MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

Report No. :

341917

Report Date :

24.09.2015

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Name :

CENTRALIS TRADERS

 

 

Registered Office :

Room 802, 8/F., Dina House, Ruttonjee Centre, 11 Duddell Street, Central

 

 

Country :

Hong Kong

 

 

Date of Incorporation :

15.08.1997

 

 

Com. Reg. No.:

15296521-001-02

 

 

Legal Form :

Sole Ownership

 

 

Line of Business :

Importer, Exporter and Wholesaler of Foodstuffs, electric fans, audio/video consumer electronics, hardware, newsprint paper, housewares, leather jackets and skirts, chemicals, agro-chemicals, pharmaceuticals, dye intermediates, and sundries.

 

 

No. of Employees :

8. (Including Sole Owner)

 

 

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

 

CENTRALIS TRADERS

 

ADDRESS:       Room 802, 8/F., Dina House, Ruttonjee Centre, 11 Duddell Street, Central, Hong Kong.

 

PHONE:            852-2523 8089,  6202 3369 (Mobile)

 

FAX:                 852-2810 7899

 

E-MAIL:            doult@netvigator.com

chembiz@netvigator.com

 

MANAGEMENT:

 

Manager:  Mr. Hasaram Gobindram Melwani

 

 

SUMMARY

 

Establishment:                          15th August, 1997.

 

Organization:                 Sole Ownership.

 

Capital:                         Not disclosed.

 

Business Category:       Importer, Exporter and Wholesaler.

 

Employees:                  8. (Including Sole Owner)

 

Main Dealing Banker:     The Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corp. Ltd., Hong Kong.

 

Banking Relation:          Satisfactory.

 

 

Name

 

CENTRALIS TRADERS

 

 

ADDRESS

 

Head Office:-

Room 802, 8/F., Dina House, Ruttonjee Centre, 11 Duddell Street, Central, Hong Kong.

 

Parent Company:-

Doultsons Ltd., Hong Kong.  (See attachment)

 

Ultimate Parent Company:-

Mural Holdings Ltd.

P.O. Box 71, Craigmuir Chambers, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands.

 

Sister Company:-

Maruto Trading Company, Hong Kong.  [BR No. 15296521-002-02]  (Same address)

 

 

BUSINESS REGISTRATION NUMBER

 

15296521-001-02

 

 

MANAGEMENT

 

Manager:  Mr. Hasaram Gobindram Melwani

Contact Person:  Mr. Neel Subbu

 

 

SOLE OWNER

 

Doultsons Ltd., Hong Kong.  (See attachment)

 

HISTORY:

The subject was established on 15th August, 1997 as a sole ownership firm with Doultsons Ltd. as the proprietor under the Hong Kong Business Registration Regulations.

At the very beginning, the subject was located at Room 402, 4/F., Sing Pao Centre, 8 Queens Road Central, Hong Kong, moved to Room 1303, 13/F., Ruttonjee House, Ruttonjee Centre, 11 Duddell Street, Central, Hong Kong in March 1998, and further moved to the present address in January 2012.

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

 

 

OPERATIONS

 

Activities:                      Importer, Exporter and Wholesaler.

 

Lines:                           Foodstuffs, electric fans, audio/video consumer electronics, hardware, newsprint paper,

housewares, leather jackets and skirts, chemicals, agro-chemicals, pharmaceuticals, dye intermediates, and sundries.

 

Employees:                  8.  (Including Sole Owner)

 

Commodities Imported: Imported from Europe, China, Taiwan, South Korea.

 

Markets:                        North America, Africa.

 

Terms/Sales:                 L/C, T/T.

 

Terms/Buying:               L/C, D/P and T/T.

 

MEMBERSHIP:             The Indian Chamber of Commerce Hong Kong, Hong Kong. (Parent company)

 

 

FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

Capital:                         Not disclosed.

 

Profit & Loss:               Making a small profit every year.

 

Condition:                     Keeping in an active and satisfactory manner.

 

Facilities:                      Making active use of general banking facilities.

 

Payment:                      Met obligations as contracted.

 

Commercial Morality:     Satisfactory.

 

Banker:                         The Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corp. Ltd., Hong Kong.

 

Standing:                      Normal.

 

 

GENERAL

 

Centralis Traders is operated by Doultsons Ltd. [Doultsons] which is also located at the operating address of the subject.

 

The subject is engaged in the same line of business and carrying the same commodities as Doultsons.

 

Currently, the subject is trading in the following commodities: Food Ingredients, Industrial Chemicals, & Fertilisers.

The subject markets its products under its own Longman Brand.

 

Longman Food Ingredients -- mono sodium glutamate, salt, sodium saccharin, aspartame, liquid glucose, sodium bicarbonate, ammonium bicarbonate, dry instant yeast & baking powder.

 

Longman Industrial Chemicals -- titanium dioxide, soda ash light & dense, sodium nitrite & nitrate, sodium hydrosulphite, melamine, caustic soda, calcium chloride, & calcium carbide.

 

Longman Fertilizers -- urea, potassium chloride, potassium nitrate, diammonium phosphate.

 

The products of Longman are exported to more than 20 countries and districts in Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, East & West Africa and India.

 

Doultsons is a private limited company wholly-owned by Mural Holdings Ltd., a BVI-registered firm.  Its Managing Director, Mr. Hasaram Gobindram Melwani, is an Indian who has been in Hong Kong for a very long time.  He is a Hong Kong ID card holder.

 

In fact, Doultsons is wholly-owned by the Melwani family.

 

Doultsons is a well established trading firm in Hong Kong.  It is registered in Hong Kong but is also a China trader.

The subject and its parent have a rather high credit rating with leading banks and has a reputation for being “trustworthy, reliable and honourable” in their business activities.

 

According to the subject, its annual sales turnover (including Doultsons) is over US$100 million.  Overall business is satisfactory.  Making a profit every year.

 

The contact person Mr. Neel Subbu is also an Indian.

 

On the whole, since the history of the subject is over eighteen years and a month, consider it good for normal business engagements.

 


Company Name

 

DOULTSONS LTD.

(Trading as CENTRALIS TRADERS and MARUTO TRADING COMPANY)

 

 

ADDRESS

 

Room 802, 8/F., Dina House, Ruttonjee Centre, 11 Duddell Street, Central, Hong Kong.

 

 

BUSINESS REGISTRATION NUMBER

 

15296521-000-02

 

 

COMPANY FILE NUMBER

 

0343150

 

 

DATE OF INCORPORATION

 

11th February, 1992.

 

 

ISSUED SHARE CAPITAL

 

HK$8,000,000.00

 

 

SHAREHOLDERS

 

(As per registry dated 11-02-2015)

Name

 

No. of shares

Mural Holdings Ltd.

P.O. Box 71, Craigmuir Chambers, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands.

 

7,999,999

Hasaram Gobindram MELWANI

 

1

 

 

––––––––

 

Total:

8,000,000

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DIRECTORS

 

(As per registry dated 11-02-2015)

Name

(Nationality)

 

Address

Naresh Hassaram MELWANI

Flat 1, 21/F., Block C, Villa Monte Rosa, 41A Stubbs Road, Hong Kong.

 

Hasaram Gobindram MELWANI

Flat 1, 21/F., Block C, Villa Monte Rosa, 41A Stubbs Road, Hong Kong.

 

 

SECRETARY

 

Naresh Hassaram MELWANI (As per registry dated 11-02-2015)

 

 

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

 

Currency

Unit

Indian Rupees

US Dollar

1

Rs.65.97

UK Pound

1

Rs.101.19

Euro

1

Rs.73.37

 

 

INFORMATION DETAILS

 

Analysis Done by :

RAS

 

 

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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