Rating Rationale
February 18, 2020 | Mumbai
Capricorn Food Products India Limited
Ratings Reaffirmed
 
Rating Action
Total Bank Loan Facilities Rated Rs.330.81 Crore (Reduced from Rs.405 Crore)
Long Term Rating CRISIL BBB/Negative (Reaffirmed)
Short Term Rating CRISIL A3+ (Reaffirmed)
1 crore = 10 million
Refer to annexure for Details of Instruments & Bank Facilities
Detailed Rationale

CRISIL has reaffirmed its 'CRISIL BBB/Negative/CRISIL A3+' ratings on the bank facilities of Capricorn Food Products India Limited (CFP; part of the CFP group). CRISIL has also withdrawn the rating on its proposed long term loan facility as the company is not expected to avail new loan. The withdrawal is in line with CRISIL's policy.

CRISIL has earlier removed the ratings on the bank facilities of CFP from 'Rating watch with negative implications', and downgraded the ratings to 'CRISIL BBB/CRISIL A3+' while assigning a 'Negative' outlook to the long-term rating vide rationale dated 04th February 2020.
 
The downgrade reflected CRISIL's expectation that the credit risk profile of the CFP group will remain constrained over the medium term driven by reduction in sales and increase in working capital requirement. Revenue declined to Rs 347 crore in fiscal 2019 from Rs 474 crore in the previous fiscal due to lower mango pulp sales, leading to higher inventory. Inventory increased to 370 days as on March 31, 2019, from 190 days a year earlier, but is expected to moderate in fiscal 2020; this will remain a key monitorable. Large working capital requirement combined with stagnant growth is expected to result in weakening of the financial risk profile.
 
The ratings continue to reflect the extensive experience of the promoters in the fruit pulp processing business, an established market position, a healthy customer base, and a comfortable financial risk profile. These strengths are partially offset by large working capital requirement, and exposure to intense competition and to product concentration risk.

Analytical Approach

For arriving at the ratings, CRISIL has combined the business and financial risk profiles of CFP and its fully owned subsidiaries, GAPL and Fresco Juices Pvt Ltd (FJPL). That's because all the three companies, collectively referred to as the CFP group, are in similar lines of business and have significant fungible funds.

Please refer Annexure - List of entities consolidated, which captures the list of entities considered and their analytical treatment of consolidation.

Key Rating Drivers & Detailed Description
Strengths: 
* Extensive industry experience of the promoters and an established market position:  The group is one of the leading players in the Indian fruit pulp industry and has an established market position in the domestic and international fruit pulp markets. It has several reputed customers.
 
* Moderate capital structure: The networth was healthy at Rs 244.57 crore, and the gearing moderate at about 1.24 times, as on March 31, 2019. Debt protection metrics are average, with interest coverage ratio of 2.15 times in fiscal 2019.
 
Weaknesses:
* Working capital-intensive operations: Inventory requirement is high owing to the seasonal nature of mangoes. Substantial reduction in revenue led to increase in inventory to 370 days as on March 31, 2019, from 190 days a year earlier.
 
* Exposure to intense competition and to product concentration risks
The group faces intense competition in the food processing industry due to the presence of several smaller players especially in tomatoes and gherkins in Tamil Nadu. Furthermore, though it currently processes mangoes, papayas, guavas, water melons, and tomatoes, mango processing contributes to more than 60% of the total revenue. While the group is taking steps to increase processing of tomatoes, and introduce dehydrated foods and other products, mango will continue to contribute a large part of the revenue over the medium term. High dependence on mango coupled with the agro-commodity nature of the business heightens the exposure to variation in mango yields.
Liquidity Adequate

Cash accrual is sufficient, bank limit utilisation is moderately high, and the cash and bank balance is moderate. The average month-end bank limit utilisation was about 90% for the 12 months through December 2019. Further, cash accrual is expected to be healthy at Rs 30-35 crore as against repayment obligation of Rs 8-10 crore, per fiscal over the medium term

Outlook: Negative

CRISIL believes the CFP group's credit risk profile will remain constrained by high inventory and subdued orders from existing customers.
 
Rating sensitive factors:
Upward factors
* Revenue of more than Rs 450 crore per fiscal and gross current assets (GCAs) of less than 270 days
* Improvement in the financial risk profile, particularly debt protection metrics
 
Downward factors
* Revenue of less than Rs 360 crore per fiscal with GCAs of more than 300 days
* Weakening of the financial risk profile.

About the Group

Established in 1998, CFP processes fruits and vegetables. Its operations are managed by Mr Rahoul Jain and Mrs Shuchi Jain.
 
GAPL also processes fruits and vegetables. Its manufacturing facility is in Nasik, Maharashtra.
 
FJPL manufactures fruit juices.

Key Financial Indicators
Particulars Unit 2019 2018
Revenue Rs crore 347.02 474.77
Profit after tax (PAT) Rs crore 10.87 32.30
PAT margin % 3.1 6.8
Adjusted debt/adjusted networth Times 1.24 1.09
Interest coverage Times 2.15 3.93
Note on complexity levels of the rated instrument:
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Annexure - Details of Instrument(s)
ISIN Name of Instrument Date of Allotment Coupon Rate (%) Maturity Date Issue Size (Rs Crore) Rating Assigned with Outlook
NA Bank Guarantee NA NA NA 20 CRISIL A3+
NA Cash Credit NA NA NA 144 CRISIL BBB/Negative
NA Export Packing Credit NA NA NA 90 CRISIL BBB/Negative
NA Foreign Bill Discounting NA NA NA 20 CRISIL BBB/Negative
NA Letter of Credit NA NA NA 25 CRISIL A3+
NA Proposed Long Term Bank Loan Facility NA NA NA 74.19 Withdrawn
NA Proposed Short Term Bank Loan Facility NA NA NA 15 CRISIL A3+
NA Term Loan NA NA Jun-2023 10.81 CRISIL BBB/Negative
NA Working Capital Demand Loan NA NA NA 6 CRISIL BBB/Negative
 
Annexure - List of entities consolidated
Names of Entities Consolidated Extent of Consolidation Rationale for Consolidation
Capricorn Food Products India Limited (CFP) Full Parent of consolidated entities
Gonglu Agro Pvt Ltd (GAPL) Full Subsidiary of  CFP
Fresco Juices Pvt Ltd (FJPL) Full Subsidiary of  CFP
Annexure - Rating History for last 3 Years
  Current 2020 (History) 2019  2018  2017  Start of 2017
Instrument Type Outstanding Amount Rating Date Rating Date Rating Date Rating Date Rating Rating
Fund-based Bank Facilities  LT/ST  285.81  CRISIL BBB/Negative/ CRISIL A3+  04-02-20  CRISIL BBB/Negative/ CRISIL A3+  07-11-19  CRISIL BBB+/Watch Negative  24-12-18  CRISIL BBB+/Stable  04-09-17  CRISIL BBB+/Stable  CRISIL BBB+/Stable/ CRISIL A2 
Non Fund-based Bank Facilities  LT/ST  45.00  CRISIL A3+  04-02-20  CRISIL A3+  07-11-19  CRISIL A2/Watch Negative  24-12-18  CRISIL A2  04-09-17  CRISIL A2  CRISIL A2 
All amounts are in Rs.Cr.
Annexure - Details of various bank facilities
Current facilities Previous facilities
Facility Amount (Rs.Crore) Rating Facility Amount (Rs.Crore) Rating
Bank Guarantee 20 CRISIL A3+ Bank Guarantee 20 CRISIL A3+
Cash Credit 144 CRISIL BBB/Negative Cash Credit 144 CRISIL BBB/Negative
Export Packing Credit 90 CRISIL BBB/Negative Export Packing Credit 90 CRISIL BBB/Negative
Foreign Bill Discounting 20 CRISIL BBB/Negative Foreign Bill Discounting 20 CRISIL BBB/Negative
Letter of Credit 25 CRISIL A3+ Letter of Credit 25 CRISIL A3+
Proposed Long Term Bank Loan Facility 74.19 Withdrawn Proposed Long Term Bank Loan Facility 74.19 CRISIL BBB/Negative
Proposed Short Term Bank Loan Facility 15 CRISIL A3+ Proposed Short Term Bank Loan Facility 15 CRISIL A3+
Term Loan 10.81 CRISIL BBB/Negative Term Loan 10.81 CRISIL BBB/Negative
Working Capital Demand Loan 6 CRISIL BBB/Negative Working Capital Demand Loan 6 CRISIL BBB/Negative
Total 405 -- Total 405 --
Links to related criteria
CRISILs Approach to Financial Ratios
CRISILs Bank Loan Ratings - process, scale and default recognition
Rating criteria for manufaturing and service sector companies
CRISILs Criteria for Consolidation
CRISILs Criteria for rating short term debt

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