Peruvian cement producer, Cementos Pacasmayo, which completed a US$230m share offering in New York, has “substantial growth potential” with its cement plant expansion and phosphate project, said Eduardo Hochschild, chairman of the company’s owner Hochschild Group.

“The share will go up, down, sideways and what have you, and that’s what it usually does,” Hochschild said from New York after the shares fell as much as 14.6 per cent, according to a Bloomberg report. “In liquidity, New York has more than London and was best for the company.”