The company, through Laclede Gas Company, distributes natural gas in Missouri to approximately 630,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers.
Another subsidiary, SM&P Utility Resources, Inc., engages in underground locating and marking service businesses.
Laclede Energy Resources, Inc., a subsidiary of the company, engages in nonregulated efforts to market natural gas and related activities primarily to on-system utility transportation customers.
The company was formed in 1857 as The Laclede Gas Light Company and changed its name to Laclede Gas Company in 1950.
Further, it changed its name to The Laclede Group, Inc.
in 2001.
The Laclede Group is based in St.
Louis, Missouri.
