POSTED BY capSpire ON January 16, 2025 IN Blog, E/CTRM, News
This is a great week for America. Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, the Twinkie snack cake hits store shelves this week across the country after its former parent company Hostess filed for bankruptcy in late 2012. A sweet surprise for Twinkie lovers as the iconic snack cake returns to store shelves this week …
POSTED BY Larry Loocke ON January 16, 2025 IN Blog, E/CTRM, News
This is a great week for America. Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, the Hostess Twinkie hits store shelves this week across the U.S. The return of the iconic yellow cream-filled cakes comes after production was suspended in late 2012 when the former parent company Hostess went bankrupt. Earlier this year, C. Dean Metropoulos …
POSTED BY capSpire ON January 16, 2025 IN Blog, E/CTRM, News
New offering caters to natural gas, NGLs, refined products, coal, crude, metals, agriculture, and freight commodity trading companies. capSpire jump-starts software selection service offering with 20+ year energy industry veteran. capSpire, a global commodity trading consulting and solutions firm, announces a new service offering to assist and guide companies through the process of selecting commodity …
POSTED BY Larry Loocke ON January 16, 2025 IN Blog, E/CTRM, News
Over the past thirty years, globalization surged as a central theme for chemical companies as they increased their international footprint and utilized other regions’ inexpensive labor and raw materials. These companies remained laser-focused on investing in opportunities outside of the United States, and they gradually reduced their footprint within the states. But times are indeed …
POSTED BY capSpire ON January 16, 2025 IN Allegro, Blog, E/CTRM
Firm Jump-starts New Service Offering With Addition of Technical and Functional Experts capSpire, a global consulting and solutions company, announces a new service offering focused on assisting clients with the Allegro commodity trading and risk management (CTRM) software platform. capSpire will leverage their deep domain knowledge around commodity trading and risk solutions to establish a …
POSTED BY capSpire ON January 16, 2025 IN Blog, Digital Transformation, E/CTRM, Gravitate
The world is moving forward at a blinding pace. Technologies are faster, granting us split-second access to data and instant connections. For commodity trading companies, this means the days of faxing invoices and interacting with clients through daylong games of email tag are nearly gone. In our real-time, on-demand world each second matters. Commodity trading companies …
POSTED BY capSpire ON January 16, 2025 IN Blog, E/CTRM
Consumer Packaged Goods Companies and Managing the Margin Squeeze: The last five years have easily been the most dynamic period in well over fifty years across most financial, commodity, and industry sectors. Price extremes and increased volatility coincided with a global slow down, a financial market crash and subsequent recovery to record stock market highs, …
POSTED BY capSpire ON January 16, 2025 IN Blog, E/CTRM, Events, News
Several members of our team will be traveling to sunny San Diego on March 7-10 for the 4th Annual OPIS NGL Summit. The conference is widely known as the premier annual meeting for NGL professionals. Attendees not only network with industry leaders and learn more about the hottest NGL topics from respected experts, they also compete …
POSTED BY capSpire ON January 16, 2025 IN Blog, E/CTRM, News
capSpire Blog — UPS Expanding Fleet of Propane-Powered Trucks in Oklahoma and Louisiana: In a move aimed at improving its bottom line and environmental impact, United Parcel Service (UPS) plans to purchase 1,000 propane-powered package delivery trucks for use in Oklahoma and Louisiana. The trucks will replace older gasoline and diesel fueled vehicles, and plans …
POSTED BY capSpire ON January 16, 2025 IN Blog, E/CTRM
capSpire Blog — The Challenges of Netback Pricing and Today’s Dynamic Market: New pipeline capacity. New extraction plays. Historically low natural gas prices. It can feel like the Wild West as shale gas operations disrupt what has traditionally been a conservative natural gas market. These changes are not only influencing how companies buy, sell, refine …
