Expana

What Expana does

Expana is a UK-headquartered (Bourne End, Buckinghamshire) private commodity intelligence company and the world's largest IOSCO-assured agrifood Price Reporting Agency. It serves enterprise procurement, supply chain, manufacturing, retail, foodservice, financial services, and consulting functions with independent commodity pricing data, forecasts, cost models, and market analysis covering 900+ commodities across energy, agriculture, metals, proteins, tropical softs, and packaging. The platform aggregates 41,000+ price series and 2,600+ forecast series built on a 200-year combined heritage drawn from wholly-owned legacy brands (Mintec, Urner Barry, Feedinfo, Stratégie Grains) and Tropical Research Services.

The core technology stack combines proprietary IOSCO-compliant price reporting methodology with an AI-powered analytics layer branded as Expana IQ (predictive analytics and knowledge retrieval over the proprietary dataset) and a Data Direct API for programmatic enterprise integration. Supporting features include weather and crop analytics, supply and demand analysis, real-time Expana Alerts, a Negotiation Pack for procurement use cases, and Expana Category Indices. Distribution is delivered through cloud-based self-serve access (app.expanamarkets.com), API integration, and field sales, with a localized interface available in nine European languages.

Revenue is generated primarily through enterprise subscription access to the Expana platform and its legacy brand portfolios, complemented by API usage/access fees, professional services, and event revenue (notably the annual Agrifood Intelligence Summit). Pricing is quote-based and undisclosed publicly, reflecting enterprise contract structures tailored to organization size and data scope. The go-to-market motion is enterprise field sales targeting senior procurement and supply chain leaders, supported by a content and events marketing engine spanning LinkedIn, X, YouTube, webinars, newsletters, and client-story publishing. Named enterprise customers include Tesco, Compass Group, Beumer Group, Unilever, Mars, McDonald's, Kraft Heinz, and Diageo.

Name

Expana

Legal name

Expana

Website

https://expanamarkets.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Expana is the world's largest IOSCO-assured agrifood Price Reporting Agency, providing independent commodity pricing data, forecasts, and analytics across 900+ commodities to enterprise procurement, manufacturing, retail, foodservice, and financial services buyers via subscriptions, APIs, and legacy brand platforms.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Commodity Intelligence and Price Reporting

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

ESG Data, Ratings & Climate Benchmarks (FSAFAIAI)

Keywords

• Commodity price data
• Market intelligence platform
• Price reporting agency
• Agrifood analytics
• Supply chain intelligence

Headquarters

HQ city

Bourne End, Buckinghamshire

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Subscription Access: Recurring subscription-based access to the Expana platform providing comprehensive commodity pricing data, forecasts, analysis, and market intelligence. Pricing appears enterprise-level with customized contracts based on organization size and data requirements.
2. Data Direct API: API-based data delivery providing actionable commodity intelligence integrated directly into customer systems. Revenue generated through API usage and access fees.
3. Legacy Platforms: Access to legacy platforms (Mintec, Urner Barry, Feedinfo, and Stratégie Grains) as part of the integrated product portfolio, likely through tiered subscription models.
4. Professional Services & Events: Revenue from events such as the Agrifood Intelligence Summit and specialized webinars for commodity market professionals.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels15 records

Core offering

Expana operates a commodity intelligence platform that delivers independent pricing data, forecasts, and market analysis across 900+ commodities including agrifood, energy, metals, and proteins. The platform consolidates legacy price reporting brands (Mintec, Urner Barry, Feedinfo, Stratégie Grains, Tropical Research Services) under a unified IOSCO-compliant methodology, enhanced with Expana IQ AI capabilities. Customers access the data via a cloud platform, Data Direct API, and expert analyst commentary.

Product overview

Expana is a commodity intelligence platform providing a unified portfolio of products. The core offering is the Expana platform, which delivers comprehensive commodity pricing data, forecasts, and analytics. Supporting products include the Data Direct API for programmatic access, and legacy platforms (Mintec, Urner Barry, Feedinfo, and Stratégie Grains) acquired over time. Tropical Research Services provides specialized tropical agricultural data. The platform is enhanced with AI-powered Expana IQ for signal detection, and offers features including a commodity price database (900+ commodities, 41,000+ price series), commodity price forecasts, cost models, market analysis, weather and crop analytics, supply/demand analysis, commodity alerts, news, and negotiation tools.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Expana Platform: Comprehensive database of independent commodity pricing data and timely market information
• Data Direct API
• Expana IQ
• Legacy Platforms

Products and services

• Expana Platform Comprehensive commodity intelligence platform delivering independent pricing data, forecasts, market analysis, cost models, and analytics across 900+ commodities. Designed for enterprise procurement, supply chain, and commodity market professionals.
• Data Direct API API-based delivery of actionable commodity data, forecasts, and intelligence integrated directly into customer systems and workflows. Targeted at enterprise customers requiring programmatic access.
• Mintec Legacy commodity price data and market analysis platform retained as part of Expana's integrated portfolio, providing specialized agrifood intelligence.
• Urner Barry Legacy platform providing commodity price reporting for proteins, seafood, and related markets, retained as part of Expana's portfolio.
• Feedinfo Legacy platform providing feed additives market data and analysis, retained within the Expana product portfolio.
• Stratégie Grains Legacy platform providing grains and oilseeds market analysis, retained as part of Expana's portfolio of specialized commodity intelligence products.
• Tropical Research Services Specialized service providing tropical agricultural data and insights covering commodities such as coffee, cocoa, sugar, and tropical fruits.
• Expana IQ AI-powered intelligence layer that surfaces relevant signals from Expana's commodity database to accelerate analysis, forecasting, and decision-making for commodity market professionals.

Quantifiable outcome

• Access to over 2 million commodity data points for comprehensive market analysis
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments10 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability3 records

Feature11 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Rabobank Food & Agribusiness Research: Banking-led research and intelligence provider focused on global food, agribusiness, and soft commodities. Overlaps with Expana's agrifood coverage but is typically distributed as a value-add to banking relationships rather than a standalone subscription platform.

Direct peers

• Argus Media: Independent commodity price reporting agency covering energy, fertilizers, agriculture, and metals with a similar subscription + conferences + consulting model. Directly comparable to Expana in coverage breadth, methodology rigor, and enterprise customer base.
• ICIS (Independent Commodity Intelligence Services): Provides commodity market intelligence, price benchmarks, and analytics across petrochemicals, energy, and fertilizers. Directly comparable subscription product serving similar procurement, supply chain, and trading functions as Expana.
• Fastmarkets: Price reporting agency for forest products, metals, and agricultural commodities. Competes with Expana in adjacent commodity verticals with similar subscription benchmarking and forecasting offerings to enterprise procurement and trading teams.
• CRU Group: Commodity intelligence and price benchmarking across metals, mining, fertilizers, and adjacent agricultural inputs. Overlaps with Expana's metals/industrials and grains/oilseeds coverage and competes for similar enterprise analyst and procurement buyers.
• S&P Global Commodity Insights (Platts): Largest direct competitor in commodity price reporting and benchmarks (Platts) across energy, agriculture, metals, and petrochemicals. Overlaps head-to-head with Expana in agricultural and energy price assessments and competes for the same procurement and trading enterprise buyers.

Others

• Haver Analytics / Emerging Market commodity data vendors: Data aggregator and distributor that consolidates macroeconomic and commodity series for institutional research and trading workflows. Functions as an enabling channel alongside specialist PRAs like Expana rather than a direct competitor.

Broad incumbents

• Wood Mackenzie: Energy and natural resources intelligence provider with deep coverage of commodities, supply chains, and asset-level economics. Comparable in subscription-driven commodity research, though more weighted toward energy and longer-horizon strategic intelligence.
• LSEG (Refinitiv) Commodity Data: Global financial market infrastructure and data provider that distributes commodity benchmarks and analytics through enterprise terminals. Overlaps with Expana at the data layer but competes as part of a much broader multi-asset data suite.
• Bloomberg Terminal / Bloomberg Commodity Data: Broader enterprise data platform that bundles commodity prices, news, and analytics alongside fixed income, equities, and FX. Competes with Expana for trading-desk and treasury budgets via bundled access rather than a specialist agrifood proposition.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/expanamarkets
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCMqI6GO4EjCnIxU0PAJ4hcQ
• Facebookfacebook.com/profile.php?id=100076262400561
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/expanamarkets
• Instagraminstagram.com/expanamarkets
• TikToktiktok.com/@expanamarkets?lang=en
• Pinterestpinterest.co.uk/ExpanaMarkets

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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