Glencore International

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Glencore International (Baar, Switzerland) engaged in the production and trading of metals, minerals, oil, coal, agricultural business. In 2011 revenue amounted to $186 billion, net profit — $4,06 billion, Operates in Ukraine since 1996.** Owns 35 grain silos in 11 provinces of the country with a total capacity of 1.88 million tons, the Odessa plant with a capacity of 730 tons of sunflower seeds per day (600 tons of oil and 500 tons of meal), leases a total of about 80 thousand ha of agricultural land in the Kiev, Vinnytsia, Odesa and Cherkasy oblasts. In Ukraine "daughter" Glencore Xstrata — the company "Serna" – owns 80% of one of the sunflower processing plants with a capacity of 250 thousand tons.