CRU Group explained

CRU International Ltd.
Foundation:	1969
Num Employees:	300+
Homepage:	crugroup.com

CRU Group is a privately owned business intelligence company. The company focuses on the global mining, metals and fertilizers markets. It provides consultancy, market analysis, business analysis, news, data and conferences services.

Global Coverage

CRU's headquarters are in central London. The company also has regional offices in:

• Beijing – China
• Shanghai - China
• Santiago – Chile
• Mumbai – India
• Singapore
• Pittsburgh – United States
• Sydney – Australia

CRU employs over 260 people from a range of disciplines: economists, management consultants, engineers, metallurgists, geologists, chemists and journalists.

The company was originally named Commodities Research Unit. It was changed to CRU as the company expanded their offering to include more than just research products.

Over the years CRU have made a number of acquisitions including:^[1]

• 1986 – British Sulphur Consultants
• 1996 – Resource Strategies Inc
• 2006 – Commodity Metals Management Company
• 2012 – Ryan's Notes with the acquisition of Nonferrous Notes Organization
• 2012 – Fertecon Research Centre – phosphates and sulphur analysis and consultancy business
• 2023 – Exawatt - energy storage and battery market analysis

Commodities

CRU specializes in producing short-, medium-, and long-term analysis for major commodities including:

• Aluminium
• Alumina
• Bauxite
• Ferromanganese
• Ferrosilicon
• Manganese
  • Silicon Carbon Steel (Billet, Crude, Longs, Pipes and Tubes, Plate, Sheet, Slab)
• Copper
• Ferrochrome
• Lead
• Cobalt
  • Uranium Nickel
    • • • • Nitrogen Ammonia UAN Urea Phosphates Phosphate Rock
        • Potash Gold Silver Stainless Steel Metallurgical Coal
• Thermal (Steaming) Coal
  • Iron Ore Metallics
• Metallurgical Coke
  • • • Sulphur Sulphuric Acid Tin Wire and Cable
• Zinc

References

1. Web site: CRU Our history. www.crugroup.com. en. https://web.archive.org/web/20180325172403/https://www.crugroup.com/about-cru/our-history/. 2018-03-25. live. 2018-03-25.

External links

• Official website