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HOW A COMBINED COMPANY WOULD LOOK
EMPLOYEES 127,500
GLENCORE 57,500
XSTRATA 70,000
REVENUE $175.5BN
GLENCORE $145BN*
XSTRATA $30.5BN*
OPERATING PROFIT $14.2BN
GLENCORE $3.8BN*
XSTRATA $10.4BN*
GLENCORE
The world’s largest commodities trading house also extracts, ships and refines raw materials in three groups – metals and minerals; energy products; and agricultural products.
XSTRATA
One of the world’s biggest mining groups, whose assets include copper mines in South America, zinc in Spain, and ferrochrome and vanadium in Australia and South Africa.