LafargeHolcim nominate candidates for merged company’s Board of Directors

In the framework of their proposed merger of equals, the Boards of Directors of 680 Holcim and 725 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 (currently Chairman of the BoD and Chief Executive Officer of Lafarge)
• Beat Hess, Vice-Chairman (currently Deputy Chairman of the BoD of Holcim)
• Bertrand Collomb (currently Honorary Chairman of Lafarge1)
• Philippe Dauman (currently member of the BoD of Lafarge)
• Paul Desmarais Jr. (currently member of the BoD of Lafarge)
• Oscar Fanjul (currently Vice-Chairman of the BoD of Lafarge)
• Alexander Gut (currently member of the BoD of Holcim)
• Gérard Lamarche (currently member of the BoD of Lafarge)
• Adrian Loader (currently member of the BoD of Holcim)
• Nassef Sawiris (currently member of the BoD of Lafarge)
• Thomas Schmidheiny (currently member of the BoD of Holcim)
• Hanne Birgitte Breinbjerg Sørensen (currently member of the BoD of Holcim)
• Dieter Spälti (currently member of the BoD of Holcim)

Subject to the execution and completion of the merger project, Anne Wade and Jürg Oleas will resign from their office as members of the Board of Directors at Holcim with effect as of the completion of the merger project.

The imminent election of the Board of Directors of the merged company comes after Holcim and Lafarge agreed to appoint Eric Olsen as CEO of the merged business.

The merger of Switzerland-based Holcim and French company Lafarge will create the world’s single biggest cement supplier with annual revenues of around  €38 billion.