DESIGN CRITERIA

Cement Roadstone Holdings plc



Cement Roadstone Holdings plc

Introduction

CRH Plc. is an Irish building materials manufacturer that is headquartered in Dublin. The rank of the company in the Fortune Global 500 is 428. CRH Plc was formed in 1970 through the merger of state-owned companies Cement Limited (established in 1936) and Roadstone Limited (established in 1949). At the time of establishment, the company was the only cement producer in Ireland and the main producer of asphalt and cement products. In 1973, the company began its international expansion with the acquisition of the Dutch company Van Neerbos (www.independent.ie, n.d.). In 1978 with ...