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Rinker Group was acquired by CEMEX, the world's third-largest cement producer, through its subsidiary CEMEX Australia Pty Ltd. in a US$14.2 billion takeover bid. As of June 2007, CEMEX owned a 67.3% stake in Rinker Group. The chief executive officer was David Clarke, who had long worked in CSR's heavy building products division.
On October 27, 2006, CEMEX announced a US$12.8 billion offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Rinker Group, Limited. Seven months later, on April 10, 2007, the Rinker board of directors approved an upgraded offer of USD 14.2 billion, and on June 7, 2007, CEMEX secured the commitment from the holders of more than 50% of the shares to ...
It spun off its interests in heavy building products to a separate listed company, Rinker Group, in 2003. In 2007, CSR established the Viridian glass company which it sold in 2019. [2] French multinational Saint-Gobain acquired CSR for A$4.5 billion (US$2.95 billion) in 2024. [3]
Oldcastle Materials Inc. is a supplier of asphalt, concrete, and other building materials, and also offers construction and paving services. The Atlanta-based company is a subsidiary of CRH plc, a publicly traded international group of diversified building materials businesses, [2] [3] and has approximately 18,000 employees at 1,200 locations, as of March 2018.
Guthy-Renker was founded in November 1988 by Bill Guthy and Greg Renker. They met at the Indian Wells Racquet Club and Resort in Indian Wells, California. [2] [3] [4] They considered starting an infomercial company after an order was placed at Guthy's cassette duplication company, Cassette Productions Unlimited, for 50,000 copies of a real estate lecture to be sold through infomercials.
In June 2007, General Motors sold Allison Transmission to financial investors Carlyle Group and Onex Corporation. In 2010, Onex and the Canada Pension Plan acquired English engineering firm Tomkins, though Onex only held 14% of shares. [3] At the end of 2017, Onex acquired SMG.
The Meet Group, Inc. (formerly MeetMe) owns several dating app networking services including MeetMe, hi5, LOVOO, Growlr, Skout, and Tagged.
In October 2020, Hims closed a deal with Oaktree Capital Management to go public through a blank check company, reaching a valuation of $1.6 billion. [7] As part of the deal, the company was renamed Hims & Hers Health Inc. [11] The transaction was completed in January 2021, and the company started trading publicly on the New York Stock Exchange.