CARE reaffirms ratings of Duncans Industries’ bank facilities

10 Jan 2014 Evaluate

Credit rating agency, CARE has reaffirmed ‘B-’ rating to Duncans Industries’ long term bank facilities worth Rs 67.20 crore which was reduced from Rs 70.80 and ‘A4’ rating to company’s Short term Bank Facilities worth Rs 15.00 crore.

The aforesaid ratings continue to remain constrained by Duncans Industries (DIL) being registered as a sick industrial company with the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR) under The Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions) Act, 1985 (SICA). The ratings are further constrained by DIL’s negative net-worth, weak financial risk profile, stretched liquidity position, highly labour-intensive nature of the tea industry, underperforming investments in the past and susceptibility to the vagaries of nature.

Duncans Industries (DIL) is currently engaged in tea cultivation and processing. Its 14 tea gardens are spread across the Dooars, Terai and Darjeeling regions of north Bengal, with an annual processing capacity of around 170 lakh kg. DIL produces both crush-tear-curl (CTC) and orthodox varieties of tea. The aggregate area available for cultivation is 9,000 hectares; of which the area under cultivation is 7,400 hectares.

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