Holcim

For a teensy bit of backstory, a swiss company called Holcim wants to build a "death star" - like cement refining plant on the banks of the Hudson, complete with a two-mile conveyor belt and a 400-ft. smokestack belching filth into the sky.

6/1/03 Brooklyn, NY If the 2003

For a teensy bit of backstory, a swiss company called Holcim wants to build a "death star" - like cement refining plant on the banks of the Hudson, complete with a two-mile conveyor belt and a 400-ft. smokestack belching filth into the sky.

5/4/03 Columbia County, NY You 2003

Taking on €7.4 billion ($9.44 billion) of extra debt in buying Orascom Cement last year left Lafarge significantly more highly geared than European rivals such as Holcim and CRH.

Unloved Lafarge 2008

The fundamental matter to them was the unfathomable puzzle that an eminently successful global company, such as Holcim, could actually come to the conclusion that "the prerogative of economic transformation (in South Africa), can be put at the heart of a company's overall corporate development strategy so as to maximise the potential for growth and stability, which is where we believe it was intended to belong".

ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

The fundamental matter at issue among these is, to them, the unfathomable puzzle that an eminently successful global company, such as Holcim, could actually come to the conclusion that "the prerogative of economic transformation (in South Africa), can be put at the heart of a company's overall corporate development strategy so as to maximise the potential for growth and stability, which is where we believe it was intended to belong."

ANC Today 2006

It therefore took the decision that it was strategically correct that a major global company such as Holcim has the capacity both to demonstrate its unqualified commitment to the building of a non-racial South Africa, and to create the best conditions for the growth of its erstwhile subsidiary, by turning it into an African company, rather than retain it as a subsidiary of a Swiss company.

ANC Today 2006

It therefore took the decision that it was strategically correct that a major global company such as Holcim has the capacity both to demonstrate its unqualified commitment to the building of a non-racial South Africa, and to create the best conditions for the growth of its erstwhile subsidiary, by turning it into an African company, rather than retain it as a subsidiary of a

ANC Today 2006

"It therefore took the decision that it was strategically correct that a major global company, such as Holcim, has the capacity both to demonstrate its unqualified commitment to building

ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

The fundamental matter at issue among these is, to them, the unfathomable puzzle that an eminently successful global company, such as Holcim, could actually come to the conclusion that "the prerogative of economic transformation (in South

ANC Today 2006

*** Construction Cement and building-materials producer Holcim reported a return to first-quarter profit of 10 million Swiss francs $11.6 million compared with a 68 million franc loss a year earlier, and said it expected construction markets in mature countries to recover this year.

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