Company type | Public |
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LSE: GLEN JSE: GLN FTSE 100 Component | |
Industry | Commodities Metals and Mining |
Founded | 1974 (as Marc Rich + Co AG) |
Founder | Marc Rich |
Headquarters |
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Area served | Worldwide |
Key people |
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Products | Metals and minerals, energy products, agricultural products |
Revenue | US$217.829 billion (2023)[1] |
US$7.317 billion (2023)[1] | |
US$3.210 billion (2023)[1] | |
Total assets | US$123.869 billion (2023)[1] |
Total equity | US$38.237 billion (2023)[1] |
Owner |
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Number of employees | 140,000 (2024)[3] |
Website | glencore |
Glencore plc is a Swiss multinational commodity trading and mining company with headquarters in Baar, Switzerland. Glencore's oil and gas head office is in London and its registered office is in Saint Helier, Jersey. By some estimates, it is the world's largest commodity trader,[4] and among the world's largest companies.[5][6][7]
The company was formed in 1994 by a management buyout of Marc Rich + Co AG (itself founded in 1974).[8] The company merged with Xstrata in 2013, increasing its size substantially.[9] Before that, the company was already one of the world's largest integrated producers and marketers of commodities. It was the largest company in Switzerland as well as the world's largest commodities trading company, with a 2010 global market share of 60% in internationally tradable zinc, 50% in internationally tradable copper, 9% in the internationally tradable grain market and 3% in the internationally tradable oil market.[10][8][11]
Glencore has a number of production facilities all around the world and supplied metals, minerals, crude oil, oil products, coal, natural gas and agricultural products to international customers in the automotive, power generation, steel production and food processing industries.[8] It was listed on the London Stock Exchange in May 2011 and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.[12][13] It had a secondary listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, but had withdrawn from January 2018.[14] Glencore's shares started trading on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in November 2013.[15] The Qatar Investment Authority was its biggest shareholder as of 2016.[16] In March 2022, Qatar's Sovereign Wealth Fund announced it would sell a stake worth £812 million (US$1.1 billion) in Glencore Plc.[17]
The company has been embroiled in numerous controversies and investigations related to environmental damage and corrupt practices. The company has pleaded guilty to multiple instances of bribery and corrupt practices as part of investigations in the United States and the United Kingdom.