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Global Food Supplier to Profit Enormously While Food Prices Soar

Switzerland-based Glencore—one of the world’s largest suppliers of food and other commodities—could make as much as $11 billion by going public this year. The sale of its shares will add hundreds of people to the international roster of millionaires and billionaires while rising food prices continue to gouge the world’s poor.

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