Talk:Heidelberg Materials UK

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What was the highest revenue the Hanson Group had before it was broken up?--Jerryseinfeld 3 July 2005 15:38 (UTC)

Good question. If the break up had happened a few years later it would be possible to answer that question from an old annual report on the internet. But as it is, after googling for an answer I'm at a loss. The only ways I can think of to find out are to write to the company or to visit a library that keeps old annual reports. Carina22 23:29, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

With its acquisition by Lehigh UK (a subsidiary of the HeidelbergCement Group), Hanson plc is now Hanson Limited. Astorrs 23:01, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 22:18, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

"They also delivered value for their shareholders and swept away the complacency that had bedevilled British and American management for far too long." This is not NPV. Perhaps it should be "Hanson claimed they delivered value..." or "supporters claim they delivered value..."? Hard to say, as the citation it refers to is now a dead link. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.110.53.219 (talk) 18:28, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

I think we can reasonably infer it was an obituary (and hence a little suspect; not many people get reviled in their obits). I'll rewrite that sentence accordingly. Pinkbeast (talk) 10:07, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

Bathroom brassware

In the 1990s Hanson purchased a bathroom brassware company. The company originally made brass electrical fittings for heavy industry (shipyards and military armoured vehicle construction), but these industries were in decline and did not provide a stable demand, hence the transition to bathroom brassware. Does anyone know the company's name? FreeFlow99 (talk) 11:14, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Merge proposal

@Dormskirk, Nedrutland, Cloudbound, and OlaphYellow: I propose merging Hanson Cement into Heidelberg Materials UK (formerly Hanson (company)). I think the Hanson Cement history can easily, without article size issues or skewing the content, be incorporated into the history of the latter after it began its focus on building materials (arguably it should previously have been merged into the Hanson (company) article). Paul W (talk) 12:46, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Oppose: having looked at how a merge might be done, I think that they're best kept separate, switching to the Hanson Cement article to past-tense allowing it to focus on the history from 1874 to 2007 of the former Castle Cement company. The history of Hanson UK, from 1964 to 2007, is quite distinct, but I think fits well within the Heidelberg Materials UK page. Klbrain (talk) 18:43, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

Closing, given the uncontested objection and no support. Klbrain (talk) 08:42, 6 October 2024 (UTC)