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Home > Company Index > Materials & Construction > Aggregates, Concrete & Cement > Lafarge Canada Inc.

Lafarge Canada Inc.
 PROFILE
What's the difference between John Lennon and Lafarge Canada? Lennon made "Walls and Bridges" in 1974; Lafarge Canada, Canada's largest maker of cement and concrete-related building materials, helps make walls, bridges, and roads. The company makes construction aggregates (sand, crushed stone) and ready-mixed concrete, and it provides asphalt paving and road construction services. It also produces specialty, masonry, and portland cement. Lafarge Canada has 240 aggregate facilities, 180 ready-mix concrete plants, and 90 asphalt facilities. Lafarge Canada is a subsidiary of building products giant Lafarge Corporation (US), itself 54%-owned by Paris-based Lafarge Group.

 COMPETITION
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 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
Fiscal Year-End: December
2000 Sales (mil.): 883.20
1-Yr. Sales Growth: 8.2%

 KEY PEOPLE
• Jean-Marc Lechêne
    CEO

 CONTACT INFO
606 Cathcart St., Ste. 900
Montreal Quebec H3B 1L7, Canada
Phone: 1-514-861-1411
Fax: 1-514-861-1123

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