MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

Report No. :

350056

Report Date :

18.11.2015

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Name :

C.L.P. INDUSTRIES LTD.

 

 

Formerly Known As :

C.L.P. GAL INDUSTRIES LTD.

 

 

Registered Office :

Mobile Post Lachish Tzafon, Negba 7985600

 

 

Country :

Israel

 

 

Financials (as on) :

31.12.2010

 

 

Date of Incorporation :

21.05.1991

 

 

Legal Form :

Private Limited Company

 

 

Line of Business :

Manufacturers, printers, marketers and exporters of packaging, including aluminum packaging, sophisticated, flexible plastic packaging and packaging materials from multi-layer sheets.

 

 

No. of Employees :

948 (TADBIK Group)

 

 

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)

Israel

B1

B1

 

Risk Category

ECGC Classification

Insignificant

 

A1

Low

 

A2

Moderate

 

B1

High

 

B2

Very High

 

C1

Restricted

 

C2

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.

 

Source : CIA

 

Company Name and Address

                                                                                                  

CLP TADBIK GROUP

 

Correct Name:            C.L.P. INDUSTRIES LTD.

                                 Telephone           972 8 679 03 00

                                 Fax                     972 8 675 40 61; 679 03 80

                                 Email:                  iritu@clp.co.il

                                 Mobile Post Lachish Tzafon

                                 NEGBA 7985600 ISRAEL

 

 

HISTORY & LEGAL FORMATION

 

A private limited company, incorporated as per file No. 51-157149-9 on the 21.05.1991, under the name C.L.P. GAL INDUSTRIES LTD., which changed to the present name on the 14.06.1999.

 

Subject was established in view of continuing all the business activities of a limited partnership C.L.P. COATING LAMINATING AND POLYPROPHYLENE, established in 1973 by Kibbutz Negba and Kibbutz Sde Yoav, also continuing business activities originally founded in 1971.

 

 

SHARE CAPITAL

 

Authorized share capital NIS 40,000,009.00, divided into -

40,000,009 ordinary shares of NIS 1.00 each, of which 35,000,009 shares amounting to NIS 35,000,009.00 were issued.

 

 

SHAREHOLDERS

 

Subject is fully owned by TADBIK-PACK LTD., owned by:

1.  TADBIK LTD., 85.2%, controlled by: Ilan Drory (50.5%), and I. E. L. ISRAEL EQUITY LTD. (40.54%), owned by Mendl Bros. of the U.S.A.,

2.  ORIGO Fund, 4.8% (via 2 funds: MANOF ORIGO 1 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP and MANOF ORIGO 2 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP), controlled and managed by CPA Gabi Trabelsi, Guy Vaadiya and Dave Gal,

3.  Meron Greenberg, 10% (holds directly 1.2% of TADBIK LTD.).

 

In mid 1999 TADBIK-PACK acquired shares in subject from former shareholder, DELEK Group, for NIS 17.1 million. During 2004, Kibbutz Negba acquired Kibbutz Sde Yoav shares (15%) in subject. By June 2007 TADBIK-PACK completed a transaction acquiring all Kibbutz Negba's share (50%) in subject, in consideration of NIS 42.8 million.

In November 2011 ORIGO Leverage Fund invested NIS 10 million in exchange for 4.8% of TADBIK-PACK's shares (see more below).

In January 2014 TADBIK sold 6% of TADBIK-PACK's shares to EFRAT G.M. for NIS 4.6 million.

 

TADBIK LTD. shares were traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) (traded in the preservation list since 2008), and were de-listed from trade at the end of January 2010. Bonds are still traded on TASE.

 

 

DIRECTORS

 

1.    Ilan Drori, General Manager of TADBIK Group,

2.    Meron Greenberg, Chairman of TADBIK-PACK

3.    Ms. Smadar Noy,

4.    Eli Meiron,

5.    Gavriel Rubin.

 

 

GENERAL MANAGER

 

Shaul Shelach.

 

 

BUSINESS

 

Manufacturers, printers, marketers and exporters of packaging, including aluminum packaging, sophisticated, flexible plastic packaging and packaging materials from multi layer sheets.

 

Products are targeted for the food and medical sectors.

 

Also manufacturers of plastic sheets, which serve as raw materials for NBC kits and for isolation and shedding of structures and agriculture crops.

 

Subject is part of TADBIK's Flexible Packaging Segment.

 

54% of 2014 sales of TADBIK Flexible Packaging Segment were for export.

 

Sales are to leading local and foreign companies, such as: OSEM, TNUVA, VERED HAGALIL, MATA, VITA, TARA DAIRIES, STRAUSS-ELITE, AL-BAAD, ZAN LAKOL, SUNFROST, COCA COLA ISRAEL, UNILEVER ISRAEL, J.M. PACKAGING, ZER HITECH, NESTLE, PEPSICO, WALCAN, etc.

 

Among suppliers: PLASTO SAC, GADOT CHEMICALS, BLUE COLOR, etc.

 

Sole local representatives of WOLF, of Germany.

 

Operating from rented plant and offices, on an area of 25,300 sq. meters (on which 12,000 sq. meters built) in Kibbutz Negba (which is also the registered address of subject).

 

Note: "Kibbutz" is a typical local cooperative agricultural settlement/ village.

Also operating from a plant in Russia and from marketing offices in South Africa, Spain and the USA. Also working with agents worldwide.

 

Having 335 employees as of mid 2014 (had 290 employees in early 2012, which was before the acquisition of POLYON BARKAI that took place in August 2012, including some 80 employees - see more below).

 

Having 948 employees serving TADBIK Group as of mid 2015 (same as in the end of 2014, had 968 employees as of end of 2013), of which 825 employees in Israel.

 

Note: number of employees expected to increase by some 40 employees, following the acquisition of EXTRA PLASTIC (see more CHARACTER).

 

 

MEANS

 

Subject's consolidated B/S shows (last obtainable):

 

                                                                                                NIS (thousands)

                                                                                     31.12.2010                31.12.2009

ASSETS

Current assets

       Cash and cash equivalents                                                14,911                          996

       Customers                                                                       74,932                      79,456

       Other debtors                                                                     3,978                       3,331

       Stock                                                                               45,165                      36,698

                                                                                             138,986                    120,481

 

Non-current assets                                                                   63,543                      69,188

                                                                                             202,529                    189,669

                                                                                          =======                 =======

LIABILITIES

Current liabilities                                                                    115,301                      93,574

Non-current liabilities                                                                30,027                      43,121

Equity                                                                                     57,201                      52,974

                                                                                             202,529                    189,669

                                                                                          =======                 =======

 

 

Total assets attributed to the Flexible Packaging Segment in the 2014 annual financial statements of TADBIK LTD. (practically subject and its subsidiaries) were: NIS 278,066,000 (was NIS 271,028,000 on the 31.12.2013).

Liabilities: NIS 96,707,000 (NIS 101,477,000 as of 31.12.2013).

 

Subject is an “Approved Enterprise” and as such enjoys tax benefits and State incentives. In 2001 and in 2004 the Israeli investment Center (IIC) approved US$ 8.2 million and US$ 2.4 million investment plans, respectively, for the expansion of subject’s plant in Negba.

 

Subject's stock was valued at NIS 36,000,000 in February 2012.

 

Financial data is included in the consolidated statement of parent company, TADBIK LTD., which shows:

                                                                                                NIS (thousands)

                                                                                       31.12.2014              30.06.2015

ASSETS

Current assets

       Cash and cash equivalents                                                12,576                      10,441

       Customers                                                                      164,252                    156,090

       Other debtors                                                                   11,679                      13,833

       Stock                                                                             126,114                    135,036

                                                                                             314,621                    315,400

Non-current assets

       Fixed assets                                                                   219,912                    222,347

       Goodwill and intangible assets                                          17,264                      16,452

       Other assets                                                                     12,164                      14,996

                                                                                             249,340                    253,795

                                                                                             563,961                    569,195

                                                                                          =======                 =======

LIABILITIES

Current liabilities                                                                    310,228                    313,384

Non-current liabilities 144,324                                                 140,085

Equity                                                                                   109,409                    115,726

                                                                                             563,961                    569,195

                                                                                          =======                 =======

 

In November 2011 a transaction was completed between TADBIK LTD. and ORIGO Leverage Fund, in which ORIGO will provide subject NIS 10 million in exchange for 4.76% of TADBIK-PACK 's shares, plus NIS 40 million loan and an option to increase stake by further 8.7%), reflecting a company value of NIS 210 million for TADBIK PACK.

 

There are 16 charges for unlimited sums, as well as 3 charges for the sums of NIS 2,000,000, US$ 2,500,000 and 1,251,180 registered on the company’s assets (on equipment & machinery), in favor of the State of Israel, Mercantile Discount Bank Ltd., Bank Hapoalim Ltd., The First International Bank of Israel Ltd., Mizrahi Tefahot Bank Ltd. and Bank Leumi Le’Israel Ltd. (last 2 charges placed in August-November 2014).

 

 

REVENUES

 

From subject’s consolidated Statements of Income (last obtainable):

2008 sales were NIS 232,888,000, making a gross profit of NIS 40,763,000, an operating income of NIS 4,988,000, and net income of NIS 1,081,000.

2009 sales were NIS 227,981,000, making a gross profit of NIS 38,359,000, an operating income of NIS 5,938,000, and net income of NIS 1,729,000.

 

From subject's CFO:

Subject's 2013 sales were NIS 401,010,000, 60% of which were for export.

 

Sales by the Flexible Packaging Segment in the financial statements of TADBIK LTD. (most attributed to subject and its subsidiaries, some of subject's sales are included in other segments):

2011 sales were NIS 314,375,000, making an operating profit of NIS 16,586,000.

2012 sales were NIS 353,265,000, making an operating profit of NIS 17,316,000.

2013 sales were NIS 372,360,000, making an operating profit of NIS 9,224,000.

2014 sales were NIS 374,636,000, making an operating profit of NIS 17,656,000.

 

 

                                                                                     TADBIK LTD.

                                                                    Consolidated Statements of Income

                                                                                      NIS (thousands)

                                                                        Year ended December 31.12

                                                                         2012                   2013                 2014

Sales                                                                 676,547            694,708            711,863

 

Gross profit                                                        124,946            113,118            131,106

 

Operating income                                                 38,657              12,135              21,176

 

Profit (loss) before tax on income                         20,468              (3,148)                4,949

 

Net income                                                           20,824              (6,662)                4,109

                                                                         ======            ======            ======

 

 

TADBIK LTD. consolidated sales for the first 6 months of 2015 were

NIS 371,298,000 (4% increase compared top parallel period in 2014), making a gross profit of NIS 75,696,000, an operating profit of NIS 17,033,000 and net profit of NIS 6,621,000.

 

 

OTHER COMPANIES

 

POLYNUM C.L.P INSULATION LTD., 100%, insulation products for construction.

C.L.P. PACKAGING SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTD., 100%, marketers of subject’s products in South Africa,

C.L.P. PACKAGING SOLUTIONS INC., 100%, marketing Group’s products in the U.S.A,

C.L.P. (RUSSIA) LTD., 100%, holds:

C.L.P. PLASTUPAK LLC, 100%, of Russia, manufacturers and marketers of packaging products,

IZASLAV LLC, 76.8%, Russia, plastic sacks manufacturing.

EXTRA PLASTIC LTD., 100%, manufacturers of plastic packaging products.

 

TADBIK-PACK LTD., manufacturers, marketers and exporters of packaging solutions, shrink sleeves and in-mold/blow-mold labels, using rotary offset printing. Also holds:

TADBIK-PACK (SA) (Pty) LTD., South Africa, 100%.

TADBIK-PACK ESPANA S.L, 100%.

 

TADBIK LTD., directly and through its subsidiaries, operating in the packaging area, self-adhesive labels and automated adhesive machines for packaging industry. Also holds:

TADBIK ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY LTD. (T.A.T.), 100%, investing in start-up companies in the anti-fraud labeling field.

TADBIK NJ INC. (formerly LOGOTECH INC.), 100%, U.S.A., manufacturers of pressure sensitive labels for the US market,

TADBIK REAL ESTATE LTD., 100%, Group’s real estate company.

TADBIK ADHESIVE & MARKING SYSTEMS LTD., 100%, design and manufacture pressure sensitive and shrink sleeves labeling equipment.

TADBIK RUSSIA LTD., 60%, holds 100% of DECORPACK LTD. in Russia, inactive.

 

I. E. L. ISRAEL EQUITY LTD. (IEL), an investment group, also has holding in other Israeli companies, including 100% in PHOENICIA GLASS WORKS LTD., manufacturers, designers, exporters and marketers of glass bottles and other glass containers. Mendl family operates mainly through PARKWOOD, a family finance services company.

 

 

BANKERS

 

Bank Leumi Le’Israel Ltd., Haifa Main Branch (No. 876), Haifa.

Mercantile Discount Bank Ltd., Main Branch (No. 654), Tel Aviv.

Mizrahi Tefahot Bank Ltd., Main Business Center Branch (No. 461), Tel Aviv.

 

 

CHARACTER AND REPUTATION

 

Nothing unfavorable learned.

 

In December 2013 subject's workers' union declared a work dispute (one day in April 2014 took a 24-hour strike), claiming that since they started negotiations with the management on global working agreement, the union's seniors suffer from economic harassments. Subject's management denied the accusations, adding they operates to minimize the harm in the current operations. Since then, we did not find further news on the matter, so we assume it has been resolved.

 

Subject is veteran and among the leading local companies in their field.

TADBIK Group is a leading Group in the packaging field in Israel.

Subject is ISO 9002 certified.

Several years ago, we received positive suppliers' opinions on subject.

 

In 2001 subject established a subsidiary called C.L.P. PLASTUPAK, for manufacturing and marketing subject’s products in Russia. TADBIK RUSSIA LTD. was established in 2006. The company fully owns DEKORPACK, for manufacturing packaging, stickers and allied products and marketing in Russia.

Also, as part of the Group’s global expansion policy, it established (50%, with a local partner) a new plant in South Africa with € 5 million investment, which started operations in October 2008.

 

I.E.L is an investment firm, owned by Mendl Bros, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mendl, of the USA. It has other investments in Israeli companies. Mendl family operates mainly through PARKWOOD, a family finance services company. The private capital of Morton Mendl is estimated at US$ 4-5 billion.

 

In October 2011 TADBIK LTD. and TADBIK-PACK signed an agreement with ORIGO "Manof" (Leverage) Fund for the fund investing NIS 50 million in TADBIK PACK, as described above, a transaction finalized in November 2011.

ORIGO Manof Fund, managing NIS 1.3 billion, is part of the Israeli Government scheme of joint State and institutional investors to assist local industrial companies that carried debts from issuing bonds or other debts arrangements, originally designed to face the consequences of the economic crisis by providing non-banking credit, though later, as the market conditions improved, diversified also to assist also debt not in forms of bonds.

 

In 2012 subject established POLYNUM C.L.P INSULATION.

 

In August 2013 TADBIK's subsidiary completed the acquisition of activities of South African company of decoration labeling for NIS 5 million.

 

In August 2012 subject completed the acquisition of the activities of POLYON BARKAI INDUSTRIES (1993) LTD. from Kibbutz Barkai and KATZIR Fund, in consideration of NIS 10 million plus NIS 4 million for the inventory. POLYON was incorporated in 1993, continuing partnership activities which were established by Kibbutz Barkai in 1971. The company operated as manufacturers and marketers of engineered polyethylene and polypropylene films and lids for the food and packaging industries, as well as insulation products for the construction branch.

POLYON encountered financial difficulties and entered freezing procedures in May 2012. The Court accepted subject's bid for POLYON's activities in June 2012. Subject committed to employ some 80 of POLYON's employees.

 

POLYON's current assets as of 31.12.2011 were NIS 40 million. Its 2011 sales were NIS 107 million, 50% of which for export.

 

On the 25.05.2015 TADBIK reported that subject and parent company TADBIK-PACK won the tender to acquire EXTRA PLASTIC LTD. (manufacturers, marketers and exporters of plastic packaging products) from the Receiver, following EXTRA PLASTIC's financial collapse (an attempt to acquire EXTRA PLASTIC in 2012 by subject failed). The acquisition is for the total sum of NIS 24.2 million (including activities, stock and property). Deal was completed in August 2015.

 

EXTRA PLASTIC LTD. is a veteran company (established 1941, incorporated 1960), whose shares were traded on the TASE (suspended since May 2015, following not publishing annual 2014 statements).

 

In November 2015 TADBIK reported that its subsidiary signed a MOU with a company in Belarus to establish a company (in which Group will hold 51%), which will manufacture and marketer plastic sleeves in Belarus and Russian Federation.

 

According to a market research firm published in mid 2014 (ordered by the Ministry of Economy), total revenues of the local Plastic & Rubber Industry reached US$ 5 billion (return to the levels in 2007, prior to the global economic crisis, when revenues fell and started to climb back since 2010), half of which was for export (which is comprise US$ 2.3 billion from goods, the rest from raw products). Sales breakdown: 30% of the branch's sales are for the Household, 23% - Agriculture, 16% - Packaging, 9% - Building sector, 9% Industry, 5% Furniture, 4% - Compounds (rest is to other fields).

There were 23,700 workers employed in the Plastic & Rubber branch in 2013.

 

According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), sales for export from the manufacturing of Plastic and Rubber products in 2014 climbed by 6% from 2013 up to US$ 2,086 million, continuing the upward trend from 2013 (rose 7.6% from 2012, after it fell by some 3% in 2012 from 2011). The export witnessed a reverse trend in the first 5 months of 2015 with 7.8% decrease compared to the parallel period in 2014.

 

According to the CBS, import of Plastic and Rubber raw material for the local industry in 2014 summed up to US$ 2,518 million, up 4.5% from 2013 (in $ terms, rose by 2.7% in 2013 from 2012). Yet, a 17% decrease in import was marked in the first 5 months of 2015 compared to the parallel period in 2014.

Plastic & rubber raw materials consumption by the local industry is of around 1 million tons, 70% of which derives from import, the rest from local production (which is comprised mainly of simple raw materials).

 

Investment in imported machinery and equipment by the Plastic & Rubber industries rose in 2014 by 5.5% from 2013, totaling NIS 410.4 million. This is after a decrease in 2013 by 18% from 2012.

 

 

SUMMARY

 

Good for trade engagements.

 

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

 

Currency

Unit

Indian Rupees

US Dollar

1

Rs.65.98

UK Pound

1

Rs.100.11

Euro

1

Rs.70.35

 

INFORMATION DETAILS

 

Analysis Done by :

KAS

 

 

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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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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