{"id":6331,"date":"2011-12-22T00:39:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T22:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/lafarge-seeks-south-africa-cement-unit-sale-report\/"},"modified":"2011-12-22T00:39:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T22:39:14","slug":"lafarge-seeks-south-africa-cement-unit-sale-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/lafarge-seeks-south-africa-cement-unit-sale-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Lafarge seeks South Africa cement unit sale-report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">PARIS<\/span> Dec 21 (Reuters) &#8211; Lafarge, the world&#8217;s biggest<br \/>\ncement maker, is seeking a buyer for its cement operations in<br \/>\nSouth Africa in a deal that may fetch $700-$800 million euros,<br \/>\nBloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing two unnamed<br \/>\nsources.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Potential bidders may include Indian conglomerate Aditya<br \/>\nBirla Group, the owner of India&#8217;s largest cement maker,<br \/>\nUltraTech Cement Ltd, Bloomberg said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A Lafarge spokeswoman declined to comment. Aditya Birla was<br \/>\nnot immediately available for comment.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Elena Berton; Editing by Greg Mahlich)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2011 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS Dec 21 (Reuters) &#8211; Lafarge, the world&#8217;s biggest cement maker, is seeking a buyer for its cement operations in South Africa in a deal that may fetch $700-$800 million euros, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing two unnamed sources. Potential bidders may include Indian conglomerate Aditya Birla Group, the owner of India&#8217;s largest cement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-6331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}