Cement group Blue Circle is set to be snapped up by French building materials group Lafarge - which tried and failed to take over the UK firm last year, opening up a bitter bidding war.

Blue Circle has made its first major deal since defeating the £3.65bn hostile takeover bid by French predator Lafarge in May. The cement producer has sold its 50% stake in Aalborg Portland to its ...

LONDON (CNNfn) - France's Lafarge agreed to buy rival cement maker Blue Circle in a £4.8 billion ($7.2 billion) transaction Monday, resuscitating a deal that died last year. The French firm ...

It will also take on about £1.7 billion in Blue Circle debt. "Through this substantial acquisition, we are achieving a historic leadership in cement, the keystone of our leadership in building ...

15 years after the closure of the Blue Circle Cement plant in Weardale, County Durham, with the loss of 150 jobs, people living close say the impact is still being felt. Scores of families had to ...

London / Paris - French building materials group Lafarge said on Monday it had agreed to buy the 77.4% it did not already own of British rival Blue Circle Industries Plc for E3.8bn, heralding the ...

for Blue Circle of Britain, it said today. Lafarge said that the takeover would make it the world's biggest cement producer in the world, with capacity to make about 150 million tons per year.

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McCane of counsel), for appellant. Stockton, Barker & Mead, Albany (Leith Carole Ramsey of counsel), for Blue Circle Cement and another, respondents. Mercure, J. Appeal from a decision of the ...

BLUE Circle, the global cement group, is poised to agree a £3.1bn bid from Lafarge, the vast French building materials group which tried and failed to buy the group in a hostile bid last year.