{"id":111167,"date":"2026-08-03T12:59:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/111167\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T12:59:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:59:21","slug":"swiss-firm-holcim-sells-operations-in-philippines-to-chinese-company-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/111167\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss firm Holcim sells operations in Philippines to Chinese company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1785761959_722_138b1f7a6b223f038368787103ab0f0c0c5366ce-91837208.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"Holcim sells its operations in the Philippines to a Chinese company\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Holcim sells its operations in the Philippines to a Chinese company            <\/p>\n<p>            Keystone-SDA        <\/p>\n<p>        The building materials giant Holcim has formalised an agreement with the Chinese company Huaxin Building Materials for the sale of its operations in the Philippines.\n<\/p>\n<p>            Listen to the article        <\/p>\n<p>            Listening the article        <\/p>\n<p>                Toggle language selector            <\/p>\n<p>                            English (US)                        <\/p>\n<p>                            English (British)                        <\/p>\n<p>            Generated with artificial intelligence.        <\/p>\n<p>        This content was published on    <\/p>\n<p>        August 3, 2026 &#8211; 10:37\n<\/p>\n<p>The entire transaction was valued at a total of $807 million dollars (CHF654 million).<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement issued yesterday by the Zug-based group, the first phase of the divestment involves the immediate transfer of a 68% stake for a consideration of $527 million. This initial tranche forms the core of the agreement between the two companies. For the remaining stake, Holcim has agreed to a phased disposal mechanism: the sale of this stake will take place over a period of between three and five years, with a guaranteed minimum price of $280 million.<\/p>\n<p>\n    More<\/p>\n<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1785761961_901_Screenshot-2026-06-17-at-15.25.03.png\" width=\"577\" height=\"1053\" alt=\"Photo of a woman\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        More    <\/p>\n<p>        Workplace\n        <\/p>\n<p>        Holcim spins off Amrize in biggest Swiss M&amp;A deal in 2025    <\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-wide-card__excerpt\">\n<p>                        This content was published on                    <\/p>\n<p>                        Jun 17, 2026                    <\/p>\n<p>                In June last year, Holcim announced it completed the spinoff of its North American business Amrize. The deal valued at $33.7 billion valuation was the biggest Swiss M&amp;A deal in 2025.            <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"teaser-wide-card__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/workplace\/amrize-spins-off-holcim-to-tap-us-market-potential\/91440021\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>            Read more: Holcim spins off Amrize in biggest Swiss M&amp;A deal in 2025<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The completion of the sale of the majority stake is expected in the first half of 2027. However, the transaction remains subject to obtaining the necessary approvals from the relevant regulatory authorities.<\/p>\n<p>This divestment forms part of Holcim\u2019s broader strategy to optimise its global portfolio, focusing investment on key markets and innovative solutions for sustainable construction, while gradually divesting from areas deemed non-strategic.<\/p>\n<p>The stock market reacted calmly to the news: on the Zurich stock exchange, Holcim shares \u2013 which are part of the Swiss Market Index, the index of the 20 leading stocks \u2013 rose by 0.3% at the opening, in a market generally trending upwards. Since the start of January, the share price has fallen by 6%, while its performance over the past twelve months (+13%) and five years (+172%) has been positive.<\/p>\n<p>In its current form, the Holcim Group was formed in 2015 through the merger of the Swiss company Holcim (formerly Holderbank, a firm founded in 1912 in the Aargau town of the same name) and the French company Lafarge. Today, it operates in 45 countries with a workforce of over 50,000 and a turnover that reached CHF15.7 billion in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>+\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/about-us\/how-swissinfo-produces-news-in-english\/91695684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">How we produce English news<\/a><br \/>Translated from German, reviewed by an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/department\/english-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">English Department<\/a>\u00a0journalist.<\/p>\n<p>        Articles in this story    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Holcim sells its operations in the Philippines to a Chinese company Keystone-SDA The building materials giant Holcim has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[101,629,114,100,566,103,102,41,17],"class_list":["post-111167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-article","tag-beat-workplace","tag-business","tag-latest-news","tag-multinationals","tag-production-type-deepl-autotranslation","tag-sda-ready-to-publish","tag-swiss","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117031702928032953","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}