Thierry Legrand, who has been the chief executive of
Kenneth MacLean, currently Lafarge group's senior vice president for performance aggregate, will replace him from 1 August 2014.
During his time in South Africa, Legrand integrated the company's local cement, aggregates, ready-mixed concrete, gypsum and fly ash business lines into a country organisation and drove its ambition of contributing to building better cities.
MacLean said that he was excited to be in South Africa and looked forward to the challenge.
