In 1974, commodities trader Marc Rich sets up Marc Rich + Co. AG, an oil trading company that would eventually become Glencore. By trading with controversial regimes such as apartheid-era South Africa and Pinochet-era Chile amongst others, often in breach of...
The Swiss company Südelektra AG, which would later become Xstrata, is founded in 1926. They work on infrastructure and energy projects across Latin America.1 1 “Xstrata at a Glance” (accessed via Internet Archive), Xstrata,...
