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MIRA
INFORM REPORT
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Report No. : |
491682 |
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Report Date : |
16.02.2018 |
IDENTIFICATION DETAILS
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Name : |
VERTELLUS PERFORMANCE CHEMICALS LLC |
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Registered Office : |
251 Little Falls Drive, Wilmington, New Castle, DE, 19808,
USA |
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Country : |
United States |
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Date of Incorporation : |
11.07.2014 |
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Legal Form : |
Limited Liability Company |
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Line of Business : |
Subject is a gloabal leader in sodium borohydride chemistry for the life sciences, paper, and specialty additives markets. The company offers sodium borohydride chemistry |
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No. of Employees : |
12 |
RATING & COMMENTS
(Mira Inform has adopted New Rating mechanism w.e.f. 23rd
January 2017)
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MIRA’s Rating : |
A |
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Credit Rating |
Explanation |
Rating Comments |
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A |
Acceptable Risk |
Business dealings permissible with
moderate risk of default |
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Status : |
Satisfactory |
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Payment Behaviour : |
Slow but Correct |
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Litigation : |
Exist |
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
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Country Name |
Previous Rating (30.06.2017) |
Current Rating (30.09.2017) |
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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 Risk |
A2 |
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Moderately Low Risk |
B1 |
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Moderate Risk |
B2 |
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Moderately High Risk |
C1 |
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High Risk |
C2 |
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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 $57,300. 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 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. 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, 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, 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. 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 2014, the direct costs of the wars totaled more than $1.5 trillion, according to US Government figures.
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 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 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 further reduce them 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 increases. 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 US GDP growth below 2%, the Fed opted to raise rates three times since then, and in mid-June 2017, the range for the target rate stood at 1% to 1.25%.
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Source
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STATUTORY INFORMATION
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Legal Name: |
VERTELLUS PERFORMANCE CHEMICALS LLC |
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Trade
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VERTELLUS PERFORMANCE CHEMICALS LLC |
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ID: |
5636025 |
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Date Created: |
2014 |
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Date Incorporated: |
11/7/2014 |
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Legal Address: |
251 LITTLE FALLS DRIVE, WILMINGTON, NEW
CASTLE, DE, 19808, USA |
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Operative Address: |
201 N ILLINOIS ST, SUITE 1800,
INDIANAPOLIS, IN, 46204-4235, USA |
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Telephone: |
1 (973) 515-9677 (360) 482-8819 |
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Fax: |
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Legal Form: |
LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY |
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Email: |
canderson@vertellus.com |
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Registered in: |
DELAWARE |
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Website: |
www.sodiumborohydride.com |
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Contact: |
Michael Huff – Chief Executive Officer |
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Staff: |
12 |
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Activity: |
NAICS 1: All Other Basic Organic
Chemical Manufacturing SIC 1: Industrial Organic Chemicals, Nec |
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Banks: |
BANK OF AMERICA |
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History: |
The company was founded in 2014. Wind
Point acquired Vertellus Performance Chemicals LLC in January 2015 as an
add-on for Vertellus Specialties, Inc., a former Wind Point portfolio
company. VPC is now a standalone company under
Wind Point ownership. |
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Parent Company: |
The company operates as a subsidiary of: Wind Point Partners, L.P. 676 N Michigan Ave # 3700 Chicago, IL, United States |
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Key Developments: |
VERTELLUS PERFORMANCE CHEMICALS TO
INCREASE PRICES FOR SODIUM BOROHYDRIDE IN EUROPE, NORTH AMERICA, AND INDIA Vertellus Performance Chemicals to
increase prices for Sodium Borohydride in Europe, North America, and India August 8, 2017 Effective September 1, 2017, or
thereafter as contracts allow, Vertellus Performance Chemicals LLC is
increasing prices by 10% on all grades and brands of sodium borohydride sold
in North America, Europe, and India. These increases are primarily due to
increased raw material & operating costs. |
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PRINCIPAL ACTIVITY |
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Vertellus Performance Chemicals LLC is a
gloabal leader in sodium borohydride chemistry for the life sciences, paper,
and specialty additives markets. |
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Products/Services description: |
The company offers sodium borohydride
chemistry. |
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Brands: |
VERTELLUS |
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Sales are: |
Wholesale |
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Clients: |
Quimtia S.A.S. Hasmukhray & Co. Cpingredientes SA De Cv K E N T H O Quimica De Monterrey SA De Cv Industrias Quimicas Falcon De Mexicosa De
Cv |
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Suppliers: |
NA |
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Operations area: |
National and International |
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The company
imports from |
No import records found. |
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The company exports to |
COLOMBIA INDIA MEXICO |
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The subject employs |
12 employees |
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Payments: |
Slow but Correct |
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LOCATION |
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Headquarters : |
201 N ILLINOIS ST, SUITE 1800 , INDIANAPOLIS,
IN, 46204-4235, USA |
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Comments on Address: |
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Branches: |
SHIPPING LOCATION 4800 State Route 12 Elma, Washington 98541 United States |
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Related Companies: |
No related companies were found. |
GROUP STRUCTURE AND SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES |
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Listed at the stock exchange: |
NO |
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Capital: |
NA |
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Shareholders: |
The company does not disclose
information on shareholders. The following information has been obtained
through private sources and could not be confirmed: The company operates as a subsidiary of: Wind Point Partners, L.P. 676 N Michigan Ave # 3700 Chicago, IL, United States |
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Management: |
Michael Huff – Chief Executive Officer Chris Anderson - Global Marketing Manager Steven Hochhauser – Chairman of the
Board Alex Washington Joseph Lawler Craig Wien Peter Leemputte |
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FINANCIAL INFORMATION |
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The company
does not make its financial statements public. The following information has
been provided by private sources: |
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USD 2015 |
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Revenue |
3.404.000 |
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Cash flow |
Normal |
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LEGAL FILINGS |
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PATENTS |
Method for reducing color in used
lubricating oil Patent number: 9708565 Abstract: A method for reducing color in
used lubricating oil. The method comprises combining: (i) a used lubricating
oil; (ii) an alkali metal borohydride; and (iii) a bisulfite or metabisulfite
salt. Type: Grant Filed: January 21, 2013 Date of Patent: July 18, 2017 Assignee: Vertellus Performance
Chemicals, LLC Inventor: Antjo H. Meijerhof |
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GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS |
No records found. |
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CASES |
The Valence Group, LLC v. VSI Holdings
LLC et al. Plaintiff: The Valence Group, LLC Defendant: VSI Holdings LLC, VSI
Acquisition Corp., Vertellus SBH Holdings LLC and Vertellus Performance
Chemicals LLC Case Number: 1:2017cv02706 Filed: April 14, 2017 Court: New York Southern District Court Office: Foley Square Office Presiding Judge: Katherine B. Forrest Nature of Suit: Other Contract Cause of Action: 28:1332 Jury Demanded By: None |
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TRADEMARKS |
BOROL AQUEOUS SOLUTION OF SODIUM BOROHYDRIDE
AND SODIUM HYDROXIDE FOR USE IN THE BLEACHING AND STABILIZATION OF WOOD PULP Owned by: VERTELLUS PERFORMANCE
CHEMICALS LLC Serial Number: 72228381 VENMET CHEMICALS; NAMELY, AN AQUEOUS SOLUTION
OF SODIUM BOROHYDRIDE AND SODIUM HYDROXIDE FOR USE IN THE RECOVERY OF METALS
FROM… Owned by: VERTELLUS PERFORMANCE
CHEMICALS LLC Serial Number: 73601686 VENPURE SODIUM BOROHYDRIDE IN SOLID OR AQUEOUS
SOLUTION FORM FOR USE IN PURIFICATION OF ORGANIC CHEMICALS Owned by: VERTELLUS PERFORMANCE
CHEMICALS LLC Serial Number: 73601988 BOROL machines, namely a unit used in the wood
pulp industry to generate a bleach produced from a solution containing sodium
borohydride… Owned by: VERTELLUS PERFORMANCE
CHEMICALS LLC Serial Number: 75733187 COLORCLEAR CHEMICALS; NAMELY, SODIUM BOROHYDRIDE
AND SODIUM BISULFITE USED TO TREAT WASTE WATER IN THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY Owned by: VERTELLUS PERFORMANCE
CHEMICALS LLC Serial Number: 75734293 BOROFUEL Chemical compositions for use in fuel
cells Owned by: VERTELLUS PERFORMANCE
CHEMICALS LLC Serial Number: 77319760 |
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RENEWAL HISTORY |
No records found. |
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UCC |
No records found. |
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OFAC Sanctions List Search |
The company is not listed in the OFAC
list. |
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SUMMARY |
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Vertellus Performance Chemicals Llc is a
small, fairly new organization in the organic chemicals manufacturers
industry located in Elma, WA. It opened its doors in 2014 and now has
an estimated $3.4 million in yearly revenue and approximately 12 employees. The company operates nationally and
internationally, mainly exporting to Colombia, India and Mexico. It is ACTIVE
in business with a medium credit risk. |
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RISK INFORMATION |
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DEBTS |
Controlled |
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PAYMENTS |
Slow but Correct |
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CASH FLOW |
Normal |
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STATUS |
Active |
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INTERVIEW |
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NAME |
Jeremy |
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POSITION |
- |
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COMMENTS |
He confirmed the name of the company,
the address of the headquarters and location, the date of creation of the
company, the number of employees and the name of the Chief Executive Officer.
He was reluctant to provide further information. |
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
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Currency |
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Indian Rupees |
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US Dollar |
1 |
INR 63.92 |
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1 |
INR 89.55 |
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Euro |
1 |
INR 79.68 |
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US Dollar |
1 |
INR 63.88 |
Note :
Above are approximate rates obtained from sources believed to be correct
INFORMATION DETAILS
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Analysis Done by
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PRI |
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Report Prepared
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RATING EXPLANATIONS
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Credit Rating |
Explanation |
Rating Comments |
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A++ |
Minimum Risk |
Business dealings permissible with minimum
risk of default |
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A+ |
Low Risk |
Business dealings permissible with low
risk of default |
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A |
Acceptable Risk |
Business dealings permissible with
moderate risk of default |
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B |
Medium Risk |
Business dealings permissible on a regular
monitoring basis |
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C |
Medium High Risk |
Business dealings permissible preferably
on secured basis |
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D |
High Risk |
Business dealing not recommended or on
secured terms only |
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NB |
New Business |
No recommendation can be done due to
business in infancy stage |
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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:
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Financial
condition covering various ratios
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Company
background and operations size
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Litigation
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Industry
scenario / competitor analysis
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Supplier
/ Customer / Banker review (wherever available)
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