Swiss Building-Materials Giant Holcim Plans Separation Of U.s. B…

Holcim Ltd specializes in producing and marketing construction materials. Net sales break down by family of products as follows: - cement and clinkers (45%); - ready-mix concrete (22%); - granulates (12.2%): sand, gravel, chalk, etc.; - other (20.8%). Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: France (8.1%), the United Kingdom (6.7%), Switzerland (3.2%), Germany (3%), Europe (29.3%), Canada (9.6%), Mexico (6.7%), Australia (4.7%) and other (28.7%).