MIRA INFORM REPORT

Report No. :	485930
Report Date :	16.01.2018

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

Name :	COFCO AMERICAS RESOURCES CORP.
Registered Office :	Corporation Service Company, 2711 Centerville Rd Suite 400, Wilmington, New Castle, DE 19808
Country :	United States
Date of Incorporation :	17.06.2011
Legal Form :	Corporation
Line of Business :	Subject is engages in agricultural trading and processing businesses.
No. of Employees :	120

RATING & COMMENTS

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

MIRA’s Rating :

A

Credit Rating	Explanation	Rating Comments
A	Acceptable Risk	Business dealings permissible with moderate risk of default

Status :	Satisfactory
Payment Behaviour :	No Complaints
Litigation :	Clear

NOTES :

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ECGC Country Risk Classification List

Country Name	Previous Rating (30.06.2017)	Current Rating (30.09.2017)
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 $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 has 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%.

Source : CIA

STATUTORY INFORMATION
Legal Name:	COFCO AMERICAS RESOURCES CORP.
Trade Name:	COFCO-AGRI COFFEE COTTON GRAIN
ID:	4998552
Date Created:	2011
Date Incorporated:	6/17/2011
Legal Address:	Corporation Service Company 2711 Centerville Rd Suite 400 WILMINGTON, New Castle, DE 19808
Operative Address:	Four Stamford Plaza 107 Elm Street 11th Floor Stamford CT 06902, USA
Telephone:	(203) 658-2820 / 203-252-5200
Fax:	203-326-8344
Legal Form:	Corporation
Email:	NA
Registered in:	DELAWARE
Website:	www.nobleamericasresources.com / www.cofcoagri.com
Contact:	Yusuf Alireza, CEO
Staff:	120
Industry:	Industries NAICS 1: Commodity Contracts Dealing NAICS 2: Grain and Field Bean Merchant Wholesalers NAICS 3: Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers NAICS 4: Nonchocolate Confectionery Manufacturing SIC 1: Commodity Dealers, Contracts SIC 2: Grain And Field Beans SIC 3: Cocoa SIC 4: Sugar
Banks	Chase Bank
	The company does not disclose its banking details.
HISTORY
	The company was established in 2011.
	Recent name change: On March 3, 2016 Noble Agri Limited (NAL) announced the closing of COFCO’s acquisition of the remaining 49% of NAL’s shares owned by Noble Group Limited (this transaction was earlier announced on December 23, 2015). With this acquisition Noble agri is now fully owned by COFCO International Limited, and with this comes their name change. They are now COFCO Agri.
	Noble Group to Sell Remaining Stake in Noble Agri to Cofco for $750 Million Sale will help Singapore-listed trader to fulfill commitment to raise more than $500 million Updated Dec. 22, 2015 LONDON—Commodities trader Noble Group Ltd. said Tuesday that it has reached an agreement to sell its remaining stake in its agricultural unit to Chinese state-backed grain trader Cofco for $750 million. The sale of its remaining 49% stake, which is subject to shareholder approval, will allow the Singapore-listed trader to fulfill the commitment it made in November to raise more than $500 million after reporting a sharp drop in third-quarter earnings.
PRINCIPAL ACTIVITY
	Cofco Agri engages in agricultural trading and processing businesses.
Products/Services description:	They operate an arsenal of assets to support the sourcing, processing, storage and marketing of a wide spectrum of essential raw materials – from grains, oilseeds and sugar to coffee, and cocoa. They handle every stage of the green coffee bean process, including sourcing, warehousing, quality control, shipment, storage, processing, financing, and marketing. Grain and Field Beans Cocoa Sugar
Brands:	COFCO AGRI
Sales are:	Wholesale
Clients:	It serves customers in Asia, the Middle East, South America, and Europe. Serengeti Trading USA Descafeinadores Mexicanos Sa De Cv Mexico Stc Nj USA CONTILATIN DEL PERU SA Peru
Suppliers:	Commodity Supplies Ag Germany COSTA CAFE COM EXP. E IMP. LTDA Brazil
Operations area:	National and International
The company imports from	BRAZIL
The company exports to	ASIA, MIDDLE EAST, SOUTH AMERICA and EUROPE
The subject employs	120 employees
Payments:	No Complaints
LOCATION
Headquarters :	Four Stamford Plaza 107 Elm Street 11th Floor Stamford CT 06902, USA
Branches:	Sugar Four Stamford Plaza 107 Elm Street 11th Floor Stamford CT 06902, USA Telephone: +1 203-252-5200 Fax: +1 203-363-7939 Cotton 16190 City Walk, Suite 200 Sugar Land, Texas 77479, USA Telephone: +1 832-944-6340 Fax: +1 832-944-6060
Related Companies:	Related companies producing coffee in Indonesia (2003), Brazil (2005), India (2011) and Colombia (2011). Cotton has its Asian hub in Singapore. Additionally, Cotton has offices and representation offices in major producing and consuming markets worldwide including China, Brazil, India, Turkey West Africa, and Indonesia. Sugar production is located in Stamford, Singapore, São Paulo, Geneva, Dubai, Delhi, Bangkok, and Shanghai.
GROUP STRUCTURE AND SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES
Listed at the stock exchange:	NA
Capital:	NA
Shareholders:	This is a private company. COFCO Americas Resources Corp. operates as a subsidiary of: Cofco Agri Limited China
Management:	Yusuf Alireza, CEO William Cronin, President Ernesto Leon Gambetta, Global Head of Coffee Bernardo Rodrigues, Global Head of Sugar Crawford Tatum, Global Head of Cotton
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
	The company does not public its financial statements. Thw following information has been provided by our private sources:
USD 2016
Estimated Net Revenue	12 800 000
Cash Flow	Normal
LEGAL FILINGS
	No legal found.
SUMMARY
	Cofco Americas Resources Corp. is located in Stamford, Connecticut. This organization primarily operates in the Commodity Dealers, Contracts business industry. This organization has been operating for approximately 7 years. Cofco Americas Resources Corp. is estimated to generate $12.8 million in net annual revenues, and employs approximately 120 people at this single location. It is part of COFCO China with locations worldwide, recently formed when China's COFCO paid approxiamtely $1.5 billion for stake in Noble's agribusiness.
RISK INFORMATION
DEBTS	Controlled
PAYMENTS	No Complaints
CASH FLOW	Normal
STATUS	ACTIVE
INTERVIEW
NAME	Diane
POSITION	HR
COMMENTS	She confirmed name, address and group. She refused to confirm any further data.

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

Currency	Unit	Indian Rupees
US Dollar	1	INR 63.41
UK Pound	1	INR 87.17
Euro	1	INR 77.45
US Dollar	1	INR 63.89

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

INFORMATION DETAILS

Analysis Done by :	VIV
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.

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· 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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