About Us

Steel Business Briefing Ltd (SBB) was formed in London in 2001 by a small group of steel professionals. On 1 July 2011 Steel Business Briefing Group, including sister companies The Steel Index and Gas Business Briefing, was purchased by Platts, a division of the McGraw Hill Companies Inc.

SBB's philosophy was, and still is, to serve the global steel business with quality news, prices, research and events.  For more information on Platts and McGraw Hill, please visit their website at: www.platts.com.  

What we do

Our information products bring you closer to steel facts and other steel people, and have become an essential part of our customers' daily business.

SBB publishes in 8 languages: original, independent, global steel news and steel price information. We produce reports, conduct market research, create maps and hold events around the world. SBB's steel news has a circulation of over 100,000.

Key products and services include:

• Daily Steel News - SBB Daily Briefing
• Weekly Steel News - SBB World Steel Review
• Industry Reports including SBB Analytics CHINA, Raw Materials Extra, Global Market Outlook and SBB Insight
• Steel Industry conferences and events
• Executive steel training courses
• Market research
• Steel company directory
• Quarterly forecasts - Iron Ore, Curde Steel, Met Coke and Coal 
• Steel Wall maps
• Prices for over 270 steel products

Who are our Clients?

SBB's services are a reliable source for people doing business throughout the steel industry including senior executives and decision makers at steel mills, traders, distributors & stock holders, service centres, suppliers, end users (eg. Auto and construction), logisitics & shipping companies, banks & finance institutions, associations and government bodies.

What do our Clients say about SBB?

"We are into a business which is higly competitive and price sensitive. We have to ensure that we spend wisely enough, so that our margins are not only protected but also grow annually. Steel not only forms a major portion of our annual spend but also, to a great extent, decides 'functional' and 'aesthetic' attrbutes of the product and so the commodity is strategic in nature. SBB has been instrumental in providing insights into the industry aspects viz. new capacities, demand-supply, price trends (RM, input costs, FG, etc.) new developments; to help base our business strategy. Overall, it has helped us to have an improved view of the global steel industry. "

Mr Ashutosh Bhute, Mahindra Systems and Automotive Technologies Ltd

"SBB does a great job of summarizing all of the key happenings in the China steel market in the newsletters they publish. Not only do they report price changes, but they offer reasons why prices are fluctuating based on past and present trends.

Ms Michelle Ebert, 3M

"I absolutely love steelbb. It has great info. I do not know how you can gather so much info in one day! Really great!"

JW Transport LLC

"SBB is excellent. speedy info, generally accurate and simple easy read style. A great service to the industry "

Mr Bob Brannan; Duferco, UK

"I have found the information of great use in analyzing market trends and forecasting. In fact, since the trial I was able to determine the next price increase in raw material-billets within 5USD of the true cost." CARIBBEAN STEEL MILLS

Contact Us

If you have any questions about your SBB service, you can call one of our local offices - you'll find all our contact details including telephone numbers in Contact Us. We also enjoy meeting our customers regularly so if you are close by one of our offices, please visit us to say hello!

Information about the ownership of SBB may be found by contacting UK Companies House (http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/). Our company registration number is 4199965.