A Member of the Metallicarum International Alliance
Letter to Customers, 3rd February 2012
Dear BME customer,
As part of a cooperation agreement, Bloomsbury Minerals Economics (BME) has increased its share holding in IntierraRMG and has transferred to that company the title to its two periodicals, the Copper Briefing Service and the Quarterly Report on Copper. BME has however retained ownership of its mathematical price modelling unit - BME Price Models Limited - which will cooperate closely with IntierraRMG on the price behaviour of copper, nickel and other metals.
Your copper periodicals subscriptions will continue unaffected. Paul Dewison and Robert Goldstein will join IntierraRMG. Paul (a former senior analyst at CRU then Brook Hunt and former Managing Director of Metalica Limited) will take with him knowledge and expertise in copper and other base metal market analysis and consulting, in particular downstream fabricating and scrap business. This will be complemented by the exploration expertise of Intierra and the plant-by-plant production data of RMG, bringing further insights to the editorial team. Robert (a former Managing Director of CRU) will also bring formidable business experience and customer knowledge to the new media arm of IntierraRMG.
Subscribers to the Copper Briefing and Quarterly Report will see no loss of service, but will instead find that they now have closer links to the research and sales professionals of the much larger IntierraRMG group around the world, with its offices in Perth, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, Stockholm and London. With a much larger team now available, customers will be able to tap broader expertise for a wide range of consultancy assignments on relatively short lead times.
With Adam Sotowicz and me remaining at BME Price Models, the latter will continue at the forefront of research and modelling of metals price behaviour at the interface of the 'new' investment world and the 'old' world of industrial raw materials.
BME has great confidence in IntierraRMG's future as the most dynamic company in the field of data, analysis and consulting on ores, scrap, metals, exploration, mining, smelting, refining and fabricating and is pleased at the prospect of them being able to provide you with enhanced copper market publications.
Our website will be updated next week to accommodate these developments.
Yours sincerely,
Peter Hollands
Managing Director
BME Products and Services
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