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MIRA INFORM REPORT
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Report No. : |
501322 |
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Report Date : |
31.03.2018 |
IDENTIFICATION DETAILS
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Name : |
2B TECHNOLOGIES, INC. |
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Registered Office : |
2100 Central Ave, Suite 105, Boulder, Co 80301 |
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Country : |
United States |
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Financials (as on) : |
2016 (Summarized) |
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Date of Incorporation : |
1998 |
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Legal Form : |
Corporation |
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Line of Business : |
Subject is engaged in development and commercialization of new analytical
instruments for atmospheric and environmental measurements. |
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No. of Employees : |
7 |
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 : |
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
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Country Name |
Previous Rating (30.09.2017) |
Current Rating (31.12.2017) |
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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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STATUTORY
INFORMATION
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Legal Name: |
2B TECHNOLOGIES, INC. |
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Trade Names: |
2B TECHNOLOGIES, INC. |
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ID: |
19981072904 |
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Date Created: |
1998 |
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Date Incorporated: |
04/20/1998 |
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Legal Address: |
2100 Central Ave, Suite 105, Boulder, CO 80301,
United States |
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Operative Address: |
2100 Central Ave, Suite 105, Boulder, CO 80301, United States |
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Telephone: |
1-303-273-0559 |
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Fax: |
1-303-277-1812 |
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Legal Form: |
CORPORATION |
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Email: |
sales@twobtech.com |
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Registered in: |
COLORADO |
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Website: |
www.twobtech.com |
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Contact: |
John Birks - President |
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Staff: |
7 |
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Activity: |
NAICS 1: Analytical Laboratory Instrument
Manufacturing NAICS 2: Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing
SIC 1: Colorimeters (Optical Instruments) SIC 2: Surgical And Medical Instruments |
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Banks: |
BANK OF AMERICA JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NA |
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History: |
2b Technologies Inc was founded in 1998. |
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PRINCIPAL
ACTIVITY
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2B Technologies is dedicated to the development and
commercialization of new analytical instruments for atmospheric and
environmental measurements. |
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Products/Services description: |
The company offers miniaturized instruments for
measurements of ozone (O3), nitric oxide (NO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and
other chemical species in air. |
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Brands: |
2B TECHNOLOGIES |
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Sales are: |
Wholesale |
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Clients: |
Sanambiente S.A.S. |
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Suppliers: |
NA |
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Operations area: |
National and International |
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The company exports to |
COLOMBIA |
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The subject employs |
7 employees |
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Payments: |
No Complaints |
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LOCATION
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Headquarters : |
2100 Central Ave, Suite 105, Boulder, CO 80301,
United States |
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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. We were not able to confirm major holders. |
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Management: |
John Birks – President Jessa Ellenburg - Director of Educational Outreach Shannon Rodriguez - Vice President of Finance |
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 |
1.530.000 |
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Cash flow |
Normal |
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LEGAL FILINGS |
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PATENTS |
Nitric oxide detector Patent number: 6100096 Abstract: A detector for detecting and measuring
nitric oxide. Gas-permeable capillary membrane fibers transport a reagent
solution through a plenum containing gases to be measured. Nitric oxide
molecules penetrate the walls of the fibers and undergo a chemiluminescent
reaction within. The fibers and the plenum are translucent, allowing photons
emitted by the chemiluminescent reaction to escape and be detected by a
photodetector. The reagent is buffered at an alkaline pH and mixed with the
enzyme carbonic anhydrase to minimize the measurement errors caused by the
presence of carbon dioxide in the gas to be measured. Type: Grant Filed: March 9, 1998 Date of Patent: August 8, 2000 Assignee: 2B Technologies, Inc. Inventors: Mark J. Bollinger, John W. Birks, Jill K.
Gregory Nitric oxide gas detector Patent number: 6635415 Abstract: The concentration of nitric oxide in a gas
is determined by oxidizing NO to NO2 and then measuring the concentration of
NO2 in the gas, which is proportional to the concentration of NO. Preferably,
gaseous NO2 molecules diffuse through a plurality of capillary membrane
fibers and undergo a chemiluminescent reaction with a reagent flowing within;
the light from the reaction is measured to determine NO2 concentration. In
another aspect of a preferred embodiment, gas is passed through a scrubber
before the concentration of NO2 is measured, in order to substantially remove
carbon dioxide and ambient NO2 from the gas without substantially affecting
the concentration of nitric oxide therein. Type: Grant Filed: April 19, 2000 Date of Patent: October 21, 2003 Assignee: 2B Technologies, Inc. Inventors: Mark J. Bollinger, John W. Birks, Jill K.
Robinson Ozone Monitor with Gas-Phase Ozone Scrubber Publication number: 20100027016 Abstract: The present invention provides a means of
greatly reducing or eliminating the interferences of UV-absorbing compounds,
mercury, water vapor and particulates in the UV absorbance measurement of
ozone by replacing the internal solid-phase ozone scrubber with a gas-phase
scrubber. Reagent gases well suited as a gas-phase scrubber of ozone include
nitric oxide and bromine atoms. Nitric oxide may be supplied by a gas
cylinder or by photolysis of either N2O or NO2, both in the absence of
oxygen. Bromine atoms are conveniently generated by photolysis of Br2
supplied by a permeation tube. Bromine atoms have the advantage of having a
faster reaction with ozone than NO and of being catalytic in their reaction.
Nitric oxide has the advantage of being generally less reactive with other
components of air. Type: Application Filed: July 30, 2009 Publication date: February 4, 2010 Applicant: 2B TECHNOLOGIES, INC Inventors: John W. Birks, Peter C. Andersen, Craig
J. Williford |
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GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS |
Government Contractor: 2B TECHNOLOGIES INC Name & Address: 2100 CENTRAL AVE STE 105
BOULDER, CO 80301-2887 Number of Defense Contracts Awarded: 1 Dollar Amount of Defense Contracts Awarded:$5,180 |
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CASES |
No records found. |
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TRADEMARKS |
No records found. |
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RENEWAL HISTORY |
Event : Amended and Restated Articles of
Incorporation Date Filed: 02/15/2011 Date Posted: 02/15/2011 EffectiveDate: 02/15/2011 08:17 AM Document #:20111090603 Event : Articles of Incorporation Date Filed: 04/20/1998 Date Posted: 04/20/1998 EffectiveDate: 04/20/1998 12:00 AM Document #:19981072904 Comment : 2B TECHNOLOGIES, INC Event : Articles of Reinstatement Date Filed: 06/01/2005 Date Posted: 06/01/2005 EffectiveDate: 06/01/2005 12:12 PM Document #:20051218242 Event : Change in Status Date Filed: 09/01/2006 Date Posted: 09/01/2006 EffectiveDate: 09/01/2006 01:48 AM Comment : Failure to file annual report Event : Change in Status Date Filed: 12/01/2006 Date Posted: 12/01/2006 EffectiveDate: 12/01/2006 02:00 AM Comment : Failure to file annual report |
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UCC |
Document #:20062093641 Date: 09/26/2006 Debtor: 2B TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Secured Party: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NA Type: UCC financing statement Record #: 20062093641 Lapse Date: 09/26/2021 |
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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 1998, 2b Technologies Inc is a small
organization in the analytical instrument manufacturers industry located in
Boulder, CO. It has 7 full time employees and generates an
estimated $1.5 million in annual revenue. The company operates nationally and internationally,
mainly exporting to Colombia. It is ACTIVE in business with no negative
records. |
RISK
INFORMATION
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DEBTS |
Controlled |
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PAYMENTS |
No Complaints |
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CASH FLOW |
Normal |
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STATUS |
Active |
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INTERVIEW
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NAME |
Craig |
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POSITION |
Operations |
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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 President. |
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
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Currency |
Unit
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Indian Rupees |
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US Dollar |
1 |
INR 65.04 |
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INR 92.28 |
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Euro |
1 |
INR 80.62 |
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USD |
1 |
INR 65.08 |
Note :
Above are approximate rates obtained from sources believed to be correct
INFORMATION DETAILS
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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
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Company
background and operations size
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Litigation
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Industry
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