Patrick Kron to head LafargeHolcim

The board of directors of LafargeHolcim will nominate Patrick Kron for election as a new board member at the group’s upcoming annual meeting on 3 May 3, 2017.

At the same time Philippe Dauman and Alexander Gut have taken the decision not to stand for re-election.

As communicated earlier, Bruno Lafont, currently co-chairman of the board of directors, has also decided that he will not stand for re-election.

“We are pleased to nominate Patrick Kron. He is an experienced leader with an extensive track

In the framework of their proposed merger of equals, the Boards of Directors of Holcim and Lafarge have nominated their candidates for the future Board of Directors of the combined company, subject to the completion of the merger this summer. The designated Board of Directors will consist of 14 members due to be elected at the Holcim Extraordinary General Meeting on May 8 2015.

The candidates are:

• Wolfgang Reitzle, Co-Chairman (currently Chairman of the BoD of Holcim)
• Bruno Lafont, Co-Chairman (

Thomas Schmidheiny has taken the decision not to stand for re-election at LafargeHolcim’s upcoming Annual General Meeting on 8 May 2018. He has been with the Group for almost 50 years in different management functions and later on the Board of Holcim. Following the merger, Schmidheiny has been a Board member of LafargeHolcim since 2015. He will remain one of the Group’s main shareholders. In recognition of his many years of service to LafargeHolcim, the Board of Directors has decided to name Schmidheiny

Lafarge and Holcim have today successfully secured support from Holcim shareholders for their proposed merger and completed one of the final key steps on their way to creating the world’s most advanced building materials company.

Representing around 72% of the company’s share capital, the 738 shareholders attending the extraordinary general meeting of Holcim Ltd approved all motions proposed by the board of directors.

Wolfgang Reitzle, currently Chairman of Holcim and future Co-Chairman (statutory Ch

Building materials and solutions company LafargeHolcim plans to appoint three new members to its board.

The company's board of directors will propose the appointments of Colin Hall, Naina Lal Kidwai and Claudia Sender Ramirez for shareholders to approve at the upcoming Annual General Meeting on 15 May.

Two current board members - Nassef Sawiris and Gérard Lamarche - have decided not to stand for re-election to the board at the AGM.

Colin Hall has extensive experience in international finance and is