Cement produces more pollution than all the trucks in the worldManufacturing the stone-like building material is responsible for 7% of global carbon dioxide emissions, more than what comes from all the ...
23 Jun, 2019, 11.44 PM IST
Delaying action on climate change will hurt growth: Global CEOsAdvocating the need for meaningful "global action" to deal with climate change, honchos of 78 corporates, including from India.
23 Nov, 2015, 07.19 PM IST
PE funds, cement majors like CRH Plc in race for Lafarge India assets in $1 billion dealThe three will be competing with Temasek, the Singapore government's investment arm, Heidelberg, the world's third biggest cement maker.
05 Jun, 2015, 02.43 AM IST
From liquor to cement & construction: Women earning positions in traditionally-male dominated sectorsFrom liquor to construction to aviation, women are earningtheir stripes in sectors perceived to be cosy male bastions.
10 May, 2015, 04.01 AM IST
Lafarge, Holcim to sell assets to CRH for 6.5 billion euros"We estimate the financial debt at 1.3 billion euros... so yes, around 5 billion euros are in cash," Bruno Lafont said.
02 Feb, 2015, 04.23 PM IST
UltraTech drops out of race for Holcim-Lafarge assetsIndustry experts point out that recent acquisition of JP Associates' MP unit by Ultratech has quelled KM Birla's appetite for acquisitions ...
12 Jan, 2015, 09.26 PM IST
Dalmia Bharat eyes European assets of Holcim-LafargeSources with direct knowledge suggest that Delhi-based Dalmia Bharat is in talks to place a bid for one or more European cement assets put ...
27 Nov, 2014, 03.53 PM IST
Aditya Birla Group bids for Lafarge-Holcim assets, says sourcesAditya Birla Group has submitted a bid for the Brazilian and the Philippine assets of cement industry leaders Lafarge and Holcim.
21 Oct, 2014, 09.12 PM IST
Aditya Birla Group bids for Lafarge, Holcim unitsThe Kumar Mangalam Birla headed group submitted bids on Monday to purchase global assets likely to be carved out of the merger between ceme...
21 Oct, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
Ultratech Cement evaluating various optionsAfter announcing their merger plan to create LafargeHolcim, the combined entity had identified some assets in various geographies including...
16 Oct, 2014, 08.49 PM IST
LafargeHolcim unlikely to dispose cement assets in IndiaLafarge and Holcim had announced the plan for a "merger of equals" to create the world's largest building materials making firm LafargeHolc...
07 Jul, 2014, 03.29 PM IST
Holcim, Lafarge agree to create cement giantWolfgang Reitzle will be chairman of the new merged entity while Lafarge's current chief Bruno Lafont will become its chief executive, said...
08 Apr, 2014, 05.25 AM IST
Expect IT earnings to remain robust: Devang Mehta, Anand Rathi SecuritiesIT would lure investors as a safe space where earnings growth is going to come as well as the demand environment is also going to improve g...
07 Apr, 2014, 06.10 PM IST
- Investors see the weakness as a chance
Investors who missed the first entry points are now looking for stocks that are still relatively cheap but likely to outperform in future i...
05 Dec, 2009, 12.51 AM IST
- Lafarge sees larger pie from India
Lafarge has said that the contribution of emerging markets such as India to its bottomline may be bigger in two years than previously estim...
10 Jan, 2009, 12.28 AM IST
- Homegrown cos competing with SAPs & McAfees
A host of homegrown companies are competing with the SAPs and McAfees of the world, to manage and protect the flood of data that Indian com...
09 Jan, 2009, 02.37 AM IST
- Govts turn up the heat on business cartels
Cartels are so unambiguously harmful that competition law and competition authorities, almost everywhere, reserve their strictest treatment...
13 Apr, 2007, 02.45 AM IST