MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

Report No. :

345976

Report Date :

24.10.2015

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Name :

PERFECT MARBLE CO. LTD.

 

 

Registered Office :

Unit 3606, 36/F., Wu Chung House, 213 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai

 

 

Country :

Hong Kong

 

 

Date of Incorporation :

09.10.1981

 

 

Com. Reg. No.:

07541411

 

 

Legal Form :

Private Limited Company

 

 

Line of Business :

Importers and Suppliers; Marble Fitting Construction Work of All kinds of Marble & Granite Slabs.

 

 

No. of Employees :

15

 

 

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:

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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 & address

 

PERFECT MARBLE CO. LTD.

 

ADDRESS:       Unit 3606, 36/F., Wu Chung House, 213 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong.

 

PHONE:            852-2677 0233

 

FAX:                 852-2191 1768,  2919 1717

 

E-MAIL:            marketing@perfectmarble.com.hk

 

MANAGEMENT:

 

Managing Director:        Mr. Ko Chung Lun

 

 

SUMMARY

 

Incorporated on:            9th October, 1981.

 

Organization:                 Private Limited Company.

 

Issued Shares Capital:   HK$50,000,000.00

 

Business Category:       Trading in marble & granite slabs.

 

Employees:                  15.

 

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

 

Banking Relation:          Satisfactory.

 

 

Name

 

PERFECT MARBLE CO. LTD.

 

 

ADDRESS

 

Registered Head Office:-

Unit 3606, 36/F., Wu Chung House, 213 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong.

 

Holding Company:-

Wide Ocean Investments Ltd.

The Premises of Commonwealth Trust Ltd., Drake Chambers, Tortola, British Virgin Islands.

 

Associated Companies:

Best Cheer (Quanzhou) Logistics Co. Ltd., China.

Best Cheer (Xiamen) Stone Works  Co. Ltd., China.

Best Cheer Africa Stone Co. Ltd., Namibia.

Best Cheer Development Ltd., Hong Kong.  (Same address)

Best Cheer Environmental Technology Co. Ltd., China.

Best Cheer New Styled Construction Co. Ltd., China.

Best Cheer Stone (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., China.

Best cheer Stone (Tianjin) Co. Ltd., China.

Best Cheer Stone Inc., USA.

China Marble (H.K.) Ltd., Hong Kong.

Dongguan You Lian Construction & Materials Co. Ltd., China.

Miyi County Yutian Mining Co. Ltd., China.

Shenzhen Lianyi Decoration Engineering Co. Ltd., China.

Yu Do Estates Ltd., Hong Kong.

Yu Do Investment Holdings Ltd., Hong Kong.

Yu Do Marble Co. Ltd., Hong Kong.

Yu Tian Stone (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd., China.

Zhong Lei Stone (Chengde) Co. Ltd., China.

Zhong Lei Stone (Rongcheng) Co. Ltd., China.

 

 

BUSINESS REGISTRATION NUMBER

 

07541411

 

 

COMPANY FILE NUMBER

 

0103903

 

 

MANAGEMENT

 

Managing Director:                    Mr. Ko Chung Lun

Deputy General Manager:          Ms. Li Sau Lin

 

 

ISSUED SHARES CAPITAL

 

HK$50,000,000.00

 

SHAREHOLDERS

 

(As per registry dated 09-10-2014)

Name

 

No. of shares

Wide Ocean Investments Ltd.

The Premises of Commonwealth Trust Ltd., Drake Chambers, Tortola, British Virgin Islands.

 

4,999,975

KO Yu Man

 

25

 

 

‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑

 

Total:

5,000,000

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DIRECTORS

 

(As per registry dated 09-10-2014)

Name

(Nationality)

 

Address

LI Sau Lin

Unit 3606, 36/F., Wu Chung Hose, 213 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong.

 

KWONG Choi Kuen

Unit 3606, 36/F., Wu Chung Hose, 213 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong.

 

CHEUNG Wai Man

Unit 3606, 36/F., Wu Chung Hose, 213 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong.

 

KO Yu Man

Suite 2319, 23/F., Convention Plaza Apartment, 1 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong.

 

KO Chung Lun

Suite 2319, 23/F., Convention Plaza Apartment, 1 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong.

 

 

SECRETARY

 

(As per registry dated 09-10-2014)

Name

Address

Co. No.

Wisdom Faith Consultancy Ltd.

Unit B, 17/F., JCG Building, 16 Mongkok Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

0640008

 

 

HISTORY

 

The company was incorporated on 9th October, 1981 as a private limited liability company under the Hong Kong Companies Ordinance.

 

It was originally registered under the name of Kwok Wai Co. Ltd. and changed to the present style on 1st December, 1981.

 

The subject moved to Suite 2901, 29/F., Great Eagle Centre, 23 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong from 9/F., Centre Point, 181‑185 Gloucester Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong with effect from 24th April, 1999.

 

The subject moved to the present address in September 2001.

 

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

 

 

OPERATIONS

 

Activities:                      Importers and Suppliers; Marble Fitting Construction Work.

 

Lines:                           All kinds of marble & granite slabs.

 

Employees:                  15.

 

Commodities Imported: Mainly imported from Italy, Portugal, Brazil, Africa, India.

 

Markets:                        Hong Kong, China, other Asian countries.

 

Terms/Sales:                 COD or as per contracted.

 

Terms/Buying:               Various terms.

 

MEMBERSHIP:             Hong Kong Marble & Granite Merchants Association

 

 

FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

Issued Share Capital:                 HK$50,000,000.00

 

Mortgage or Charge:-

Date of Master Agreement:        03-01-2011

Amount:                                    All moneies and liabilities due by the company

Property:                                  Any sum or sums which are deposited by the company with chargee

Mortgagee:                               Taipei Fubon Commercial Banking Corporation Ltd., Hong Kong Branch.

 

Profit or Loss:                           Business is profitable.

 

Condition:                                 Business is normal.

 

Facilities:                                  Making active use of general banking facilities.

 

Payment:                                  Met as contracted.

 

Commercial Morality:                 Satisfactory.

 

Bankers:-

Standard Chartered Bank, Hong Kong Branch.

Taipei Fubon Commercial Banking Corporation Ltd., Hong Kong Branch.

Chiyu Banking Corporation Ltd., Hong Kong.

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

 

Standing:                                  Very Good.

 

 

GENERAL

 

Perfect Marble Co. Ltd. is a subsidiary company of Wide Ocean Investments Ltd. which is a BVI-registered company.

 

Now, the subject is chiefly owned by the Ko family.  The Ko family set up Best Cheer Stone Group [Best Cheer] in 1994 while the subject is one of the core members.

 

The subject is engaged in the processing and marketing marble and granite products.  It is also a specialist in marble and granite installation works in Hong Kong and China.

 

Best Cheer has grown into the world’s largest vertically integrated stone company with 5,000 employees worldwide.

 

Best Cheer started its expansion into the US market in 2003, with the purchase of the famous Solar White quarry in North Carolina.

 

Best Cheer Stone, Inc. (BCS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Best Cheer, was established in 2004 to be the factory-direct distributors at both West Coast and East Coast in the United States.

 

BCS supplies a wide range of products including slabs (2 cm & 3 cm), pre-fabricated countertops, cut-to-size products for various commercial projects, façade panels and tiles.

 

Today, BCS is also the leading distributor of African range marble and granite in the Northern America from our newly acquired quarries in Namibia, Africa.

 

The Group is supported by its 10 factories (or production bases) in China and 22 quarries worldwide.  These include one in the United States and one in Norway.  The China production bases are in Hebei, Tianjin, Shandong, Shanghai, Sichuan, Fujian, Guangdong.

 

BCS is a member of the Marble Institute of America and the Building Stone Institute.

 

Best Cheer Group has introduced the global advanced fabricating equipment as many as 1,000 sets (these include 48 sets of granite sawing tool and 34 sets marble diamond sawing tool), and built the world’s most advanced and the most completed complex stone assembling line in China.

 

The Group’s largest warehouse and logistics base is in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China.  Best Cheer (Quanzhou) Logistic Ltd. is operating a bonded warehouse for stone materials.

 

The Group is importing more 600 types of stone material from worldwide suppliers.

 

Best Cheer Group has spread over 70 countries and places worldwide.  It was engaged in large project such as the Las Vegas Wynn Hotel in the United States, the Hamburg airport in Germany, Australian ASX Financial Center, The Atlantis Hotel in Dubai, The Presidential Mansion in Uzbekistan, The Poly Building in Beijing, The Time Square in Hong Kong, etc.  Its business is good and active.

 

Ms. Li Sau Lin, aged 52, joined the subject in February 1992 and was appointed as Executive Director of the subject in December 1993.  Ms. Li graduated from the University of Ottawa, Canada, in 1986 and holds a Bachelor of Social Science degree in Economics.  She oversees the Group’s marble business and has over 27 years’ experience in the field.  She is also one of the Directors of the subject.

 

The subject has had an associated company Best Cheer Development Ltd., a Hong Kong-registered company located at the same address.  Ms. Li Sau Lin is also the director of Best Cheer Development Ltd.

 

The history of the subject in Hong Kong is over 34 years.

 

On the whole, in view of the parentage and history of the subject, consider it good for normal business engagements.

 

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

 

Currency

Unit

Indian Rupees

US Dollar

1

Rs.64.88

UK Pound

1

Rs.99.89

Euro

1

Rs.72.06

 

 

INFORMATION DETAILS

 

Analysis Done by :

KAS

 

 

Report Prepared by :

TPT

 

               

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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