Displaying items by tag: Shares

Philippines: Cemex Holdings Philippines (CHP) sold its entire stake in Swiss-based Cemex Asia Research (CAR) to Cemex Innovation Holding for US$900,459 to streamline its business, according to BusinessWorld. CHP signed a share purchase agreement with Cemex Innovation on 26 November 2024 involving the sale of 118,849 shares. The company is the licensee under certain licence agreements with Cemex and its subsidiaries for certain trademarks and intangible assets, which it sublicensed to CHP and its domestic subsidiaries. Cemex Innovation is an affiliate of Mexican operating and holding company Cemex.

India/US: Shares in Gautam Adani-led conglomerates fell by 20% on 21 November 2024 after prosecutors in the US filed bribery charges against Adani and his associates. They allege a US$250m payoff to Indian officials to secure solar power contracts. Adani, along with seven co-defendants, including his nephew Sagar Adani, is accused of paying the bribes to secure contracts for what would become India's largest solar power project, projected to generate US$2bn in profits over the next 20 years.

The companies affected in the share fall included the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), which holds stakes in seven Adani companies, including ACC and Ambuja Cement, as well as Adani Enterprises, Adani Ports, Adani Green Energy, Adani Energy Solutions and Adani Total Gas.

Adani Group has denied the allegations, calling them ‘baseless.’

Chile: Cementos Bío Bío (Cbb) will likely have new owners soon, as the US group Mississippi Lime Company has offered to acquire 100% of the company for nearly US$400m and shareholders are now negotiating its sale. The producer’s board authorised a due diligence process in May 2024, which has now been substantially concluded. A shareholder of Cbb, Peru's Yura, launched an offer in November 2024 for 20% of the Chilean cement company, thus reaching 40% of the shares. Yura bought 20% of Cbb for US$50m in 2019.

Spain: FCC spin-off company Inmocemento plans to start trading shares on the Spanish Stock Exchanges from 12 November 2024. The cement and real estate business is expected to have a market value of €1.93bn, according to Reuters. FCC said in October 2024 that it had transferred related assets to Inmocemento. This included most of the assets from subsidiaries FCYC and Cementos Portland Valderrivas, in addition to FCC's cement plants and the share it owns in real estate developers Realia and Metrovacesa. All FCC shareholders received a number of shares in Inmocemento proportional to their holdings in FCC. Plans for the spin-off were first reported in May 2024.

Switzerland/US: Holcim may list its upcoming market-separated North American business both in the US and Switzerland, Bloomberg has reported. The possibility arose due to Swiss and European restrictions on foreign shareholdings for locally-based funds, which may result in sales of Holcim stocks, with negative price impacts. On the other hand, a dual listing could potentially reduce the liquidity of any future US-listed shares.

SeeNews has reported that Holcim North America will be headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, for tax ‘advantages,’ while operating out of Chicago, US.

India: UltraTech Cement will procure an additional 7MW of wind-solar hybrid power production capacity from Continuum MP Windfarm, increasing total procurement from 14MW to 21MW. This power is supplied from its 100MW project in Ratlam District in Madhya Pradesh. To facilitate this, UltraTech has raised its shareholding in Continuum MP Windfarm from 3.28% to 5.46% by investing approximately US$2.9m. The acquisition is expected to complete within 120 days following amendments to the power purchase Agreement, share purchase agreement, and shareholders agreement.

Morocco: Heidelberg Materials has signed a strategic agreement to acquire Votorantim Cimentos' assets in Morocco, including a 63% share in cement and ready-mix concrete producer Asment de Témara and the entire stake in aggregates supplier Grabemaro through its subsidiary Ciments du Maroc. This acquisition positions Ciments du Maroc to expand its operations in Northern Morocco, adding a cement plant with a production capacity of 1.4Mt/yr, two aggregates sites and eight ready-mix concrete plants. The acquisition includes access to an alternative fuels platform enhancing the fuel rate at the newly acquired cement plant to 70% by 2027, reportedly contributing to reduced environmental impact and optimised production-related energy costs. The completion of the transaction awaits regulatory approval from Moroccan competition authorities, and financial details remain undisclosed.

Chair of the managing board of Heidelberg Materials Dominik von Achten said "Our latest investment marks an important step as part of our ongoing portfolio optimisation to strengthen our core markets. Expanding our presence in the attractive Moroccan market while increasing our use of alternative fuels will generate substantial financial synergies and thus help us accelerate our ambitious decarbonisation efforts throughout our sites in the country and grow our local offering of sustainable solutions."

Ukraine: The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) has approved CRH Ukraine's acquisition of over 50% of the voting shares in Dyckerhoff Cement Ukraine. This move is part of a broader agreement that includes anti-competitive measures to be implemented within 24 months post-transaction. CRH Ukraine will acquire a 99.9775% stake in Dyckerhoff, with expectations for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to potentially join as an investor following a mandate signed in December 2023. 

India: Star Cement has announced the formation of Ri Pnar Cement in Meghalaya as a wholly-owned subsidiary. The incorporation was approved by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs on 5 September 2024, and involves an authorised capital of US$11,911, divided into 100,000 equity shares valued at US$0.12 each.

India: Ambuja Cements’ minority shareholder GQG Partners has increased its stake in the company from 1.4% to 2.4%. The value of the newly acquired shares was US$200m, the New Indian Express newspaper has reported. Other recent investors in the company, following a divestment of 2.8% of shares by its parent, Adani Group, include the Indian National Pension System Trust and SBI Life Insurance. They bought total shares worth US$62.6m and US$59.6m respectively. Following the deals, majority shareholder Adani Group now holds an 67% stake in Ambuja Cements.