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...Gypsum kings BPB received an award this week for best investor relations during a takeover, a somewhat Pyrrhic victory since the plasterboard maker was taken over by Saint-Gobain last year....
...Nevertheless, the two companies have had a close relationship, including a tiny joint venture called British Gypsum Isover, and through its distribution of BPB’s plasterboard in Europe, Saint-Gobain has...
...Dig deeper, then BPB’s plan to expand capacity at its French plasterboard and building plasters facility at Vaujours reminded Mudlark of an irony of industrial history....
...This year alone, Pernod Ricard paid £7.6bn for the UK’s Allied Domecq; France Telecom paid €10bn for Spain’s Amena and Saint-Gobain won its £3.89bn hostile bid for BPB, the UK producer of gypsum....
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