Rating :

Ba

 

RATING

STATUS4

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

41-55

Ba

Overall operation is considered normal. Capable to meet normal commitments.

Satisfactory

 

Status :

Good

 

 

Payment Behaviour :

Regular

 

 

Litigation :

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NOTES:

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ECGC Country Risk Classification List – December 31, 2014

 

Country Name

Previous Rating

(30.09.2014)

Current Rating

(31.12.2014)

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% of total system deposits in Hong Kong by the end of 2013. 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 34.9 million in 2012, 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 2012 mainland Chinese companies constituted about 46.6% of the firms listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and accounted for about 57.4% 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% in 2013. 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 2013, Hong Kong and China signed new agreements under the Closer Economic Partnership Agreement, adopted in 2003 to forge closer ties between Hong Kong and the mainland. The new measures, effective from January 2014, cover services and trade facilitation, and will improve access to the mainland's service sector for Hong Kong-based companies.

 

Source : CIA

 

 

Company Name

 

UNION BUSINESS MACHINES CO. LTD.

 

 

ADDRESS

 

Address:                                   Unit 2, 4 & 6, 2/F., Block A, Hong Kong Industrial Centre, 489-491 Castle Peak Road, Lai  Chi Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

 

PHONE:                                    852-2745 1342, 2785 5959

FAX:                                         852-2310 2699, 2785 0396

 

E-MAIL:                                    sales@union-business.com

 

 

MANAGEMENT

 

Managing Director:                    Mr. Ng Wai Kin

 

 

SUMMARY

 

Establishment:                                      1976.

 

Incorporated on:                        22nd March, 1985.

 

Organization:                             Private Limited Company.

 

Capital: Nominal:                       HK$1,500,000.00

                                                Issued: HK$1,500,000.00

 

Business Category:                   Manufacturer, Importer, Exporter and Wholesaler.

 

Annual Turnover:                       HK$130~150 million.

 

Employees:                              500.  (Including workers in China)

 

Main Dealing Banker:                 DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd., Hong Kong.

 

Banking Relation:                      Satisfactory.

 

 


ADDRESS

 

Registered Head Office & Workshop:-

Unit 3, 2/F., Block A, Hong Kong Industrial Centre,
489-491 Castle Peak Road, Lai Chi Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

 

China Offices:-

Ganzhou, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Jinan, Shanghai, Shenyang, Shenzhen, etc.

 

 

China Factory:-

 

Dongguan Factory
Dongguan Union Tianmei Business Machines Co. Ltd.
Industrial Zone IV, South Gate, Humen, Dongguan, Guangdong Province, China.
Tel:       86-769-8556 1311
Fax:      86-769-8556 2784
E-mail:  dgtimmy@126.com

 

Trading as:-

Time Recorder City, Hong Kong.

Nideka Time Recorder (HK) Manufacturing, Hong Kong.

Union System Engineering, Hong Kong.

 

Associated/Affiliated Companies:-

Dongguan Yinuo Information Technology Co. Ltd., China.

Dongguan Yishang Electronic Technology Co. Ltd., China.

Jobkeep Co. Ltd., Hong Kong.

Nideka (H.K.) Ltd., Hong Kong.

Nideka Engineering Co. Ltd., Hong Kong.

Nideka Technology Ltd., Hong Kong.

 

 

BUSINESS REGISTRATION NUMBER 

 

09582623

 

 

COMPANY FILE NUMBER

 

0148735

 

 

MANAGEMENT

 

Managing Director:        Mr. Ng Wai Kin

Contact Person:            Mr. Steven Chau

 

 

CAPITAL

 

Nominal Share Capital: HK$1,500,000.00 (Divided into 1,500,000 shares of HK$1.00 each)

 

Issued Share Capital: HK$1,500,000.00

 

 

SHAREHOLDERS

(As per registry dated 22-03-2014)

 

Name

 

No. of shares

NG Wai Kin

 

1,499,899

NG Tak Chuen

 

101

 

 

––––––––

 

Total:

1,500,000

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DIRECTORS  

(As per registry dated 22-03-2014)

 

Name

(Nationality)

 

Address

NG Wai Kin

Unit 2, 2/F., Block A, Hong Kong Industrial Centre,
489-491 Castle Peak Road, Lai Chi Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

 

NG Tak Chuen

Flat B, 15/F., Tower B, Clague Garden Estate, Tsuen Wan, New Territories, Hong Kong.

 

 

SECRETARY 

 

NG Tak Chuen (As per registry dated 22-03-2014)

 

 

HISTORY

 

The subject was established in 1976 and incorporated on 22nd March, 1985 as a private limited liability company under the Hong Kong Companies Ordinance.

 

Formerly the subject was located at Unit 12 & 13, 7/F., Block B, Hong Kong Industrial Centre, 489-491 Castle Peak Road, Lai Chi Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong, moved to Unit 2, 4 & 6, 2/F., Block A of the same building in April 1992, and further moved to Unit 3 of the same building in October 2012.

 

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

 

 

OPERATIONS

 

Activities:                      Manufacturer, Importer, Exporter and Wholesaler.

 

Lines:                           Time-recorder, time stamp, car-park time recorder, watchman clock, strapping machine, shreddering machine, card rack, time-card, parts for time recorder and cash register.

 

Brand Names:               “ACROPRINT”, “LUCKS”, “MIEKO”, “NIDEKA”, “TIME‑POWER”,TIMMY”, “WIDMER”, etc.

 

Sole Agent of:-

Nideka” micro computer time recorder.

Widmer” electronic time stamp, watchman clock, automatic strapping machine.

 

Employees:                  500.  (Including workers in China)

 

Raw Materials:               Imported from Japan, US and Europe.

 

Markets:                        Hong Kong, China, Southeast Asia, Europe, North America, etc.

 

Annual Turnover:           HK$130~150 million.

 

Terms/Sales:                 COD or as per contracted.

 

Terms/Buying:               As per contracted.

 

 

FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

Nominal Share Capital: HK$1,500,000.00 (Divided into 1,500,000 shares of HK$1.00 each)

 

Issued Share Capital:     HK$1,500,000.00

 

Alternation of Capital:-

Initially

paid up

HK$      10,102.00

01-04-1999

paid up

HK$      1,489,898.00

 

 

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Total:

paid up

HK$      1,500,000.00

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Increase of Nominal Capital:-

From

HK$500,000.00

to

HK$1,500,000.00

on

01-04-1999

 

Mortgage or Charge (since 2001):           (See attachment)

 

Profit or Loss:               Business is profitable.

 

Condition:                     Keeping in an active and satisfactory manner.

 

Facilities:                      Making active use of general banking facilities.

 

Payment:                      So far so good.

 

Commercial Morality:     Satisfactory.

 

Bankers:-

DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd., Hong Kong.

Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd., Hong Kong.

Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (Asia) Ltd., Hong Kong.

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

Dah Sing Bank Ltd., Hong Kong.

 

Standing:                      Good.

 

 

GENERAL

 

Union Business Machines Co. Ltd. is almost wholly-owned by Mr. Ng Wai Kin who is the Managing Director.  He is a Hong Kong merchant.

 

The subject is an experienced manufacturer of NIDEKA fingerprint/RFID/punch card time and attendance recorders, door access controllers, security guard patrol system, paper shredders, time stamp, etc.

 

According to the subject, it has achieved over 90% of the local market share in the 80’s and climbed continuously to attain the leading position in the industry.  Meanwhile, the subject’s products have been exported to worldwide countries and its sales network covers most of the regions of the world.  The subject has over 10 branch offices spreading from Shenzhen Special Economic Zone to Shanghai.

 

The subject is the manufacturer, exporter and trader of specialized types of office equipment and supplies.  With heritable, advanced technology from Japan and has made large investments in R&D since 1986, the subject has been a time recorder manufacturer.  Then, in order to meet the different needs of the market, it has expanded and diversified to produce a wide range of products including fingerprint/proximity card time and attendance recorders, door access controller, security guard patrol system, paper shredders, time stamps, and accessories for time recorders.  Most of the products bear the following brand names: Acroprint”, “Lucks”, “Mieko”, “Nideka”, “Time-Power”, “Timmy”, “Widmer”, “etc.

 

The trade mark Nideka has registered with the Trade Marks Registry, Intellectual Property Department, the Government of the Hong Kong SAR.  The filing date was 7th April, 1994 while the expiry date is 7th April, 2015.

 

The main office in Hong Kong provides full customer services, repairing and maintenance services, sales and marketing, warehousing and logistic activities and other supporting services.  Its manufacturing plants are located in both Hong Kong and China.  Altogether there are more than 500 workers in total.

 

Currently, the subject has had factories in China which are known as Dongguan Union Tianmei Business Machines Co. Ltd., Dongguan Yinuo Information Technology Co. Ltd. and Dongguan Yishang Electronic Technology Co. Ltd.  All the factories are is in Dongguan City, China.

 

The subject’s significant products are time recorders.  Nideka” was originally invented by the Japanese.  The very first model was the “Nideka” model 500, which was invented in 1936.

 

The subject took over the Japanese technology and production know-how in the 1980’s.  Since then, the subject has developed its own brand name “LUCKS” and “TIME-POWER”.  In 2009, the subject got ISO 9001:2008 certification.

 

Besides the subject, Ng Wai Kin has set up another company known as Nideka (H.K.) Ltd., a Hong Kong-registered company.  It was set up on 21st December, 1993 and located at the same address.  The following companies are the main OEM customers: Olympia, Alpha System, Datakeep, Cinematico, BDE, etc.

 

The history of the subject in Hong Kong is over 38 years.

 

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

 

 

REMARKS

 

Court case record:-

 

Date

 

Plaintiff

Defendant

Cause

Amount

Mar. 1995

Chung Yiu Keung

Union Business Machines Co. Ltd.

Amount due

HK$216,927

 

Property information of the company:-

1.Property Location:      Workshop A2, A4 & A6 on 2/F. of Block A,
Hong Kong Industrial Centre, 489-491 Castle Peak Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Owner:  Union Business Machines Co. Ltd.

Date of Purchase:  04-12-1991

Purchased Price:  HK$13,500,000

 

Incumbrances:-

 

Date of Mortgage

Amount Consideration

Mortgagee

Nature

04-12-1991

-

The Daiwa Bank Ltd., Hong Kong Branch.

Mortgage to secure general banking facilities

 

2.Property Location:      Workshop A3 on 2/F. of Block A, Hong Kong Industrial Centre, 489-491 Castle Peak Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Owner:  Union Business Machines Co. Ltd.

Date of Purchase:  24-03-1992

Purchased Price:  HK$2,583,900

 

Incumbrances:-

 

Date of Mortgage

Amount Consideration

Mortgagee

Nature

14-08-1992

-

Dah Sing Bank Ltd., Hong Kong.

Mortgage to secure general banking facilities

 

3.Property Location:      Workshop 3 on G/F., Trust Centre, 912-914 Cheung Sha Wan Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Owner:  Union Business Machines Co. Ltd.

Date of Purchase:  n.a.

Purchased Price:  n.a.

 

Incumbrances:-

 

Date of Mortgage

Amount Consideration

Mortgagee

Nature

31-01-1994

-

Dah Sing Bank Ltd., Hong Kong.

Mortgage to secure general banking facilities

 

4.Property Location:      Flat A on G/F. including Garden of Block 48 and Car Park No. 125 on Level 1, Southern Carpark, Savanna Garden, 4283 Tai Po Road, Tai Po Kau, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong.

Owner:  Union Business Machines Co. Ltd.

Date of Purchase:  n.a.

Purchased Price:  n.a.

 

Incumbrances:-

 

Date of Mortgage

Amount Consideration

Mortgagee

Nature

23-01-1989

-

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

Mortgage to secure general banking facilities

 

5.Property Location:      House 1 including Garage, Flat Roof, Garden & Roof,
Savanna Garden, 4283 Tai Po Road, Tai Po Kau, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong.

Owner:  Union Business Machines Co. Ltd.

Date of Purchase:  n.a.

Purchased Price:  n.a.

 

Incumbrances:-

 

Date of Mortgage

Amount Consideration

Mortgagee

Nature

14-12-2007

-

DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd., Hong Kong.

Mortgage to secure general banking facilities

 

 

MORTGAGE OR CHARGE

(Since 2001)

 

Date

 

Particulars

Amount

14-12-2007

Instrument:        Mortgage

Property:

52/7,700th parts or shares of and in Tai Po Town Lot No. 72 (House 1 including Garage, Flat Roof, Garden & Roof of Savanna Garden, 4283 Tai Po Road, Tai Po Kau, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong.)

Mortgagee:        DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd., Hong Kong.

To secure all monies in respect of general banking facilities

10-09-2009

Instrument:        Charge Over Deposits – CD 1 (09a)

Property:

1)         By fixed Charge:  all the Company’s rights in respect of (i) the sum deposited by the Company; and (ii) all other sums in any currency from time to time standing to the credit of the Company or the credit of any other person for the Company’s benefit whether alone or jointly with others, on any deposit account with the Bank or any other SCB Group Company including additions to or renewals or replacements of such sum; and all interest from time to time accruing or payable on the sums specified in (i) and (ii) above;

2)         By assignment:  all Deposits held with any SCB Group Company

Mortgagee:        Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd., Hong Kong.

To secure the payment or discharge of all moneys, obligations and liabilities, whether actual or contingent at the date of the Charge or at any time after the date thereof, due, owing or incurred by the Company to Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd.

 


 

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

 

Currency

Unit

Indian Rupees

US Dollar

1

Rs.62.18

UK Pound

1

Rs.95.71

Euro

1

Rs.70.76

 

INFORMATION DETAILS

 

Analysis Done by :

DIV

 

 

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

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

 

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