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...Three years ago, the Commission imposed fines totalling €1.4bn ($1.9bn) on Asahi, Pilkington, Saint-Gobain and Soliver, windscreen glass suppliers, for illegal market sharing and exchanging commercially...
...Most recently, it bought Michigan-based Delphi’s seatbelt business in Asia, North America and Europe. The four glass makers fined in 2008 controlled 90 per cent of the market....
...A judge in Regina v....
...Construction materials company Saint-Gobain rose 2 per cent to €34.01...
...K+S in Germany lost 1.4 per cent to €41.79 while Saint Gobain in Paris declined 2.8 per cent to €31.28....
...French cement maker Lafarge slid 4.4 per cent to €36.47, while materials supplier Saint-Gobain lost 4.7 per cent to €28.96. Construction company Bouygues fell 3.3 per cent to €32.05....
...They whisper wishes into stones, wrap them in shimmering cloth and hang them from a pole planted in the tomb of the saint. The site feels forlorn. Fountains cascading down the rocks have run dry....
...Compared with more heavily geared European rivals such as Saint-Gobain and Lafarge, both raising capital to reduce debt, CRH looks in good shape....
...But its gamble on Saint Gobain, where it holds a 21.5 per cent stake, has gone badly wrong....
...There was more good news on the results front from construction group Saint-Gobain, which rose 4.2 per cent to €39.31 after reassuring investors with solid first-half results....
...Spain’s Sacyr Vallehermoso lost 12.6 per cent to €15.01, Grupo Ferrovial dropped 11.4 per cent to €31.97 and French construction group Saint Gobain slipped 10.2 per cent to €32.88, while Irish cement maker...
...The broker lowered its target prices on four companies – Saint Gobain, the French building materials group, and the cement makers Holcim, Lafarge and CRH....
...BPB gained 0.1 per cent to 736½p after the plasterboard maker rejected a 720p a share offer from France’s Saint-Gobain....
..., Casino and Saint-Gobain....
...Saint Gobain rose 0.4 per cent to €47.70, while Lafarge added 0.7 per cent to €76.05 and Vinci rose 0.8 per cent to €116.10....
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