Xstrata
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Xstrata plc was an Anglo-Swiss multinational mining company headquartered in Zug, Switzerland and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom. It was a major producer of coal (and the world's largest exporter of thermal coal), copper, nickel, primary vanadium and zinc and the world's largest producer of ferrochrome. It had operations in 19 countries across Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, North America and South America.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Xstrata plc
- Company.logo
- Xstrata.svg
- Company.logo_size
- 150px
- Company.type
- Private company
- Company.fate
- Reversed IPO – Private Company
- Company.foundation
- 1926
- Company.location
- Zug, Switzerland(Head office)London, England (Registered office)
- Company.key_people
- Sir John Bond (Chairman) Mick Davis (CEO to 2014)
- Company.industry
- Metals, Mining and other Investments
- Company.products
- Precious Metals, Metals, Non Metals, and Special Ore Materials
- Company.revenue
- $31.618 billion (2012)
- Company.operating_income
- $4.790 billion (2012)
- Company.net_income
- $1.180 billion (2012)
- Company.num_employees
- 35,000 (2018)
- Company.homepage
- www.xstrata.com.mx
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company
- Founded
- 1926
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Status
- Active
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Wikidata facts
- Employees
- 38561
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- inception
- 1926-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2013-00-00
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Article
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Operations
- Bulga Coal
- Mangoola coal mine controversy
- George Fisher mine
- Relationship with Glencore
- The Xstrata name
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Xstrata plc was an Anglo-Swiss multinational mining company headquartered in Zug, Switzerland and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom. It was a major producer of coal (and the world's largest exporter of thermal coal), copper, nickel, primary vanadium and zinc and the world's largest producer of ferrochrome. It had operations in 19 countries across Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, North America and South America.
Xstrata had a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It had a market capitalisation of approximately £29 billion as of 23 December 2011, making it the 16th-largest company on the London Stock Exchange. It had a secondary listing on the SIX Swiss Exchange. In the 2013 Forbes Global 2000, Xstrata was ranked as the 202nd largest public company in the world.