Ineos

Ineos UK is a chemicals company and the owner of the Grangemouth refinery. It is part of the Ineos Group, a privately owned multinational chemicals company headquartered in Rolle, Switzerland, with its registered office in Lyndhurst, United Kingdom. Ineos Group is the fourth largest chemicals company in the world measured by revenues (after BASF, Dow Chemical and LyondellBasell), and the largest privately owned company in the UK. Jim Ratcliffe is the founder, Chairman and main shareholder.

Sometimes described as 'the biggest company you've never heard of', Ineos has more than 80 separate firms registered at the UK Companies House.

Affiliations

• All Party Parliamentary Group on Unconventional Oil and Gas - Ineos is an associate member and contributed £10,000, which was registered June 2013
• Parliamentary and Scientific Committee (an Associate Parliamentary Group)

People

• Tom Crotty - Ineos external affairs director
• Senior account director Andrew McLachlan

Lobbying and PR firms

• Media Zoo’s UK media relations and reputation management brief includes communicating with trade organisations and governments in the US and Germany, which are key markets for Ineos.
• Edelman

Resources

• Letter regarding FOI request on INEOS introductory meeting with DECC Permanent Secretary June 2013, Office for Unconventional Gas and Oil (OUGO), dated 27 January 2014, acc 5 May 2014

• Letter to the Editor Ineos, tax and China, The Guardian, Monday 21 October 2013 21.00 BST

• Nick Mathiason, Ineos tax deal sparks fury as firm plans move to Switzerland, theguardian.com, Thursday 4 March 2010 21.05 GMT

Contact

Website:

Resources

• US shale gas plan to make Grangemouth profitable, The Telegraph, 2 September 2013