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CRH’s views on sector consolidation sought next week

CRH PLC’s views on the consolidation of the European cement industry and whether it plans to get involved in the latest round of takeover activity will be a major talking point when the Irish-base...
News - 28 February 2005

Cement users to resist hike in prices

The Irish concrete industry is expected to fiercely resist an unwanted hike in the cement price which comes at a time when its own selling prices are under pressure. Three of the island’s four cem...
News - 17 February 2005

CRH linked to possible Spanish acquisition

With consolidation in the European cement sector showing some acceleration of late, trying to gauge where the next deal is coming from provides industry analysts with some interesting speculation....
News - 19 January 2005

Statistics from the Ukraine

In October-December 2004, the Baltsem plant (Balakliia, Kharkiv region), one of the three major cement producers in Ukraine, reduced production of cement by 6.7 per cent or 20,500t compared with t...
News - 12 January 2005

CRH sees FY pretax profits rising

CRH said its full-year profit before tax is expected to break the Euro 1bn level (2003: Euro 864m) for the first time.   The group has performed strongly in 2004 with good full year organic growth...
News - 05 January 2005

Podilskyi Cement plans to increase output, Ukraine

The Podilskyi Tsement company (Kamianets-Podilskyi, Khmelnytskyi region), one of top three cement producers, plans to increase production by 12.5 per cent in 2005, producing 1.575Mt of clinker and...
News - 29 November 2004

Semapa Q3 net rises, Portugal

Industrial holding company Semapa said net profit surged five-fold to Euro 162.317m in the third quarter from Euro29.176m a year earlier, boosted by cash flow from the sales of stakes in cement mak...
News - 29 November 2004

Swiss Watchdog probes possible price fixing

The Swiss Competition Commission said Tuesday it has opened an investigation into possible cement and concrete price-fixing in  connection with an Alptransit tunnel project in Switzerland.  The co...
News - 25 November 2004

CRH talks to JP Morgan analysts

Reporting from a recent Dublin meeting with JP Morgan analysts, they note that although CRH did not talk about current trading as such, they believe the overall tone was that there probably would ...
News - 03 November 2004

Wienerberger spends €151m

Wienerberger is moving into manufacturing in Great Britain through the acquisition of ten facing brick works from venture capitalists Cinven and Royal Bank of Scotland for €145m and is investing a...
News - 05 October 2004