Lafarge

History:

Founded in 1833 by Joseph-Auguste Pavin de Lafarge at Le Teil, Lafarge SA has gone on to become the largest cement manufacturing company in the world.

Activities:

Five different products come out of the production house of Lafarge. They are cement, construction aggregates, concrete, gypsum wallboard, and roofing tile. Of these cement alone accounts for 45% of the total sales worldwide. Other best selling products include the tensile concrete known as Ductal, which does not require steel reinforcements.

Performance:

Lafarge reported annual sales to the tune of $18,913.7 million and net income to the tune of $1,299.3million in 2005. A comparative break up of the performance over the last fiscals are given below-

Assets & Infrastructure: Some of the noted subsidiaries of the Lafarge Group are: Lafarge Cement UK Lafarge Malayan Cement Berhad Lafarge North America Inc. MonierLifetile LLC Lafarge functions presently in over than seventy six countries. Corporate Address: Postal Address: 61, rue des Belles Feuilles, 75116 Paris Cedex 16, France Telephone: +33-1-44-34-11-11 Fax: +33-1-44-34-12-00 Website: www.lafarge.com

Organization:

Mr. B.P. Collomb is the chairman of the Lafarge Corporation.Mr. B Lafont is the company CEO and Director. Lafarge SA had an employee count of 80,146 in 2005.

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