The deal includes five quarries, a cement plant, 172 readymix concrete plants and Tarmac's 50% stake in Midland Quarry Products Limited (MQP). It also includes two asphalt plants, one marine aggregates wharf and one rail-linked aggregates depot.
UK competition authorities required Anglo American and Lafarge to sell assets before their proposed UK materials joint venture could go ahead.
Mittal Investments, the private investment vehicle of the Lakshmi N. Mittal family, is paying 拢272m including up to 拢30m contingent on the performance of the underlying assets over the next three years. In addition, an estimated 拢13m, which relates to working capital of the divested assets not transferring with the business, will be released as funding to the 50:50 joint venture between Lafarge and Tarmac.
Completion of the Lafarge/Anglo American JV is expected in early 2013.
Lakshmi Mittal, known as the 鈥榢ing of steel鈥�, is chairman, CEO and 聽41% owner of ArcelorMittal, the world鈥檚 biggest steel company.
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