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...Over at the Marley roofing products business, revenue rose 36 per cent to £180mn due to consolidation effects — the company bought roof tile maker Marley at an enterprise value of £535mn back in 2022 — but...
...Its portfolio includes aggregates, cement, concrete and increasingly roofing products....
...Then, few joiners had ever heard of its product, accoya. Even fewer were prepared to work with it....
...To that end, the company has innovated and promoted low-carbon products as well as selling off some of its more polluting core cement assets, particularly in emerging markets....
...It’s just the latest deal from Holcim, which itself is the product of a megamerger nearly a decade ago with France’s Lafarge....
...Meanwhile, we take a seat in the garden of Gargiulo’s Napa farmhouse, built from salvaged old-growth redwood siding, glass and rusted metal roofing....
...Insulation and roofing specialist SIG was the latest to chip in this week; faltering demand means profits will be at the lower end of expectations this year. Shares fell steeply....
...Behind the façade, saw-tooth roofing, footbridges and a secret garden mimic the brand’s wool mill and nature park in Piedmont, northern Italy, where Ermenegildo Zegna started his company in 1910....
...Still, scaling up has not proved easy even for a company that is already the world’s largest maker of roofing materials. Like much of corporate America, GAF has run into a labour shortage....
...Similar results have been seen at SRS, a roofing products distributor owned by Berkshire Partners and Leonard Green....
...It’s not alone — roofing and insulation distributor SIG and paving merchant Marshalls have experienced similar declines....
...I would love it for a fintech company to come along and champion their rights and say, yes, these people are just as entitled to access financial products and insurance as anyone else....
...Wise co-founder and chair Taavet Hinrikus was selling up to 11m A shares in the currency transfer company, or about 1.1 per cent of the total....
...A highlight is the sweeping ramp that leads up to Spiral Market, which sells Japanese tea sets, ceramics, stationery and an eclectic array of other products....
...Shane Vinay, director of SV Roofing, a London-based roofer, said lead times for items such as plyboard and lead tiles had extended from days to three or more months and that prices for products such as wood...
...The insulation and roofing supplier posted a half year underlying pre-tax profit of £3m, from a £53.8m loss the previous year, on revenue up 32.1 per cent to £1.1bn....
...The Swiss giant said it would buy roofing materials specialist Firestone Building Products for $3.4bn on Thursday....
...“As more people are looking to outsource, you need to be a scale player,” says Des Fullam, chief product and regulatory officer at Carne, which provides manco services covering $1tn in assets....
...The cynic in Lombard cannot shake the question whether $5.5bn was the product of careful calculation....
...One part of his team handled people safety and related issues; another explored how to handle increased demand for Mondelez products, including hiring more than 1,000 people as temporary labour and pivoting...
...In October, SIG, which supplies roofing and insulation products, warned of significantly lower profits, driving its share price down and rattling the nerves of rivals....
...Until then, Mr Millstone had been working on transactions and strategy for Heyman’s operating companies — GAF, a North American roofer, and International Specialty Products, a chemicals business — while...
...This means companies such as Tetra Pak need to do more to make their products not only useful but also sustainable....
...The roofing supplier has dropped in corporate gun-for-hire Steve Francis (whose last job was fixing Patisserie Holdings post its suspension) as CEO on a contract lasting until the end of the year....
..., June 2019, McKinsey & Company, www.mckinsey.com....
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