Holcim
Adani seals $10.5 bn deal for Holcim’s cements business in India
16 May 2022
Adani Group acquired 63.19 per cent of Holcim’s two cement units in India Ambuja Cements Ltd and its subsidiary ACC in fierce bidding with local rivals
Holcim weighs sale of cement business in India: report
15 Apr 2022
Holcim Group, which has recently been selling off its non-core assets, in order to reduce debt and diversify through acquisitions, sold off its Brazilian unit for $1 billion in September last year, and is reported to be in talks to divest its business in Zimbabwe
Competition Tribunal stays Lafarge's India asset sale
14 Apr 2016
The tribunal’s decision comes as a setback to the global merger between French cement giant Lafarge and Swiss building materials firm Holcim
€41-bn Holcim-Lafarge merger gets conditional US, Canadian nod
05 May 2015
The merger of two of the world's biggest cement companies, Switzerland's Holcim and Paris-based Lafarge, will create the world's biggest cement maker with a market cap of $50 billion and annual sales of nearly $43 billion
Holcim shareholders reject revised terms of merger with Lafarge
30 Mar 2015
Russian businessman Filaret Galchev, Holcim's second-largest shareholder, has rejected the revised merger terms as too low, and objected to the move to remove Lafarge boss Bruno Lafont as CEO of the combined group
Holcim seeks renegotiation of merger deal with Lafarge
17 Mar 2015
The merger of the world’s two biggest cement makers, Holcim and Lafarge, is headed for collapse after Holcim demanded a revision of the agreed merger terms
Indian regulator says cement giants Holcim-Lafarge merger to hurt competition
24 Nov 2014
The Competition Commission of India says the equal merger between cement giants Holcim of Switzerland and Lafarge of France is likely to hurt competition in the country.
