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Switzerland: Holcim’s largest stakeholder wants a better merger deal

By  |  March 8, 2015

Holcim’s largest stakeholder, Thomas Schmidheiny, wants a better deal for the Swiss cement maker’s shareholders in its planned merger with Lafarge, SonntagsZeitung reported.

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    The merger with France’s Lafarge to create the world’s biggest cement maker was agreed last April.

    SonntagsZeitung also reported that Swiss shareholder group Ethos, which represents around 200 pension funds, is against the deal.

     

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