Glencore Grain is one of the UK's largest privately owned grain merchants uniquely placed to trade in both the domestic, European and International markets.

Our ambition is to build strong and lasting business relationships with growers and consumers alike, matching supply with demand.

With over 40 years experience in grain trading we have a reputation for fairness and integrity.

Glencore Grain is part of Glencore International AG, one of the world’s largest suppliers of a wide range of commodities and raw materials to industrial consumers. Our role is to be a reliable and competitive partner to businesses in the segments of the market which we serve and to support these businesses as they expand and develop.

Glencore International's customers around the world, in industries such as automotive, power generation, steel production and food processing , rely upon our established global network of operations as a source of Metals and Minerals, Crude Oil and Oil Products, Coal and Agricultural Products. Glencore Grain, as part of this international group offers unrivalled financial strength.

Our reputation for innovation has created many new markets for home grown cereals across the world. We are the exclusive supplier of grains to the UK's first world-class bio-ethanol plant on Teesside. This year we have added a 35,000mt cereal processing plant in Oxfordshire to our portfolio of strategically placed storage and quayside facilities.

And with grainman, our flagship website we have delivered a unique trading tool for arable farmers allowing them to trade online 24 hours a day.

• Trading since 1969
• 50 offices in 40 countries
• 2000 people employed in marketing operations
• 50,000 people employed in industrial operations in 16 plants in 12 countries
• Turnover in 2009 US$106 billion
• Total Assets of US$66 billion