About Us

Grand Union Co. is a limited liability company registered at 4 Old Park Lane, Mayfair, London W1. Our client meeting rooms are in Old Queen Street, Westminster and we have offices across Great Britain and in Switzerland and the USA.

Our Board is two thirds female, our team is multi-nationality, multi-ethnic and from all corners of The Commonwealth, America and Europe. We are not this way because of tokenism but because Grand Union is a truly equal opportunity company; gender, ethnicity, age, sexuality, disability etc. are irrelevant to us.

Peter Sceats – Founder

Peter Sceats has traded, brokered and consulted across oil, electricity, gas, coal, uranium and water. He has specialised in new markets, business start-ups and the formation of commodity indices.

Beginning with UK agricultural indices, Peter went on to develop the Month Ahead Gas Index of Italy and the API coal indices upon which the international coal market is based, and all European coal power stations and Atlantic Basin coal mines are valued. The coal indices he founded currently benchmark around $300 billion in international trade and are the subject of his podcast “Coal, My Part in its Downfall” published by Anchor.FM.

He set up risk management, trading and sales businesses for Tradition, RWE, BHP Billiton and Kazatomprom. These days he is an Expert Witness in commodities markets litigations and a private commodities market anti-corruption investigator.

Peter was, for five and a half years, “Co-ordinator of European Markets” for one of the world’s largest Energy Advisors procuring electricity and gas for medium and large-scale energy consumers. In 2016 he resigned this contract to set up Grand Union Co. with former Tradition colleagues.

He began his work in the water markets in 2010, inputting a model for a competitive water market to the Water White Paper that is was the basis for the Water Act of 2014, and the world’s first competitive water market that followed.

Memberships & Awards

  • Founder : the API Coal Indices
  • Energy Risk Magazine : Pioneer of Risk
  • GlobalCoal : Risk Manager of the Year
  • Member : Energy Managers Association
  • Member : Energy Managers Association
  • Past Member : Society of Technical Analysts

Pete is (still) a scooter riding Mod, plays the guitar and sings really loudly.

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Penny Winter - Company Secretary

Penny has previously worked in the insurance industry with GE Capital group and Commercial Union as part of the claims department. At Grand Union Co she coordinates the day to day running of the company and additionally holds the title ‘Head of Back Office’

Penny has a Springer Spaniel called Sam who is completely mad!”

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Lord Mackenzie - Non Exec. Director

Lord (Brian) Mackenzie OBE is a British Labour member of the House of Lords. He was appointed OBE in the 1998 New Year’s Honours for services to the Police Service and the Police Superintendents’ Association of England and Wales.

Mackenzie rose through the ranks of the police service, becoming a Superintendent upon secondment to the Home Office and later becoming Chief Superintendent in the Durham Constabulary. A graduate of the FBI Academy at Quantico, Virginia, he was active in the Police Superintendents’ Association and was its President for three years. He was a special adviser on policing issues to the Home Secretary, Jack Straw, from 1997 to 2001. He describes his proudest achievements as his instigation of the idea of a register of sex offenders; the abolition of the right to silence when interviewed regarding serious crime and the change in the law relating to Double Jeopardy.

Lord Mackenzie is University of London alma mater, he held the historical and honorary appointment of Billet Master of the City of Durham between 1989 and 2003. He was made an Honorary Member of the Rotary Club of Chester-le-Street in 2001.

 

We are always looking for people that can add value to our business and for apprentice level staff. Our team members work flexibly and from home if they so choose. Email your CV to us, we respond promptly to every approach.

And we are always looking for referral and cooperation partners. If you or your company share our ethics and have
clients and contacts who would benefit from reducing their business costs, please contact us via email

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Grand Union Co. was founded in 1992 as the consultancy practice Peter Sceats & Associates based 102 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London. The firm initially operated as a vehicle for Peter to share his commodity broking and management consultancy experience. Early clients in the phase were Reuters, Bloomberg, Amerex and the Amsterdam Agricultural Exchange.

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Peter’s then revolutionary idea of a new coal index and an associated forward market in coal derivatives was turned down by the International Petroleum Exchange but later taken up by Tradition Group in 1997 and the API coal index was born. This business plan became the centre of the new international coal market and gave rise to a $300bn forward market. Peter went on to set up energy risk management and trading for RWE Energy, BHPBilliton and Kazatomprom.

Working on the UK Government’s Water White Paper, Peter devised a competitive wholesale water market for Great Britain called the “GB Virtual Water Main”, itself based loosely around the Grand Union Canal. This project gave rise to the consultancy practice’s change of name to Grand Union Water Co. and eventually Grand Union Co. In this phase we were awarded the contract to set up the European office of Tradition’s retail energy broking arm.

Having resigned a five-year Tradition contract, Grand Union was active on the first day of the new water retail market in England, it expanded into energy a year later.

While continuing to be an active broker of water and energy services across UK, Europe and the USA, Grand Union expanded into Lease Car Portfolio Management, FX Payments via collaboration with Western Union Business Solutions and Tax Savings & Representative Office Services.

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Peter Sceats & Associates

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Contracting in Risk, Procurement and Business Development. Expert witness services. Commodity fraud and money laundering investigations. Business relocation services to London UK and Canton Zug Switzerland

stopcor.co.uk

Grand Union is proud to be UK agent for the “Game Changer Anti-Corrosion Device” that attaches to the outside water pipes. Water molecules are agitated by a minute amount of naturally generated electricity (cathodic reaction, no power source needed). The shaken water molecules can no longer “settle” and cause corrosion/limescale; the newly corrosion-resistant water clears the pipes of old limescale too. No effect on water potability. Boilers, heat exchangers, radiators etc. get extended life and so avoiding the carbon emissions associated with replacement kit. ROIs of circa 3 months (depending on setting).

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Western Union Business Solutions

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FX Payments & Payment Solutions

RAF Association & RAF Benevolent Fund

In loving memory of RAF VR George J. Sceats, we contribute to alternately to the RAF Association and the RAF Benevolent Fund. Never so much was owed by so many, to so few…

Stairway to Heaven Memorial Trust

In loving memory of Lillian Sceats (14), Carole Geary (5 months) and the other 171 people who died in the worst civilian disaster of WW2 at Bethnal Green tube station, London.

Foal Farm Animal Rescue Centre

Foal Farm is a registered charity based at Biggin Hill in Kent. Its aim is to take in as many sick, distressed and unwanted animals as possible and restore them to health and happiness.