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Podilskyi Tsement Decides To Boost Capital

Shareholders of Podilskyi Tsement company one of Ukraine’s three largest producers of cement, decided at a meeting on May 11 to increase the statutory fund by UAH 59.832 million to UAH 69.804 mill...
News - 24 June 2005

CRH ’could face a €5bn takeover bid’

CRH could be "vulnerable" to a takeover bid, according to its stockbroker Davy, which feels that €8 a share is not out of the question.  Such a price would represent a 27pc premium over yester...
News - 20 June 2005

Hanson up on takeover talk after German deal

Shares in UK building materials firm Hanson rose 2.5 percent on Monday, a leading gainer in a buoyant European construction and materials sector after a takeover move for Germany’s HeidelbergCemen...
News - 14 June 2005

Irish CRH To Go On With Swiss Expansion

Irish cement and construction materials group CRH plans to continue its expansion in Switzerland via acquisitions. However: "The expansion opportunities are limited due to the strong market positi...
News - 07 June 2005

CRH believes it is better positioned

Chairman Pat Molloy, speaking at last week’s AGM in Dublin, said the impact on the business depended on the extent to which it was able to pass on any increase. "So far in 2005 we have had more su...
News - 09 May 2005

CRH now ’better positioned’ to handle €0m oil burden

CRH believes it is better positioned now to deal with the continuing high oil price, which added some €50m to its cost base in 2004.   Chairman Pat Molloy, speaking at yesterday’s agm in Dubli...
News - 05 May 2005

Polish cement sales fall

The combined sales of cement in Poland dropped by about 25 per cent year-on-year to 1.1Mt in the first quarter of 2005, mainly due to the prolonged winter which had caused a halt in construction wo...
News - 15 April 2005

Podilskyi Cement reduces production, Baltcem increases

In February, the Podilskyi Tsement company (Khmelnytskyi region, Ukraine), which is one of the three largest producers of cement in Ukraine,  in which Ireland’s CRH Poland BV owns 94.7 per cent of...
News - 16 March 2005

Semapa net profit quadruples

Portuguese conglomerate Semapa SGPS which is a majority owner of Portuguese cement maker Secil, said net profit more than quadrupled to Euro 182.1m last year from Euro 40.1m in 2003, because of ga...
News - 16 March 2005

CRH posts another credible advance

CRH, based in Ireland, generated a turnover of €12,820m in 2004, an increase of 15.7 per cent, but at constant currency rates the advance represents some 22 per cent.  The EBITDA rose by 15.8% to ...
News - 02 March 2005