Since Imarex was founded in 2000, the Group has grown from being a small Norwegian based freight derivatives market, to being a large diversified group acting as intermediary and clearer for physical and derivative commodity transactions worth over USD 200 billion per year. This makes Imarex one of the fastest growing commodity markets in the world. Our ambition for the Group is to innovate new commodity markets and to bring new opportunities to our members and clients in the trading community.

Our strategy is to grow Imarex organically and vertically in those markets where we are already established and enter new markets through new product development and acquisitions. We grow organically by making sure we provide the best markets, clearing, market analysis, information services and training to existing and new customers. By applying these tactics we have managed to build leading positions in our core markets - shipping and energy.

Our hybrid exchange model offering voice assisted screen trading and straight through processing of clearing & settlement has enabled Imarex to build a strong market position and a solid business model for further growth. The Group has and will aggressively continue to, enter into new market segments by way of mergers and acquisitions, and then repeating the organic and vertical expansion to achieve market leadership in those segments.

Last year Imarex bought the London based Spectron Group Limited, which operates one of the world’s largest market places for energy, substantially increasing the footprint of the Imarex Group in the commodity markets. At present the ImarexGroup serves its members and clients through nearly 300 staff in 12 cities around the world. Our exchange and clearing members include all the relevant commodity trading houses as well as the world’s largest ship owners, oil refiners, banks and financial investment institutions.

Most of the markets in which we now hold leading market shares are considered high-margin sectors of the commodity industry. Our focus going forward is to organically grow each business and seek further growth through acquisitions in new high-margin market segments to create the leading specialist commodity market place for our customers.