Three potential candidates for PPC chief executive role
PPC is considering Darryll Castle as one of three candidates to become CEO of South Africa's biggest cement maker, a person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. Castle, form...
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South Africa: PPC receives merger offer from AfriSam
South Africa’s leading cement producer, PPC, has received a merger offer from local rival AfriSam that would create a dominant player in the country. “The Board is considering t...
South Africa: PPC to reshuffle board
PPC and its investors have agreed to reshuffle the company's board, calling off a special shareholder meeting scheduled for next Monday.
PPC signs waste tyre agreement
PPC has signed an agreement to source waste tyres from the Recycling and Economic Development Initiative of South Africa (Redisa) for use at its De Hoek cement factory, South Af...
PPC full-year cement sales rise 2%
South Africa's largest cement producer, PPC, reported a two per cent rise in cement sales for the full year to the end of September 2014, as growth in some of its sub-Saharan ma...
PPC calls shareholder meeting to consider board overhaul
South Africa's leading cement producer, PPC, said on Friday that it would convene a meeting of shareholders next month "to consider the removal of the entire existing board" aft...
Claassen to replace Tomes as PPC MD
Johann Claassen, former head of domestic operations, is to become MD of South Africa’s PPC. He will replace Richard Tomes who resigned effective Thursday to “pursue other opport...
SA watchdog puts condition on merger approval
The Competition Commission of South Africa has consented to the merger of Holcim and Lafarge SA on condition that Holcim divests of the shareholding in Afrisam within three year...
PPC chief executive quits, South Africa
Ketso Gordhan, the chief executive officer of PPC Ltd (PPC), resigned from his post at South Africa’s largest cement maker because of differences with the board.
Lafarge Africa completes consolidation process
Lafarge Africa Plc, formerly Lafarge Cement Wapco Nigeria Plc, has announced the completion of its acquisition of the Lafarge group’s shareholdings in Lafarge South Africa Holdi...