Cement News tagged: Corporate
Spain: Portland Valderrivas reduces full-year loss
Cementos Portland Valderrivas reported a EUR52.3m loss in 2014, around 27.3 per cent less than the previous year. The company attributed the improved result to the recovery of the Spanish economy which was reflected in a rise in public tenders, boosting in turn cement consumption. Cementos Portland Valderrivas reported a net operating profit of EUR35.9m, against a net operating loss of EUR...
FECTO reports first-half loss, Pakistan
Pakistan-based cement producer FECTO Cement reported a 10.22 per cent drop in profit for the first six months of the current fiscal to PKR284.6m (US$2.8m). In a communication to the Karachi Stock Exchange, FECTO reported a slight rise in net sales to PKR2.39b from PKR2.32bn a year ago. The company incurred administrative expenses of PKR105.7m and distribution costs of PKR99.5m, compared to PK...
CRH earnings up 11%
CRH’s turnover increased by 4.9 per cent in 2014 to EUR18,912m while the EBITDA advanced by 11.3 per cent to EUR1641m. The trading profit before charging EUR49m of impairments rose by 28.8 per cent to EUR966m. The net interest charge declined by 1.2 per cent to EUR246m and a EUR77m gain on disposals, compared with EUR26m in 2014, led to a pre-tax profit of EUR761m compared with a loss of EUR2...
Cementos Argos’ net profit surges 59%
Colombia’s leading cement producer, Cementos Argos, said net profit jumped 58.8 per cent YoY in 2014, closing the year with record figures. Profit was up to COP291bn (US$145m), compared with the COP183bn registered in 2013. Operating income was up 16.8 per cent to COP5.8trn (US$2.9bn), EBITDA rose up 8.4 per cent to COP1.06trn (US$534m). Cement sales increased by eight per cent YoY to 12....
Caribbean Cement Co returns to pretax profit
Caribbean Cement Company Ltd (CCCL) posted a pretax profits of $255m compared to a loss of $3m the previous year. The company said its performance was assisted by a new record year for sales which climbed from $12bn to $14.3bn. Domestic cement sales volumes only rose by one per cent to 594,164t, while cement exports inched up to 232,765t. Clinker exports, however, quintupled to 155,423t beca...
Holcim Philippines income and revenues rise 13% YoY
Holcim Philippines posted another record performance last year with a double-digit rise in sales on the back of strong and private infrastructure spending. The company said that its net income rose by 13 per cent to PHP5.14bn from the previous year’s PHP4.55bn. Revenues also advanced 13 per cent to PHP32.64bn from last year’s PHP28.89bn, the company said. “The healthy economy continues to...
Kuwait: Hilal Cement books full-year net loss
Kuwaiti cement producer Hilal Cement booked a net loss of KWD374,000 (US$1.3m) in 2014, versus a net profit of KWD518,500 a year earlier, the company said in a bourse statement. The loss per share stood at 5 fils, compared to earnings per share of 7 fils. For the final quarter of 2014, Hilal Cement registered a net loss of KWD92,000, versus a net profit of KWD241,600 in 2013. The company at...
Egypt: ACC secures loan to part-finance expansion
Arabian Cement Company (ACC) said it signed Wednesday an agreement with Saudi British Bank for a SAR400m (US$106.6m) Islamic financing. The loan is to be repaid over a period of five years, including a one-year grace period. The cement firm said it will use the loan to finance part of the first phase of an expansion project to enhance grinding capacity.
TCL reports full-year loss
Trinidad Cement Ltd recorded a loss of TTD211m for last year, as the company wrote down the value of its investment in Arawak Cement Company (Barbados) by TTD153m and in deferred tax assets by TTD86m. TCL chairman Wilfred Espinet said if the one-time impairment expenses were excluded from the results, the profit after tax figure would have amounted to TTD88m, which would have been 166 per c...
Dalmia Bharat increases stake in OCL India
Dalmia Bharat has increased its stake in OCL India, one of the largest cement entities in eastern India with plants in Orissa and West Bengal. “The company’s subsidiary Company, Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Limited on February 25, 2015 has increased its stake in OCL India Limited from 48 per cent to 74.6 per cet through inter-se transfer within the promoter group of OCL India Limited,” Dalmia Bhara...
Dewan Cement sales rise 23% YoY
Pakistan-based Dewan Cement Ltd (DCL) reported a 1.46 per cent decline in half-year profit to PKR202m (US$1.98m) compared to PKR202m a year earlier. However, sales increased by 23 per cent from PKR4.4bn to PKR5.42bn during 1HFY14-15. Distribution costs increased from PKR74m to PKR197m in half year period (July - December 2014). No cash dividend or bonus shares were earmarked for shareho...
Upbeat outlook for Siam Cement PLC
Kasikorn Securities (Thailand) has reinitiated coverage of Thai conglomerate Siam Cement PLC with an 'Outperform' rating due to renewed optimism in domestic cement consumption and further improvement in its chemical business' profitability. The research house says the Thai cement industry is expected to resume its organic growth at about 6-7 per cent in 2015. “We believe that the industry h...
Holcim to sell Siam City Cement stake, Thailand
Siam City Cement PCL (SCCC), Thailand's second-largest cement maker, said on Monday Holcim has decided to sell its 27.5 per cent stake in the company. SCCC said in a statement that Thai Roc-Cem Ltd, Holcim's indirect wholly-owned subsidiary, will sell 63.29 million shares of SCCC, but Holcim gave no details about the divestment or when the sale would be finalised. At the end of 2012, Holcim ...
Lafarge uplifts its dividend proposal
Lafarge's Board of Directors has decided to fix the proposed 2015 ordinary dividend at EUR1.27 per share, the company announced in a statement. This adjustment aims at equalising dividends to be paid by Lafarge and Holcim based on the dividend announced today by Holcim in accordance with the Combination Agreement between Lafarge and Holcim signed on 7 July 2014. In the context of the planned...
Indonesia: producers' shares fall on Widodo price move
Shares of two of Indonesia’s leading cement producers have lost at least 13 per cent from their July 2014 peak following the decision by the country’s new president to impose price cuts on state-owned cement manufacturers. During the presidential election last July, shares of PT Holcim Indonesia and PT Semen Indonesia jumped to one-year highs fuelled by bets that Widodo’s US$18bn infrastruct...
Holcim sees 3% improvement in like-for-like net sales
Holcim increased net sales by three per cent on a like-for-like basis in 2014. Growth mostly resulted from price improvements in many regions, particularly in North America against a favourable market environment as well as a response to cost inflation in Latin America. An unfavourable currency effect of 5.2 per cent and negative changes in consolidation structure impacted the consolidated...