S&P Global Platts expanding India presence; focus on agriculture to go up

S&P Global Platts, the benchmark pricing and analytic company for energy and commodities, is expanding its agro commodity tracking business.

S&P Global Platts, acquired Live Rice Index (LRI), a global provider of information and benchmark price assessments for the rice industry, earlier this year. It now employs over 50 people in that sector, across pricing, news and analytics, including a dedicated agriculture team in Gurugram.

The parent company, S&P Global  already has half its global employees in India. “We have expanded our presence in India because of the increasing opportunity we see here. We are developing capabilities here so that