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...Rakesh Kapoor, chief executive, said: “Growth has not yet returned to developed markets, and emerging markets in aggregate are weaker.”...
...“Climate change has negatively affected wheat and maize yields for many regions and in the global aggregate,” it said....
...Lafarge and Tarmac’s hopes have been further complicated by an additional industry-wide investigation by competition authorities – taking in Hanson, now owned by Heidelberg, of Germany; Aggregate Industries...
...Aggregates prices may continue to rise but Hanson could struggle to offset rising energy costs in building products markets....
...At the start of the year there were three big aggregates companies in the UK. Now Hanson (£4.2bn) stands alone....
...Sector peers Aggregate Industries rose 5.6 per cent to 94p and Hanson added 3.3 per cent to 403p. The FTSE 250 rose 0.07 per cent to 6,226.8, while the FTSE 100 fell 0.8 per cent to 4,541.2....
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