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MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

Report No. :

501918

Report Date :

09.04.2018

 

 

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Name :

CHESAPEAKE SPICE CO. LLC

 

 

Registered Office :

Corporation Service Company, 1201 Hays Street, Tallahassee, FL 32301

 

 

Country :

United States

 

 

Financials (as on) :

2016 [Summarized]

 

 

Date of Incorporation :

1986

 

 

Legal Form :

Limited Liability Company

 

 

Line of Business :

Subject Processes and Distributes Spices and Seasoning to the Food Industry.

 

 

No. of Employees :

200

 

 

RATING & COMMENTS

(Mira Inform has adopted New Rating mechanism w.e.f. 23rd January 2017)

 

MIRA’s Rating :

A

 

Credit Rating

 

Explanation

Rating Comments

A

Acceptable Risk

Business dealings permissible with moderate risk of default

 

Status :

Good

 

 

Payment Behaviour :

Regular

 

 

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

 

Country Name

                Previous Rating               

(30.09.2017)

Current Rating

(31.12.2017)

United States

A1

A1

 

Risk Category

 

ECGC Classification

Insignificant

 

A1

Low Risk

 

A2

Moderately Low Risk

 

B1

Moderate Risk

 

B2

Moderately High Risk

 

C1

High Risk

 

C2

Very High Risk

 

D

 


 

UNITED STATES - ECONOMIC OVERVIEW

 

The US has the most technologically powerful economy in the world, with a per capita GDP of $59,500. 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, businesses 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 more than 50% 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. Because the US economy is energy-intensive, falling oil prices since 2013 have alleviated many of the problems the earlier increases had created.

The sub-prime mortgage crisis, falling home prices, investment bank failures, tight credit, and the global economic downturn pushed the US into a recession by mid-2008. GDP contracted until the third quarter of 2009, 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, Congress passed and former 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. US revenues from taxes and other sources are lower, as a percentage of GDP, than those of most other countries.

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 FY 2018, the direct costs of the wars will have totaled more than $1.9 trillion, according to US Government figures.

In March 2010, former President OBAMA signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), a health insurance reform that was designed to extend coverage to an additional 32 million Americans by 2016, through private health insurance for the general population and Medicaid for the impoverished. Total spending on healthcare - public plus private - rose from 9.0% of GDP in 1980 to 17.9% in 2010.

In July 2010, the former 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%. The Fed ended its purchases during the summer of 2014, after the unemployment rate dropped to 6.2%, inflation stood at 1.7%, and public debt fell below 74% of GDP. In December 2015, the Fed raised its target for the benchmark federal funds rate by 0.25%, the first increase since the recession began. With continued low growth, the Fed opted to raise rates several times since then, and in December 2017, the target rate stood at 1.5%.

In December 2017, Congress passed and President Donald TRUMP signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which, among its various provisions, reduces the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%; lowers the individual tax rate for those with the highest incomes from 39.6% to 37%, and by lesser percentages for those at lower income levels; changes many deductions and credits used to calculate taxable income; and eliminates in 2019 the penalty imposed on taxpayers who do not obtain the minimum amount of health insurance required under the ACA. The new taxes took effect on 1 January 2018; the tax cut for corporations are permanent, but those for individuals are scheduled to expire after 2025. The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) under the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the new law will reduce tax revenues and increase the federal deficit by about $1.45 trillion over the 2018-2027 period. This amount would decline if economic growth were to exceed the JCT’s estimate.

 

Source : CIA

 

 


 

STATUTORY INFORMATION

 

Legal Name:

CHESAPEAKE SPICE CO. LLC

Trade Name:

CHESAPEAKE SPICE

ID:

Document Number

L12000153295

FEI/EIN Number

52-2207522

Date Created:

1986

Date Incorporated:

12/07/2012

Legal Address:

Corporation Service Company

1201 Hays Street

Tallahassee, FL 32301

Operative Address:

4613 Mercedes Dr, Belcamp, MD 21017,

USA

Telephone:

410 272 6100

Fax:

410-273-2122

Legal Form:

Limited Liability Company

Email:

csc@chesapeakespice.com

Registered in:

FLORIDA, USA

Website:

www.chesapeakespice.com

Contact:

MELAMED, BRUCE

Staff:

200 Employees

Activity:

NAICS 1: Spice and Extract Manufacturing

SIC 1: Spices, Including Grinding

 

 

BANKS

 

 

 

FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF PENNSYLVANIA

ONE NORTH SHORE CENTER 12 FEDERAL STREET, SUITE 500 PITTSBURGH PA 15212

 

 

HISTORY

 

 

 

Chesapeake Spice Co. was founded in 1986 and incorporated in 2012.

Key Developments:

NA

 

 

PRINCIPAL ACTIVITY

 

 

 

Chesapeake Spice Company, LLC processes and distributes spices and seasoning to the food industry.

Products/Services description:

The Company offers bell peppers, monosodium glutamate, chives, sauces, soups, salad dressings, spices, herbs, and bakery products.

Brands:

No brands registered

Sales are:

Wholesale

Clients:

Congeladora Y Empac Nal SA De Cv

Suppliers:

GIZA SEEDS & HERBS

Cv. Bandar Kencana

Union Standard De Mexico S.A. De Cv

Operations area:

National and International

The company imports from

Indonesia, Egypt,  Mexico

The company exports to

Mexico

The subject employs

200 Employees

Payments:

Regular

 

 

LOCATION

 

 

Headquarters :

4613 MERCEDES DRIVE, Belcamp, MD, USA

Comments:

4613 Mercedes Dr

This business is located at 4613 Mercedes Dr, a commercial address in Belcamp, MD. The warehouse was last sold on March 08, 2004 for $1.15 million USD.

 

Estimated Value

 

The warehouse has an estimated value of $8.36 million USD, which is slightly above average for warehouses in the area. When the building was last assessed in 2012, the assessment value was $8.35 million USD.

 

Property Size

 

With 128,227 square feet of space, this building is one of the largest warehouses in the 21017 zip code. The average warehouse in the area has around 2,956 square feet.

Branches:

Chesapeake Spice Company -Reno

8760 Technology Way

Reno, NV 89521

Main Competitors

Vanns Spices

Fuchs North America

McCormick Spice Mill

Related Companies:

No related companies

 

 

GROUP STRUCTURE AND SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES

 

Listed at the stock exchange:

NO

Capital:

NA

Shareholders:

This is a private company. Major holders are:

 

Larry Lessans

David Lessans

Management:

Authorized Person(s) Detail

Name & Address

 

Title CFO

MELAMED, BRUCE

4613 MERCEDES DRIVE

BELCAMP, MD 21017

 

Title Manager

LESSANS, DAVID G.

4613 MERCEDES DRIVE

BELCAMP, MD 21017

 

Title Manager

LESSANS, LAWRENCE B.

4613 MERCEDES DRIVE

BELCAMP, MD 21017

 

Title Manager

LESSANS, MARGOT B.

4613 MERCEDES DRIVE

BELCAMP, MD 21017

 

 

FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

 

The company does not make its financial statements public. The following information has been provided by private sources:

USD 2016

 

Sales

27 470 000

Cash flow

Normal

 

 

LEGAL FILINGS

 

 

 

Lawsuits:

No lawsuits found

 

 

UCC:

Debtor  Organization     

CHESAPEAKE SPICE CO. LLC
Secured Party   Organization     

MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY

0000000181411154       

UCC-1 Financing Statement      

12/22/2010 1:15:00 PM

12/22/2020

 

Debtor  Organization     

CHESAPEAKE SPICE CO. LLC
Secured Party   Organization     

MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY

0000000181420884       

UCC-1 Financing Statement      

5/17/2011 11:07:00 AM 

5/17/2021

 

Debtor  Organization     

CHESAPEAKE SPICE CO. LLC
Secured Party   Organization     

BB&T EQUIPMENT FINANCE CORPORATION

0000000181443808       

UCC-1 Financing Statement      

4/13/2012 11:36:00 AM 

4/13/2022         

 

Debtor  Organization     

CHESAPEAKE SPICE CO. LLC
Secured Party   Organization     

BB&T EQUIPMENT FINANCE CORPORATION

0000000181456549       

UCC-1 Financing Statement      

10/10/2012 11:23:00 AM

10/10/2022

 

 

Renewal History

Annual Reports

Report Year      Filed Date

2016     03/23/2016

2017     04/19/2017

2018     01/16/2018

 

 

 

OFAC

Sanctions List Search:

 

The company is not listed in the OFAC list.

 

 

SUMMARY

 

 

 

Chesapeake Spice Co. was incorporated in 2012. It is a large-sized organization with 200 employees and an annual revenue of 27.47.

 

The company processes and distributes spices and seasoning to the food industry.

 

It mainly exports to Mexico and imports from Mexico, Indonesia, Egypt.

 

It is ACTIVE in MARYLAND, USA; with no negative records.

 

 

RISK INFORMATION

 

 

 

DEBTS

Controlled

PAYMENTS

Regular

CASH FLOW

Normal

STATUS

ACTIVE

 

 

INTERVIEW

 

NAME

NA

POSITION

NA

COMMENTS

They did not provide information.

 

 

 

 

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

 

Currency

Unit

Indian Rupees

US Dollar

1

INR 64.98

UK Pound

1

INR 90.95

Euro

1

INR 79.51

US Dollar

1

INR 64.90

 

Note : Above are approximate rates obtained from sources believed to be correct

 

 

INFORMATION DETAILS

 

Analysis Done by :

VAR

 

 

Report Prepared by :

TPT

 


 

RATING EXPLANATIONS

 

Credit Rating

 

Explanation

Rating Comments

A++

Minimum Risk

Business dealings permissible with minimum risk of default

A+

Low Risk

Business dealings permissible with low risk of default

A

Acceptable Risk

Business dealings permissible with moderate risk of default

B

Medium Risk

Business dealings permissible on a regular monitoring basis

C

Medium High Risk

Business dealings permissible preferably on secured basis

D

High Risk

Business dealing not recommended or on secured terms only

NB

New Business

No recommendation can be done due to business in infancy stage

NT

No Trace

No recommendation can be done as the business is not traceable

 

NB is stated where there is insufficient information to facilitate rating. However, it is not to be considered as unfavourable.

 

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 are as follows:

 

·         Financial condition covering various ratios

·         Company background and operations size

·         Promoters / Management background

·         Payment record

·         Litigation against the subject

·         Industry scenario / competitor analysis

·         Supplier / Customer / Banker review (wherever available)

 

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