CRH makes good start to 2021

CRH, the Ireland-headquartered global building materials group, has made a positive start to 2021 with a 3% year-on-year rise in its like-for-like sales in the first quarter.

By Guy Woodford April 28, 2021 Read time: 1 min

CRH CEO Albert Manifold

“We had a positive start to the year in a seasonally quiet period for our business with good underlying demand and pricing progress across our key markets," said CRH’s Group CEO Albert Manifold. "While near-term uncertainties remain, we expect first-half profitability to be well ahead of the prior-year period, which experienced a heavily disrupted second quarter due to COVID-19. As we look ahead to the second half of the year, we expect further normalisation in our markets as the health situation continues to improve.”

The first quarter of 2021 saw the completion of the US$200 million divestment of CRH’s Brazilian cement business.

Quarry Products

For more information on companies in this article

CRH

CRH makes good start to year & eyes strong H1

CRH posted a good start to 2023, with EBITDA growth and Q1 like-for-like sales up 5% on last year.

February 26, 2015

CRH results show 2014 year of growth

CRH, the Irish construction materials group, increased sales by 5% to €18.9 billion in 2014 and said that 2015 would be another year of progress. It pointed to an improvement in the global economic backdrop; a US recovery that gained momentum and a Europe that was normalising. The group said that 2014 was a year of growth for CRH, with different trends in the two halves. Europe in particular benefited from favourable weather conditions in the first half, and was the main driver of the 5% increase in like-fo

April 27, 2022

CRH Americas materials sales rise in Q1

Each of CRH company Oldcastle’s six U.S. product groups provided materials for the 3 million-square-foot, 100,000-seater Dallas Cowboys stadium. Pic: CRH

November 25, 2020

CRH reports "robust" performance in challenging trading environment

Global building materials group CRH has issued a trading update for the first nine months of the year, reporting a further improvement in EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) and margin, despite lower sales and markets being impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.