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Glencore: Baar's Commodity Giant and the World's Largest Trader

Headquartered in the quiet Zug municipality of Baar, Glencore is the world's largest commodity trading and mining company — a $217 billion revenue colossus that touches everything from copper mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo to oil cargoes moving through Rotterdam. Its story is inseparable from the history of Switzerland's rise as the world's commodity trading capital.