CRU Group

CRU International Ltd.

Company type	Private
Industry	Business intelligence
Founded	1969
Headquarters	London, United Kingdom
Number of employees	260+
Website	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, 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
• Pittsburgh – United States
• Sydney – Australia

CRU employs over 260 people: economists, management consultants, engineers, metallurgists, geologists, chemists and journalists.

History

CRU was founded in 1969 by Robert Perlman, and his colleague John Horam.

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:

• 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

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
• Coking Coal
• Iron Ore
• Metallics
• Metallurgical Coke
• Sulphur
• Sulphuric Acid
• Tin
• Wire and Cable
• Zinc

External links

• Official website