The EITI is pleased to welcome Glencore International plc as the latest EITI Supporting Company. Glencore announced that it has become an EITI Supporting Company in its 2010 Sustainability Report, which was issued on 7 September 2011.
Glencore is one of the world’s leading integrated producers and marketers of commodities, headquartered in Baar, Switzerland, and listed on the London and Hong Kong Stock Exchanges. Glencore has worldwide activities in the production, sourcing, processing, refining, transporting, storage, financing and supply of metals and minerals, energy products and agricultural products. Amongst the countries in which Glencore has industrial activities are the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kazakhstan, Peru and Zambia, which are all currently EITI Candidate countries.
With Glencore, there are now 58 oil, gas and mining companies that support the EITI on the international level.