MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

Report No. :

321371

Report Date :

22.05.2015

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Name :

OMEGA-2 SHPS

 

 

Registered Office :

Petri Sarajishvili Street 17, Vake-Saburtalo District, Tbilisi 0159

 

 

Country :

Georgia

 

 

Date of Incorporation :

08.01.1997

 

 

Legal Form :

Limited Liability Company

 

 

Line of Business :

Trading as importers, re-exporters and distributors of cigarettes.

 

 

No. of Employees :

700 (Subject)

 

 

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

 

Maximum Credit Limit :

LARI 5,000,000

 

 

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 – December 31, 2014

 

Country Name

Previous Rating

(30.09.2014)

Current Rating

(31.12.2014)

Georgia

C1

C1

 

Risk Category

ECGC Classification

Insignificant

 

A1

Low

 

A2

Moderate

 

B1

High

 

B2

Very High

 

C1

Restricted

 

C2

Off-credit

 

D

 


 

GEORGIA - ECONOMIC OVERVIEW

 

Georgia's main economic activities include cultivation of agricultural products such as grapes, citrus fruits, and hazelnuts; mining of manganese, copper, and gold; and producing alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages, metals, machinery, and chemicals in small-scale industries. The country imports nearly all of its needed supplies of natural gas and oil products. It has sizeable hydropower capacity that now provides most of its energy needs. Georgia has overcome the chronic energy shortages and gas supply interruptions of the past by renovating hydropower plants and by increasingly relying on natural gas imports from Azerbaijan instead of from Russia. Construction of the Baku-T'bilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, the South Caucasus gas pipeline, and the Kars-Akhalkalaki Railroad are part of a strategy to capitalize on Georgia's strategic location between Europe and Asia and develop its role as a transit point for gas, oil, and other goods. The expansion of the South Caucasus pipeline, as part of the Shah Deniz II Southern Gas Corridor project, will result in a $2 billion foreign investment in Georgia, the largest ever in the country. Gas from Shah Deniz II is expected to begin flowing in 2019. Georgia's economy sustained GDP growth of more than 10% in 2006-07, based on strong inflows of foreign investment and robust government spending. However, GDP growth slowed following the August 2008 conflict with Russia, and sunk to negative 4% in 2009 as foreign direct investment and workers' remittances declined in the wake of the global financial crisis. The economy rebounded in 2010-13, but FDI inflows, the engine of Georgian economic growth prior to the 2008 conflict, have not recovered fully. Unemployment has also remained high. Georgia has historically suffered from a chronic failure to collect tax revenues; however, since 2004 the government has simplified the tax code, improved tax administration, increased tax enforcement, and cracked down on petty corruption, leading to higher revenues. The country is pinning its hopes for renewed growth on a determined effort to continue to liberalize the economy by reducing regulation, taxes, and corruption in order to attract foreign investment, with a focus on hydropower, agriculture, tourism, and textiles production. The government has received high marks from the World Bank for its anti-corruption efforts. Since 2012, the Georgian Dream-led government has continued the previous administration's low-regulation, low-tax, free market policies, while modestly increasing social spending, strengthening anti-trust policy, and amending the labor code to comply with International Labor Standards. The government published its 2020 Economic Development Strategy in early 2014 and former Prime Minister Bidzina IVANISHVILI launched the Georgian Co-Investment Fund, a $6 billion private equity fund that will invest in tourism, agriculture, logistics, energy, infrastructure, and manufacturing. In mid-2014, Georgia signed an association agreement with the European Union, paving the way to free trade and visa-free travel.

 

 

Source : CIA

 

 

Company name

 

CO. NAME :      OMEGA-2 SHPS (CORRECT)

                        OMEGA 2 LTD (REQUESTED)

 

 

ADDRESS

 

Street   : Petri Sarajishvili Street 17

 

Area     : Vake-Saburtalo District

 

Town     : Tbilisi 0159

Country  : Georgia

 

Telephone: (995 32) 253 1277 / 253 1148 (Chief Accountant) / 253 0543 (Giorgi Kurdadze) / 253 0573(Gia Devdariani) / 253 0854 / 253 1277 (Nikoloz Asanidze) / 253     0969 / Mobile (995 592) 317 979 (Paata Chkheidze)

 

Fax      :                        (995 32) 253 0833     

E-Mail   :                       info@omega.ge / l.kapanadze@omega2.ge / paata@omega.ge

Website  :                     www.omega2.ge

 

Extended Name  :         Omega-2 Shazguduli Pasukhismbgeblobis Sazagadoeba

 

English Translation :      Omega-2 Ltd

 

Also known as :             Omega 2 Ltd 

 

 

SENIOR COMPANY PERSONNEL

 

   Name                                     Position

 

1. Giorgi Kurdadze                     Managing Director

 

2. Nikoloz Asanidze                   General Manager

 

3. Gia Devdariani                       Head of Sales & Distribution Department

 

4. Lia Kapanadze                       Chief Accountant

 

5. Levan Agdgomelashvili          Head of Operations Department

 

6. Liana Gegeshidze                  Head of Customs Operations

 

7. Khatuna Pureliani                  Head of Legal Department

 

8. Rusudan Gvaramadze            Marketing Manager

 

9. Kate Chkheidze                      Head of External Affairs Department

 

10.Anna Muratishvili                   Manager

 

Total Employees :                     700 (subject)

                                                 4,000 (group)

 

 

PAYMENTS

 

No complaints have been heard regarding payments from local suppliers

or banks.

 

Subject is a member of Omega Group which brings crucial overseas investments into Georgia and through global partnerships with international businesses like Phillip Morris, BMW, MINI, IVECO, Chevrolet and Heidelberg enhances the reputation of the country.

 

We consider it is acceptable to deal with subject for LARGE amounts,

amounts, although it is normal accepted practice for international suppliers to deal on secured terms with Georgian importers.

 

Opinion on maximum credit : LARI 5,000,000

 

Trade risk assessment : Normal

 

 

PRINCIPAL BANKERS

 

NAME     : BANK OF GEORGIA

 

Branch   : Pushkin Street 3

Town     : Tbilisi 0105

 

Telephone: (995 32) 244 4256        

Fax      : (995 32) 244 4289

 

The subject has also account with the following banks :

 

1. Kartu Bank JSC

   Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue 39A

   Tbilisi 0179

   Telephone: (995 32) 232 2300

   Fax      : (995 32) 232 2300

 

2. Kor Standard Bank JSC

   Chavchavadze Street 43

   Tbilisi 0162

   Telephone: (995 32) 250 7700

   Fax      : (995 32) 250 7707

 

3. VTB Bank Georgia JSC

   G.Tchanturia Street 14 

   Tbilisi 0102

   Telephone: (995 32) 250 5505

   Fax      : (995 32) 299 9139

 

 

FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

Private companies in Georgia are not required to publish or disclose balance sheets. However, the subject interviewed offered

the following information :

 

Sales Turnover                 : LARI 221,500,000 - 2013 - exact

                                       : LARI 250,500,000 - 2014 - exact

 

Net Profit                      : not given but stated to be profitable

 

Financial year ends 31 December.

 

The following financial information applies to OJT ShPS (latest available):

 

Sales Turnover               : LARI 35,000,000 - 2006 - exact

                                     : LARI 50,000,000 - 2007 - exact

 

Net Profit                       : not given but stated to be profitable

 

Financial year ends 31 December.

 

 

LEGAL STATUS AND HISTORY

 

Date Started :   8 January 1997

 

History :            The subject company was established in Georgia on 8 January 1997.

 

C.R. No. :         01/04-593

 

ID Code :          245422608

 

Authorised Capital : LARI 2,000

 

Paid-Up Capital : LARI 2,000

 

Shazguduli Pasukhismbgeblobis Sazagadoeba (limited liability company) with the following director and sole shareholder :

Director

 

Giorgi Kurdadze           

(Georgian national / Personal No. 61001002353)

 

Shareholder                                          Percentage                                   

 

Velsan Trading Corporation                           100%

Est.: 7 October 2009

C.R. No.: 677212

Panama

 

Affiliated companies of the subject company :

 

Associates

 

1. OJT ShPS (OGT Ltd)

   Petri Sarajishvili Street 17

   Tbilisi 0159

   Georgia

   Telephone: (995 32) 253 1277 / 253 1148

   Fax      : (995 32) 253 0833

   Managing Director: Nikoloz Asanidze     

   Est.: 18 October 1999

   ID Code : 245434169

   Capital: LARI 2,000

   Sole shareholder:

                - Rominvest Trading Corp

                  Road Town

                  Tortola

                  British Virgin Islands

                  C.R. No. : 563239

   (producers of cigarettes)

 

2. Omega Motors ShPS

   10th km of David Agmashenebeli Avenue

   Tbilisi

   Telephone: (995 32) 531 428

   Fax      : (995 32) 531 430

   E-mail: omega.motors@access.sanet.ge

   An official and exclusive importer of giant automotive concern

   BMW, Mini in Georgia.

 

3. Omega Tegi ShPS

   P. Sarajishvili Street 17

   Tbilisi 0159

   Telephone: (995 32) 530 661

   Fax      : (995 32) 530 661

   Operators of a printing house. Subject publishes booklets,

   brochures and books.

 

4. Omega Club

   27, Melikishvili Street

   Tbilisi

   Telephone: (995 32) 251 809

   Fax      : (995 32) 251 959

   Omega Club was founded on June 30, 2002. This is a new type of

   union which is based on democracy for the revival of the

   literature life in Georgia. Literators of all generations are

   united in Omega Club.

 

5. Omega

   Public Magazine

 

6. New Epoch

   Public newspaper

 

7. Our Poetry

   Literatural Public newspaper

 

8. Media News

   News Agency

 

Subject’s formerly associate was:

 

Iberia TV

TV Company

(closed down in 2007)

 

 

ACTIVITIES

 

The Company is involved in the following activities :

 

Trading as importers, re-exporters and distributors of cigarettes.

 

NACE Code: 4635

 

Imports from Italy, Germany, UK, Ukraine, USA and Brazil.

 

Re-Exports to Europe and CIS Countries.

 

Subject is exclusive distributor for Philip Morris International.

 

 

FACILITIES

 

The Company has the following facilities :

 

Rented premises comprising administrative offices and storage facilities located at the heading address as well as 30 branch offices located throughout Georgia.

 

 

REGISTERED OFFICE

 

Petri Sarajishvili Street 13-15-17

Vashlijvari 

Vake-Saburtalo District

Tbilisi 0159

 

 

SPECIAL NOTE

 

You enquired on: OMEGA 2 LTD. Please note that the correct name is as per heading.

 

The address provided by you: Adres P Sarajishvili Street 17 0159 is misspelt. Please note that correct spelling is as per heading.

 

Interviewed: Lia Kapanadze (Chief Accountant).

 


 

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

 

Currency

Unit

Indian Rupees

US Dollar

1

Rs.63.70

UK Pound

1

Rs.98.92

Euro

1

Rs.70.67

 

INFORMATION DETAILS

 

Analysis Done by :

RAS

 

 

Report Prepared by :

VNT

 

               

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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