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MIRA INFORM REPORT
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Report No. : |
487848 |
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Report Date : |
29.01.2018 |
IDENTIFICATION DETAILS
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Name : |
STEVEN TRAUTWEIN |
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Registered Office : |
PO Box 2587, Bellaire, TX, 77402-2587, USA |
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Country : |
United States |
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Date of Incorporation : |
1980 |
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Legal Form : |
Sole Propietorship |
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Line of Business : |
Subject is Dedicated to the Manufacturing and Wholesale of Geotechnical
Testing Equipment. |
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No. of Employees : |
5 |
RATING & COMMENTS
(Mira Inform has adopted New Rating mechanism w.e.f. 23rd
January 2017)
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MIRA’s Rating : |
B |
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Credit Rating |
Explanation |
Rating Comments |
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B |
Medium Risk |
Business dealings permissible on a regular
monitoring basis |
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Maximum Credit Limit : |
USD 20 000 |
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Status : |
Moderate |
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Payment Behaviour : |
Slow but correct |
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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
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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: |
STEVEN TRAUTWEIN |
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Trade Names: |
TRAUTWEIN SOIL TESTING EQUIPMENT CO. |
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NA |
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Date Created: |
1980 |
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Date Incorporated: |
1980 |
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Legal Address: |
PO Box 2587, Bellaire, TX, 77402-2587, USA |
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Operative Address: |
PO Box 2587, Bellaire, TX, 77402-2587, USA |
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Telephone: |
(713) 596-9662 |
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Fax: |
+1.7135969492 |
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Legal Form: |
Sole Propietorship |
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Email: |
steve.trautwein@geotac.com sales@geotac.com |
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Registered in: |
TEXAS |
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Website: |
www.geotac.com |
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Contact: |
Stephen Trautwein – General Manager |
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Staff: |
5 |
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Activity: |
NAICS 1: Agents and Managers for Artists, Athletes, Entertainers, and Other
Public Figures SIC 1: Artists' Agents And Brokers |
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Banks: |
BANK OF AMERICA |
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History: |
Trautwein Soil Testing Equipment Co was founded in 1980. |
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PRINCIPAL
ACTIVITY
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Trautwein Soil Testing Equipment Co is dedicated to the manufacturing
and wholesale of Geotechnical Testing Equipment. |
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Products/Services description: |
The company offers: Sigma-1 (an Automated Loading System for Triaxial, Consolidation and
Constant Rate of Strain Testing) DigiFlow (an Automated Flow Pump System for Specimen Saturation,
Consolidation and Permeation) DigiShear (an Automated Shearing System for Direct, Simple and
Residual Shear Testing) TruePath (an Automated System for Ko Consolidation and Stress Path
Testing) GeoJac (digital load actuators) Permeability (Pressure Panel Boards, Permeability Cells, Permometers,
Bladder Accumulators and more.) Resonant Column (Stokoe Resonant Column – Torsional Shear Device.) Cells (Triaxial, Consolidation, CRS, Q-cells.) |
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Brands: |
GEOTAC |
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Sales are: |
Wholesale |
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Clients: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS US DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR – RECLAMATION BUREAU GOLDER ASSOCIATES US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS FUGRO VIRGINIA TECH TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TERRACON |
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Suppliers: |
NA |
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Operations area: |
National |
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The subject employs |
5 employees |
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Payments: |
Slow but correct |
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LOCATION
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Headquarters : |
PO BOX 2587, BELLAIRE, TX, 77402-2587, USA |
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Comments on Address: |
- |
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Branches: |
No other branches were found. |
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Related Companies: |
No related companies were found. |
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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.
This information was confirmed by the company. |
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Management: |
Stephen Trautwein – General Manager Maurice Morvant - Vice President Hardik Mehta - Systems Manager Mario Hernandez – Production Manager Patrick Ndonye - Accounting |
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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 2016 |
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Sales |
800.000 |
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Cash flow |
Normal |
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LEGAL
FILINGS
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PATENTS |
Methods and apparatus for measuring double-interface shear in
geosynthetics and geomaterials Patent number: 5739436 Abstract: The present invention generally provides a double-interface
shear device for measurement of interface strength between geosynthetics and
geomaterials. The device provides for the convenient application of normal
loads, for the measurement of interface strength prior to and following
deformation along the interface, and for the measurement of volume changes of
the specimen normal to the interface. In addition, the invention provides
methods of measuring shear strength of the interface between geoengineering
materials. Type: Grant Filed: July 15, 1996 Date of Patent: April 14, 1998 Inventor: Stephen J. Trautwein |
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GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS |
Government Contractor:TRAUTWEIN SOIL TESTING EQUIPMENT CO Address: 6909 ASHCROFT #104 HOUSTON, TX 77081-5817 Dollar Amount of Defense Contracts Awarded to this Contractor from
2000 to 2016: $1,627,094 Number of Defense Contracts Awarded to this Contractor from 2000 to
2016: 25 Govt Contracts (Defense) - Count/$ Dollar Amount 2016 1/$37,935 2015 3/$196,378 2014 2/$236,983 2013 1/$21,621 2012 0/$0 2011 7/$116,219 2010 1/$-44 2009 2/$232,200 2008 1/$72,263 2007 0/$0 2006 1/$0 2005 2/$272,553 2004 2/$321,183 2003 1/$49,803 2002 1/$70,000 2001 0/$0 2000 0/$0 |
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CASES |
No found. |
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TRADEMARKS |
No records found. |
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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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Founded in 1980, Trautwein Soil Testing Equipment Co is a small
organization in the business services industry located in Houston, TX. It has 5 full time employees and generates an estimated $800,000 USD
in annual revenue. The company operates nationally. It is ACTIVE in business with no
negative records. |
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RISK
INFORMATION
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DEBTS |
Controlled |
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PAYMENTS |
Regular |
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CASH FLOW |
Normal |
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SUGGESTED CREDIT
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USD 20 000 |
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STATUS |
Active |
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INTERVIEW |
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NAME |
Stephen Trautwein |
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POSITION |
General Manager |
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COMMENTS |
He confirmed the name of the company, the legal form, the address of the
headquarters and location, the date of creation of the company and the number
of employees. He was reluctant to provide financial information. |
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
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Currency |
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Indian Rupees |
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US Dollar |
1 |
INR 63.50 |
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1 |
INR 90.92 |
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Euro |
1 |
INR 79.07 |
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US Dollar |
1 |
INR 63.66 |
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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TPT |
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
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