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MIRA INFORM REPORT
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Report No. : |
507482 |
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Report Date : |
08.05.2018 |
IDENTIFICATION DETAILS
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Name : |
ZVI YEHUDA LTD. |
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Registered Office : |
23 Tuval Street,
Diamond Exchange, Noam Building, Ramat Gan 5252382 |
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Country : |
Israel |
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Financials (as on) : |
2017 [Summarized] |
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Date of Incorporation : |
16.07.1956 |
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Legal Form : |
Private Limited Company |
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Line of Business : |
· Traders, importers, processors, importers, exporters and marketers of diamonds. · Also manufacturers, exporters and marketers of diamond processing devices for the industry. |
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No. of Employees : |
10 |
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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Israel |
B1 |
B1 |
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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 |
ISRAEL - ECONOMIC OVERVIEW
Israel has a technologically advanced free market economy. Cut diamonds,
high-technology equipment, and pharmaceuticals are among its leading exports. Its
major imports include crude oil, grains, raw materials, and military equipment.
Israel usually posts sizable trade deficits, which are offset by tourism and
other service exports, as well as significant foreign investment inflows.
Between 2004 and 2013, growth averaged nearly 5% per year, led by
exports. The global financial crisis of 2008-09 spurred a brief recession in
Israel, but the country entered the crisis with solid fundamentals, following
years of prudent fiscal policy and a resilient banking sector. Israel's economy
also weathered the 2011 Arab Spring because strong trade ties outside the
Middle East insulated the economy from spillover effects.
Slowing domestic and international demand and decreased investment
resulting from Israel’s uncertain security situation reduced GDP growth to an
average of roughly 2.8% per year during the period 2014-17. Natural gas fields
discovered off Israel's coast since 2009 have brightened Israel's energy
security outlook. The Tamar and Leviathan fields were some of the world's
largest offshore natural gas finds in the last decade. Political and regulatory
issues have delayed the development of the massive Leviathan field, but
production from Tamar provided a 0.8% boost to Israel's GDP in 2013 and a 0.3%
boost in 2014. One of the most carbon intense OECD countries, Israel generates
about 57% of its power from coal and only 2.6% from renewable sources.
Income inequality and high housing and commodity prices continue to be a
concern for many Israelis. Israel's income inequality and poverty rates are
among the highest of OECD countries, and there is a broad perception among the
public that a small number of "tycoons" have a cartel-like grip over
the major parts of the economy. Government officials have called for reforms to
boost the housing supply and to increase competition in the banking sector to
address these public grievances. Despite calls for reforms, the restricted
housing supply continues to impact younger Israelis seeking to purchase homes.
Tariffs and non-tariff barriers, coupled with guaranteed prices and customs
tariffs for farmers kept food prices high in 2016. Private consumption is
expected to drive growth through 2018, with consumers benefitting from low
inflation and a strong currency.
In the long term, Israel faces structural issues including low labor
participation rates for its fastest growing social segments - the ultraorthodox
and Arab-Israeli communities. Also, Israel's progressive, globally competitive,
knowledge-based technology sector employs only about 8% of the workforce, with
the rest mostly employed in manufacturing and services - sectors which face
downward wage pressures from global competition. Expenditures on educational
institutions remain low compared to most other OECD countries with similar GDP
per capita.
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Source
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Company name & address
ZVI YEHUDA LTD.
(Also known as "YEHUDA DIAMONDS")
Telephone 972 3 575 14 56
Mobile 972 54 397 08 30
Fax 972
3 575 05 97
Email: yehudadr@netvision.net.il
23 Tuval Street
Diamond Exchange,
Noam Building
Ramat Gan 5252382 Israel
HISTORY
& LEGAL FORMATION
A private limited
company, incorporated as per file No. 51-015089-9 on the 16.07.1956.
Originally registered
under the name LEO M
SHARE
CAPITAL
Authorized share
capital NIS 0.05, divided into -
10
ordinary shares of NIS 0.005 each,
fully issued.
(Note: The currency in share capital
was originally in Old Israeli Shekel whose nominal value was 1
thousandth of the current New Israeli Shekel (NIS), converted in 1986).
SHAREHOLDERS
1. Zvi Yehuda, 80%,
2. Mrs. Meira Yehuda, 20%, wife of Zvi.
SOLE
DIRECTOR
Zvi Yehuda,
General Manager, born 1936.
BUSINESS
Traders,
importers, processors, importers, exporters and marketers of diamonds.
Also
manufacturers, exporters and marketers of diamond processing devices for the
industry.
All sales are
export.
Operating from owned
office premises, on an area of 100 sq. meters, in 23 Tuval Street, Diamond
Exchange, Noam Building, Ramat Gan.
Also operating
from large sales office in 5th Ave. New York, U.S.A.
Having 10
employees.
MEANS
Financial
data not forthcoming, however financial status estimated to be solid.
Owned
property in 23 Tuval Street, Diamond Exchange, Noam Building, Ramat Gan (where
subject is operating from) is highly valued.
There
are 2 charges for unlimited amounts registered on the company’s assets, in favor
of Union
Bank of Israel Ltd. Both charges placed
in September 2013.
REVENUES
2016 sales claimed
to be US$ 40,000,000, 100% were for export.
2017 sales claimed
to be US$ 40,000,000, 100% were for export.
BANKERS
Union Bank of Israel
Ltd., Ramat Gan Branch (No. 62), Ramat Gan.
CHARACTER
AND REPUTATION
Nothing
unfavorable learned.
This is a very
long established company in the local diamonds industry and enjoys a good reputation in the branch. Mr. Zvi
Yehuda, besides being a diamond trader, is also an inventor in the diamond
industry field. Among his invetions, he invented a machine that could predict
the color of a diamond before it is cut and a technique that enhances
the clarity of diamonds.
In
December 2006, it was reported on a cooperation between subject and its
developed and OGI SYSTEMS LTD., a
software company.
Export (net) of
polished diamonds from Israel in 2017 totaled US$ 4,478 million, some 4% lower
than in 2016 and 2015 (US$ 4,675 million and US$ 4,996 million, respectively),
and well below 2014 (US$ US$ 6,269 million) and from its peak on the eve of the
crisis in the branch, with export of polished diamonds of US$ 7 billion.
The diamonds
market has been volatile over the last years after experiencing its worst
depression due to the global economic crisis, then recovered in 2010 but fell
again in 2012. According to Israel's Diamond Administration (IDA) at the
Ministry of Economics, profit margins have been decreasing due to smaller gaps
between rough (increasing) and polished (decreasing) diamond prices.
In addition, the
local diamond sector has been negatively affected by other significant factors:
the production of counterfeit diamonds, whose quality keeps improving (harming
the raw diamonds market), the entrance of new rules by the local Tax
Authorities on the Diamond Exchange for enforcing money laundering, and the
"underground bank" affair – as below.
As a result, local
diamond dealers report on difficulties in executing transactions and bad
atmosphere in the branch. Signs of recovery appeared towards the last quarter
of 2016 – mainly due to the growing stability of the market and the industry’s
agreement with the Israel Tax Authority in December, yet the market is still
volatile, as witnessed with the endurance of the depression trend during most
of 2017.
Export (net) of
rough diamonds fell 10.4% in the first 9 months of 2017 (compared to the
parallel period in 2016), reaching US$ 1,796 million (summed up to US$ 2,702
million in all 2016, 23% higher than 2015).
Net imports of
polished diamonds in 2017 totaled US$ 2,700 million, compared to US$ 3,282
million in 2016.
Net import of
rough diamonds summed at US$ 3,246 million in 2016, up 16.7% from 2015, and reached
US$ 2,089 million in the first 9 months of 2017, down 11.6% compared to 2016.
The United States
continued to be Israel’s major market for polished diamonds, accounting for 45%
of the market in the first 9 months 2017 (was 39% in 2016). Hong Kong is 2nd
largest market with 30% of exports (26% in 2016), followed by Switzerland 9%
(7%), Belgium 8% (8%), and the rest of the world account for the remaining 8%
of Israel's polished diamond export.
In 2009, Israel
was ranked as the world’s largest exporter of cut diamonds, followed by India,
Belgium and South Africa.
Local diamond
sector employs some 20,000 persons.
An affair of an
"underground bank" (known as the "Check List" Affair)
shocked the local diamond branch, after in late January 2012 Police raided the
Diamond Exchange (after a long undercover operation), arrested several
individuals for investigation, caught diamonds and various assets worth NIS
millions, and blocked several bank accounts. It is suspected that a group of
people, including diamond dealers, run an illegal bank in the Diamond Exchange
compound for loans, money transfer abroad based on fictitious transactions and
exchange in volume of NIS 1 billion for several years.
The affair led to
several of reported bankruptcies of local diamond firms, a decrease of up to
70% in transactions in 2012, and for a while to paralysis (especially in raw
diamonds purchase) due to uncertainty among local and foreign dealers. Later in
2012 the Police decided to lower the profile of the investigation for a while
(pressure from the diamond branch due to the continuing damage inflicted and
the Government (losing US$ hundred millions from decrease in tax collection),
but resumed investigation in 2013.
In mid-2014, based
on the Police and Tax Authorities recommendations, the State Attorney started
the process of filing indictments against central defendants in the affair,
initially against dealers who provided foreign currency services to the
"bank" (in June 2015 the court made the first conviction in the affair,
sending a foreign currency dealer who pretended also to be a diamond dealer,
for 4 years prison, a fine and confiscation of assets in volume of NIS
millions, part of a plea bargain). Since late 2015 indictments for severe
charges pressed against 11 diamond dealers and their firms for tax felonies
committed and issuing fictitious invoices in volumes of millions US$ (latest
indictments filed by the Tel Aviv District Attorney in August 2016). Their
cases are pending.
SUMMARY
Good for trade
engagements.
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
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Currency |
Unit
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Indian Rupees |
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US Dollar |
1 |
INR 67.11 |
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1 |
INR 90.85 |
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Euro |
1 |
INR 80.12 |
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ILS |
1 |
INR 18.65 |
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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NIY |
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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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Promoters
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Payment
record
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Litigation
against the subject
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Industry
scenario / competitor analysis
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Supplier
/ Customer / Banker review (wherever available)
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