MIRA INFORM REPORT

Report No. :	507485
Report Date :	04.05.2018

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

Name :	CARL ZEISS MICROSCOPY GMBH

Registered Office :	Carl-Zeiss-Promenade 10 D 07745 Jena

Country :	Germany

Date of Incorporation :	26.07.2005

Com. Reg. No.:	HRB 210536

Legal Form :	Private limited company

Line of Business :	· Manufacture of optical instruments and photographic equipment · Other software development activities · Other service activities n. e. c.

No. of Employees :	290

RATING & COMMENTS

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

MIRA’s Rating :

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

Status :	Good

Payment Behaviour :	Regular

Litigation :	Clear

NOTES :

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ECGC Country Risk Classification List

Country Name

Previous Rating

(30.09.2017)

Current Rating

(31.12.2017)

Germany

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

GERMANY - ECONOMIC OVERVIEW

The German economy - the fifth largest economy in the world in PPP terms and Europe's largest - is a leading exporter of machinery, vehicles, chemicals, and household equipment and benefits from a highly skilled labor force. Like its Western European neighbors, Germany faces significant demographic challenges to sustained long-term growth. Low fertility rates and a large increase in net immigration are increasing pressure on the country's social welfare system and necessitate structural reforms.

Reforms launched by the government of Chancellor Gerhard SCHROEDER (1998-2005), deemed necessary to address chronically high unemployment and low average growth, contributed to strong economic growth and falling unemployment. These advances, as well as a government subsidized, reduced working hour scheme, help explain the relatively modest increase in unemployment during the 2008-09 recession - the deepest since World War II. The German Government introduced a minimum wage in 2015 that increased to $9.79 (8.84 euros) in January 2017.

Stimulus and stabilization efforts initiated in 2008 and 2009 and tax cuts introduced in Chancellor Angela MERKEL's second term increased Germany's total budget deficit - including federal, state, and municipal - to 4.1% in 2010, but slower spending and higher tax revenues reduced the deficit to 0.8% in 2011 and in 2017 Germany reached a budget surplus of 0.7%. A constitutional amendment approved in 2009 limits the federal government to structural deficits of no more than 0.35% of GDP per annum as of 2016, though the target was already reached in 2012.

The German economy suffers from low levels of investment, and a government plan to invest 15 billion euros during 2016-18, largely in infrastructure, is intended to spur needed private investment. Following the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, Chancellor Angela MERKEL announced in May 2011 that eight of the country's 17 nuclear reactors would be shut down immediately and the remaining plants would close by 2022. Germany plans to replace nuclear power largely with renewable energy, which accounted for 29.5% of gross electricity consumption in 2016, up from 9% in 2000. Before the shutdown of the eight reactors, Germany relied on nuclear power for 23% of its electricity generating capacity and 46% of its base-load electricity production. Domestic consumption, investment, and exports are likely to drive German GDP growth in 2018, and the country’s budget and trade surpluses are likely to remain high.

Source : CIA

Company name and address

Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH

Carl-Zeiss-Promenade 10

D 07745 Jena

Telephone:03641/643161

Telefax: 03641/643439

Homepage: www.zeiss.com/microscopy

E-mail: microscopy@zeiss.com

Company Status

Active

VAT no.

DE814503774

Company summery

LEGAL FORM Private limited company

Date of foundation: 07.2005

Shareholders'

agreement: 26.07.2005

Registered on: 08.09.2005

Commercial Register: Local court 07745 Jena

under: HRB 210536

Share capital: EUR 400,000.00

Shareholder:

Carl Zeiss AG

Carl-Zeiss-Str. 22

D 73447 Oberkochen

Legal form: Public limited company

Share capital: EUR 120,000,000.00

Share: EUR 400,000.00

Registered on: 22.03.2004

Reg. data: 89073 Ulm, HRB 501555

Control and profit transfer agreement

Manager:

Justus Felix Wehmer

D 20095 Hamburg

born: 02.03.1965

Manager:

Markus Weber

D 89518 Heidenheim

born: 28.01.1973