About Us
Sharps Pixley are London-based bullion brokers who sell retail physical
precious metal coins and bars to UK clients. In short, we supply "gold
you can hold" – in all manners of speaking.
Sharps Pixley was
originally founded through the merger of two bullion businesses whose
origins date back to 1778. Sharps Pixley was formerly a central player
in the London gold and silver bullion broking community as an original
gold fixing member and chairman of the silver fix. The company name
expired in 1995 but was revived in 2010 followed by the purchased of the
company trade mark from the previous owners of the business, Deutsche
Bank, thereby providing a link with the original firm.
Today
Sharps Pixley combines three things. Leading-edge web technology to
provide an informative transactional platform from which users can both
research the bullion market and then if they chose, purchase gold. The
business also combines innovative logistical and inventory management
techniques to deliver those products efficiently and at the lowest
available cost; and lastly the company seeks to leverage both the trust
and heritage of a former business bearing its name and to remain
faithful to the high principles under which that company operated.
Beyond
its web presence Sharps Pixley also seeks to develop a host of new
sales channels through which to promote gold sales to its clients,
thereby making it more accessible. We refer to this as Operation Martini
– any time, any place, anywhere. Although today Sharps Pixley is a
modest-sized entity, it has the stated ambition to grow to become the
largest single provider of retail physical bullion products in the UK.
Sharps
Pixley Ltd is owned by Ross Norman. Ross started his business career
with entrepreneur and maverick Sir Clive Sinclair of Sinclair Research
in Cambridge, before joining Johnson Matthey as Gold Refining Manager
(then the worlds largest gold refiners), then as a gold trader at NM
Rothschild & Sons (then the Chairman of the London Gold Fixing) and
later Credit Suisse, where he was a Senior Dealer in physical bullion
trading.
Ten years ago Ross co-founded FastMarkets Ltd which
operates the websites TheBullionDesk.com, BaseMetals.com and
MinorMetals.com. Ross has become established as one of the most
consistently accurate forecasters in the bullion market and is
frequently sought for his commentary and analysis of the metals markets
from the leading newswires, TV stations and newspapers,