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Report No. : |
342015 |
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Report Date : |
24.09.2015 |
IDENTIFICATION DETAILS
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Name : |
DISTRIBUTION INTERNATIONAL, INC. |
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Registered Office : |
9000 Railwood Drive, Houston, TX 77078 |
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Country : |
United States |
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Date of Incorporation : |
24.06.1997 |
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Legal Form : |
Corporation – Profit |
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Line of Business : |
Distributor of thermal and acoustical insulation and related supplies
for maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) to industrial, marine,
commercial, and governmental sectors. |
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No. of Employees : |
800+ |
RATING & COMMENTS
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MIRA’s Rating : |
Ba |
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RATING |
STATUS |
PROPOSED CREDIT LINE |
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41-55 |
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Overall operation is considered normal. Capable to meet normal
commitments. |
Satisfactory |
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Status : |
Satisfactory |
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Payment Behaviour : |
No Complaints |
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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
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Country Name |
Previous Rating (31.12.2014) |
Current Rating (31.03.2015) |
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United States |
A1 |
A1 |
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Risk Category |
ECGC
Classification |
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Insignificant |
A1 |
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Low |
A2 |
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Moderate |
B1 |
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High |
B2 |
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Very High |
C1 |
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Restricted |
C2 |
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Off-credit |
D |
UNITED STATES - ECONOMIC OVERVIEW
The US has the most technologically powerful economy in the world, with a per capita GDP of $54,800. US firms are at or near the forefront in technological advances, especially in computers, pharmaceuticals, and medical, aerospace, and military equipment; however, their advantage has narrowed since the end of World War II. Based on a comparison of GDP measured at Purchasing Power Parity conversion rates, the US economy in 2014, having stood as the largest in the world for more than a century, slipped into second place behind China, which has more than tripled the US growth rate for each year of the past four decades.
In the US, private individuals and business firms make most of the decisions, and the federal and state governments buy needed goods and services predominantly in the private marketplace. US business firms enjoy greater flexibility than their counterparts in Western Europe and Japan in decisions to expand capital plant, to lay off surplus workers, and to develop new products. At the same time, they face higher barriers to enter their rivals' home markets than foreign firms face entering US markets.
Long-term problems for the US include stagnation of wages for lower-income families, inadequate investment in deteriorating infrastructure, rapidly rising medical and pension costs of an aging population, energy shortages, and sizable current account and budget deficits.
The onrush of technology has been a driving factor in the gradual development of a "two-tier" labor market in which those at the bottom lack the education and the professional/technical skills of those at the top and, more and more, fail to get comparable pay raises, health insurance coverage, and other benefits. But the globalization of trade, and especially the rise of low-wage producers such as China, has put additional downward pressure on wages and upward pressure on the return to capital. Since 1975, practically all the gains in household income have gone to the top 20% of households. Since 1996, dividends and capital gains have grown faster than wages or any other category of after-tax income.
Imported oil accounts for nearly 55% of US consumption and oil has a major impact on the overall health of the economy. Crude oil prices doubled between 2001 and 2006, the year home prices peaked; higher gasoline prices ate into consumers' budgets and many individuals fell behind in their mortgage payments. Oil prices climbed another 50% between 2006 and 2008, and bank foreclosures more than doubled in the same period. Besides dampening the housing market, soaring oil prices caused a drop in the value of the dollar and a deterioration in the US merchandise trade deficit, which peaked at $840 billion in 2008.
The sub-prime mortgage crisis, falling home prices, investment bank failures, tight credit, and the global economic downturn pushed the United States into a recession by mid-2008. GDP contracted until the third quarter of 2009, making this the deepest and longest downturn since the Great Depression. To help stabilize financial markets, the US Congress established a $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) in October 2008. The government used some of these funds to purchase equity in US banks and industrial corporations, much of which had been returned to the government by early 2011. In January 2009 the US Congress passed and President Barack OBAMA signed a bill providing an additional $787 billion fiscal stimulus to be used over 10 years - two-thirds on additional spending and one-third on tax cuts - to create jobs and to help the economy recover. In 2010 and 2011, the federal budget deficit reached nearly 9% of GDP. In 2012, the federal government reduced the growth of spending and the deficit shrank to 7.6% of GDP.
Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan required major shifts in national resources from civilian to military purposes and contributed to the growth of the budget deficit and public debt. Through 2014, the direct costs of the wars totaled more than $1.5 trillion, according to US Government figures. US revenues from taxes and other sources are lower, as a percentage of GDP, than those of most other countries.
In March 2010, President OBAMA signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a health insurance reform that was designed to extend coverage to an additional 32 million American citizens by 2016, through private health insurance for the general population and Medicaid for the impoverished. Total spending on health care - public plus private - rose from 9.0% of GDP in 1980 to 17.9% in 2010.
In July 2010, the president signed the DODD-FRANK Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a law designed to promote financial stability by protecting consumers from financial abuses, ending taxpayer bailouts of financial firms, dealing with troubled banks that are "too big to fail," and improving accountability and transparency in the financial system - in particular, by requiring certain financial derivatives to be traded in markets that are subject to government regulation and oversight.
In December 2012, the Federal Reserve Board (Fed) announced plans to purchase $85 billion per month of mortgage-backed and Treasury securities in an effort to hold down long-term interest rates, and to keep short term rates near zero until unemployment dropped below 6.5% or inflation rose above 2.5%. In late 2013, the Fed announced that it would begin scaling back long-term bond purchases to $75 billion per month in January 2014 and reduce them further as conditions warranted; the Fed ended the purchases during the summer of 2014. In 2014, the unemployment rate dropped to 6.2%, and continued to fall to 5.5% by mid-2015, the lowest rate of joblessness since before the global recession began; inflation stood at 1.7%, and public debt as a share of GDP continued to decline, following several years of increase.
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Source
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Company name: DISTRIBUTION INTERNATIONAL, INC.
Address: 9000
Railwood Drive, Houston, TX 77078 - USA
Telephone: +1
713-428-3700
Fax: +1 713-428-3777
Website: www.distributioninternational.com
Corporate ID#: 2765943
State: Delaware
Judicial form: Corporation – Profit
Date incorporated: 06-24-1997
Stock: -
Value: -
Name of manager: Celeste
MASTIN, CEO
Business:
Distribution International, Inc. operates as a value added distributor
of thermal and acoustical insulation and related supplies for maintenance,
repair, and operations (MRO) to industrial, marine, commercial, and
governmental sectors in North America and internationally.
The company distributes insulation products, abatement supplies, fire
protection products, refractory products, tools and equipment, fabrication
products, marine products, safety and contractor supplies, and removable pads.
It serves abatement contractors and supply houses; commercial and government
contractors; electrical contractors and supply houses; engineering firms;
equipment sales and rental houses; general and mechanical contractors;
hospitals; industrial plant and utility owners; insulation contractors;
marine contractors and supply houses; medical supply houses; mining
operations and supply houses; municipalities; OEM accounts; painting
contractors and supply houses; pipe fabricators; plumbing contractors and
supply houses; safety supply houses; scaffolding contractors and rental houses;
tool supply houses; transportation, manufacturing, and maintenance companies;
universities; utilities; and welding contractors and supply houses.
Distribution International, Inc. was formerly known as SIG USA, Inc.
The company was founded in 1986 and is based in Houston, Texas.
It has 64 distribution centers in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas,
California, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri,
Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia, as well as in British Columbia, Alberta,
Ontario, Quebec, and Nova Scotia in Canada.
As of December 15, 2014, the Company is a subsidiary of ADVENT
INTERNATIONAL
Office of the Foreign
Assets Control (OFAC):
The company is not listed on the OFAC list.
The Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List is a publication of OFAC
which lists individuals and organizations with whom United States citizens and
permanent residents are prohibited from doing business.
Foreign suppliers
include:
ITW INDIA LIMITED
3RD FLOOR,MERCHANT TOWERS 5, ROAD NO.4,BANJARA HILLS,HYDERABAD-500 00
INDIA
EIN: 76-0541372
Staff: 800+
Operations & branches:
At the headquarters, we
find a large warehouse and office.
The Company maintains 64
branches in the U.S.
Shareholders:
On December 15, 2014,
ADVENT INTERNATIONAL (+50%)
375 Park Avenue, 31st Floor
New York, NY 10152
Acquired a majority interest.
Former shareholder:
AUDAX GROUP
101 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02199
maintains a small equity.
Management:

Ms. Celeste Beeks MASTIN has been the Chief Executive Officer at
Distribution International, Inc. since February 11, 2013.
Ms. Mastin is an experienced building products executive. She served as
the Chief Executive Officer of MMI Products, Inc. at CRH plc. Prior to MMI
Products, Ms. Mastin spent 17 years in the chemical industry. She started her
career in sales at Shell Chemical, where she served five years in sales
positions of increasing responsibility. Her sales experience expanded at
Bostik, Inc., where she served European and later global sales management
positions. She served as Vice President and General Manager of Nonwovens
Division at Bostik Findley, Inc. since 2001. She served as General Manager of
Nitta Findley Co., Ltd., since 2001. She served as Global Sales and Marketing
Director of Ato Findley, Inc./ Bostik Findley, Inc., since 2000. She served as
Vice President of Growth and Development of Ferro Corp. since 2006, where she
was responsible for creating a corporate purchasing function, consolidating the
corporation’s $1.3 billion in spend into a centralized operating group. She
served as Vice President of Color and Glass Performance Materials since 2004.
She has been a Director of Metabolix, Inc., since January 19, 2012.
Ms. Mastin holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from
Washington State University and a Master's degree in Business Administration
from the University of Houston.
Douglas A. WAUGAMAN is the CFO.
As far as we know, they are involved in several other corporations,
including:
DISTRIBUTION INTERNATIONAL SOUTHWEST, INC.
INSULATION FABRICATORS, INC.
BWI DISTRIBUTION, INC.
and others.
In United States, privately
held corporations are not required to publish any financials.
On a direct call, a
financial assistant controlled the present report but deferred any financials,
adding that the revenue for the group is in excess of USD 100,000,000+
The business is profitable.
Banks: JPMorgan Chase Bank
Legal filings
& complaints:
As of today date, there is no legal filing pending with the Courts.
Secured debts
summary (UCC):
Several