Ranking
Receivables turnover of paper and cardboard manufacturers

Information agency Credinform prepared a ranking of companies in the RF engaged in paper and cardboard manufacturing.

Companies with the highest volume of revenue were selected for this ranking according to the data from the Statistical Register for the latest available period (for the year 2013). The enterprises were ranked by increase in receivables turnover. 

Receivables turnover is short- and long-term receivables for the period to sales revenue. It shows the average number of days required for debt recovery. The less is the number, the faster receivables turns to the monetary funds; therefore liquidity of working capital increases.  

The ratio shows the efficiency of resources usage by taking the time factor into account.

For the most comprehensive and fair view on the company’s financial condition it is necessary to pay attention not only to the average values in the industry, but also to the whole presented set of financial indicators and ratios.

Table 1. Revenue, receivables turnover and solvency index GLOBAS-i® of the largest paper and cardboard manufacturers (top-10)
NameRegionRevenue, mln. RUB,  2013Receivables turnover, daysSolvency index GLOBAS-i®
1 CJS National Enterprise Naberezhnochelninsky paperboard plant S.P.Titov
INN 1650017638
the Republic of Tatarstan 6 256 25 181 the highest
2 LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AMCOR TOBACCO PACKAGING SAINT PETERSBURG
INN 7842315276
Saint-Petersburg 3 524 31 195 the highest
3 Mondi Syktyvkar LPK OJSC
INN 1121003135
the Republic of Komi 31 818 35 241 high
4 LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AMCOR TOBACCO PACKAGING NOVGOROD
INN 5321070760
the Novgorod region 6 004 40 206 high
5 OPEN JOINT-STOCK COMPANY ILIM GROUP
INN 7840346335
Saint-Petersburg 53 940 45 294 high
6 JOINT STOCK COMPANY KAMENSKAYA PAPER AND BOARD FABRIC
INN 6929000141
the Tver region 2 623 49 247 high
7 OPEN JOINT STOCK COMPANY VOLGA
INN 5244009279
the Nizhniy Novgorod region 9 736 54 281 high
8 CLOSED JOINT STOCK COMPANY TETRA PAK
INN 7706017070
Moscow 27 513 65 213 high
9 PUBLIC JOINT STOCK COMPANY SOLIKAMSKBUMPROM
INN 5919470121
the Perm Territory 8 146 97 237 high
10 GOTEK JOINT-STOCK COMPANY
INN 4633000037
the Kursk region 6 416 159 289 high
 
Receivables turnover of the largest paper and cardboard manufacturers (top-10) varies from 25 days (CJS National Enterprise Naberezhnochelninsky paperboard plant S.P.Titov) to 159 days (GOTEK JOINT-STOCK COMPANY). 

paper and cardboard manufacturing

Picture 1. Receivables turnover and revenue of the largest paper and cardboard manufacturers (top-10)


According to the latest published annual financial statements (2013), annual revenues of the top-10 market leaders amounted to 156 bln. RUB, which is higher than for the previous period by 3.9%.
 
Receivables turnover of the revenue leader OPEN JOINT-STOCK COMPANY ILIM GROUP is lower than average and stays within 45 days.
 
Ilim Group is the largest pulp and paper company in Russia.
 
The strategic partner of Ilim Group and the owner of 50% of its shares is International Paper, the world’s largest pulp and paper company.
 
The Company’s business assets located in the Leningrad, Arkhangelsk and Irkutsk Oblasts are the largest mills in the Russian forest products industry accounting for more than 70% of the total pulp production in Russia and 20% of the Russian board production. The total annual pulp and paper production volume of the Company is more than 2.96 million tons.
 
Mondi Syktyvkar LPK OJSC leads Ilim Group in receivables turnover rate (35 days).
 
Mondi Syktyvkar is one of the leaders in pulp and paper industry and the biggest paper producer in Russia. The company’s core business is the production of office and offset paper. It also manufactures newsprint and white-top kraftliner.
 
"Snegurochka" is the leading office paper brand in Russia. It is the first Russian brand of office paper to be FSC certified and is part of Mondi’s Green Range of sustainably produced papers.
All Top-10 companies got high and the highest solvency index. This indicates the ability to timely and fully fulfil the liabilities with minimum default risk.
 
Article
On the potential for use of standard charters by legal entities

As known, the quality of governance is one of the key factors of the successful development of the economy. The priorities of lawmaking in this direction are to limit the influence of the state in the economic sphere, as well as to reduce administrative barriers for business.

The Russian civil legislation, being in the constant development, continues to make tracks in the direction of reducing of the excessive state regulation. Namely in this direction the Federal Law from 29.06.2015 №209-FZ "On making of amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation regarding the introduction of the potential for use of standard charters by legal entities" was adopted and signed by the President of the Russian Federation on the 29th of June 2015. 

The law changes a number of positions of the first chapter of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation and the Federal laws, which relate to the articles of association of legal entities. 

It is possible to summarize 25 amendments to the above mentioned legal documents as follows:

  • standard charter does not provide the data on names, deployment and sizes of the authorized capital of legal entities. The obligation to approve it by founders (participants) of companies falls down, and this function will be assigned to the authorized state body; 
  • notifications about the operation on the basis of the standard charter are to be sent to the authority of state registration of legal entities (in the present time - to the Federal Tax Service of the RF and its local subdivisions) with relevant reflection of this in the Unified state register of legal entities (EGRUL). That is, there will be no need to send the charter to a registering authority, both in electronic and paper form;
  • for limited liability companies it will be retained the right to continue working under individual charters, executed in paper form. Therefore, two types of charters are provided for legal persons: a standard one adopted by the authorized government body and an individual one approved by company’s founders (participants).

The law in whole enters into force from the 29th of December 2015, and on individual items – from the 1st of January 2016. Up to this moment it must be clarified the public bodies, being authorized to approve the standard charters, and the forms of standard charters.

According to experts, such innovations can help reduce the time of registration of legal entities and the costs associated with it, both on the part of entrepreneurs and the state; simplify the procedure of drawing up and legal implementation of charter; reduce the efforts for verifying of the charter documents on the part of contractors. Looking forward, it will certainly have a positive impact on the development of business in general and small business in particular.