Commodities

Businesses around the world are forced to hedge their exposure to incredible volatility in the price and availability of a number of key commodities. We help clients overcome these critical challenges by providing them with a single point of source for a wide range of commodities. Whether you are in the luxury watch business or the food industry, we help to ensure that these key logistical and profit risk points are well managed at all times. We have chosen to specialise in metals and agricultural (soft) commodities because we have a significant competitive advantage in these sectors. This is as a result of our often superior market information and an ability to give our clients access to economies of scale which they would be unable to achieve on their own.

Metals

Metals are a highly volatile group of commodities and many of our clients have to constantly hedge against volatile prices, as well as experiencing regular supply disruptions. If the lifeblood of your business is based around having a secure and stable source of metals then we can help.

Many of our customers have experienced the nightmare scenario of having plenty of demand for their products but no raw materials to service that demand. Regular supply chain shortfalls are the biggest frustration experienced by our clients prior to working with us. We make sure that supply terms are met on time and that the highest quality control standards are met at source.

We also help iron out exposure to volatile prices with up to date and independent assessments of factory outputs and inventories in the key sectors in which we operate. Our global network also allows our customers to take advantage of huge economies of scale advantages, which would be simply unavailable to them under normal circumstances.

Soft Commodities

We all know the world population is expanding at a phenomenal rate. We also know that the newly developed countries of Asia in particular, are seeing soaring demand for a wide range of foodstuffs. These are the key drivers of global demand for soft or agricultural commodities in the coming decades.

Combine this with increased costs for fuel and fertiliser, an ageing farmer population, ever increasing pressure on land resources, constantly changing climate and the supply side pressures in this sector become considerable. All of this makes the market for softs a particularly complex and challenging one in the short, medium and long term.

We offer our clients a partner who understands the unique challenges of this sector and who can help them maximize the competitive advantages to be had.

Oil

Our oil trading team focuses primarily on crude, M100 and D2. We work closely with refineries around the world to secure long-term strategic allocations of oil on behalf of our clients across the world. Give our location, we have a particularly strong focus on the Chinese domestic market and act as a mandate for many large Chinese oil buyers.

We can also assist in the financing of these allocations through our partners both in HK and the U.S. providing clients with a complete solution when it comes to the acquisition of fuel.

Sourcing

Sourcing goods from China has long been a cornerstone of procurement for multinationals worldwide.

Carnegie Stewart occupies a very specific niche where we help companies design and develop new products and then have them developed and manufactured in China.

This way we are able to help our clients not only come up with innovative new products for their home markets but also to manage the production and quality of those products as they are manufactured in China.

Managing the whole supply chain, enables us to make sure that the needs of our clients are always maintained to the highest level.

Our clients include many FTSE 100 companies as well as a number of high growth companies across Europe.

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