Rank: 18 (Previous rank: N.A.)
CEO: Ivan Glasenberg Employees: 57,656 Address: Baarermattstrasse 3 Baar 6340 Country: Switzerland Website: www.glencore.com Swiss commodities company Glencore makes its debut on the Global 500 list this year, just after its $10 billion initial public offering in May. Although Glencore's IPO was the largest so far this year, the stock ultimately didn’t garner as high of a price as many analysts expected. Glencore is a producer and trader of bulk commodities. The company claims it controls much of the traffic of some of the world's most precious raw materials -- it says it’s one of the world's largest suppliers of sugar, exporters of grain, and non-integrated suppliers of oil. As of the end of 2010, the company said it had over $79 billion worth of assets. --S.D. Subscribe to Fortune Magazine Is Glencore International a great company, or what?
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