Albert Manifold is shaking things up at BP
Green ambitions are giving way to a tougher, US-style oil-and-gas-first agenda
CRH
CRH set for S&P 500, but gains may be fleeting
Inclusion often produces a short-term share price pop, but then fundamentals take over
Is CRH about to become Ireland’s first indigenous $100bn company?
Shares in the construction materials giant have soared since it moved its main listing to the US
CRH’s US move pays off with S&P 500 inclusion
Construction materials giant to join index later this month
CRH shares spike to record high as group set to join S&P 500
Inclusion of the Irish stock in the index will force investors that track the S&P 500 to buy CRH shares
Small Finnish town that took on CRH hit with damages bill of almost €10m
Irish group’s subsidiary had long-standing contract with local council
Infrastructure plan is make or break test for State, experts say
Business welcomes reforms but warn that time for talking is now over with a need to see consistent commitment to implementation
CRH ups earnings forecast and commits to buying back more shares
Plan to buy back $300m of shares will bring total repurchases since 2018 to $9.7bn
Irish companies ‘well positioned’ to float on stock market, EY report says
Irish stock market has not seen a new listing since 2021
CRH market value soars to record $81.6bn as new boss outlines growth plans
New CRH boss Jim Mintern unveiling medium term strategy for firm
Irish publicly quoted companies to spend record €6.9bn on buybacks amid global flurry
Heightened spend reflects a surge in stock repurchases on both sides of the Atlantic
Ukraine court sets date for CRH challenge
Local player Kovalska fears damage to competition for key building material
CRH in legal battle over Ukraine group purchase
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Battle lines drawn in legal dispute over sale of cement maker in Ukraine to CRH
While efforts to end the war in Ukraine continue, building materials giant CRH and an Irish family-owned business are caught in a conflict of their own in the eastern European country
Heavyweight firm CRH and O’Reilly motor dealer family mired in Ukraine row
Irish building materials giant faces legal challenge over cement deal
Trump-Putin summit boosts global stocks amid hopes of Ukraine ceasefire
Dublin’s Iseq moves 1% higher as banks and food stocks gain momentum
CRH sees US market for low-carbon cement alternative doubling by 2050
Building materials giant reports a better than expected 9% rise in second quarter core profit and raises full-year forecast
CRH to buy US group Eco Material for $2.1bn
US company uses materials like fly ash, a byproduct of coal combustion, to partly replace cement in the construction sector
Can former building giant CRH boss Albert Manifold bring clarity to struggling BP?
It comes as the energy giant struggles with debt, strategic confusion, and activist investor pressure
Albert Manifold will not indulge sacred cows or ‘box ticking’ as incoming BP chairman
Former CRH boss faces myriad of issues at UK oil major
What do Ireland’s best paid chief executives earn?
Top executives’ average pay package rose by 31 per cent to €4.36m last year
Albert Manifold, Irish cement veteran hired to chair BP for pivot back to oil and gas
Muted market response to former CRH chief’s appointment belies reputation as ‘shrewd operator’ and ‘man on a mission’
BP appoints Irishman Albert Manifold as new chairman
Former CRH chief executive to succeed Helge Lund as chair of the UK oil major
The Irish firms seen as safe from Trump’s planned ‘revenge tax’
Foreign companies operating in the US that are majority owned by US investors would not be affected by the special tax
CRH chair says Irish AGMs still ‘appropriate’ even as holding of meetings overseas is approved
Group CEO Jim Mintern says it’s a matter of “when, not if” CRH joins S&P 500 index in US
CRH sticks to forecasts amid ‘no sign of investment delays’
Group says outlook for its business remains positive
European shares can recapture early 2025 momentum over Wall Street, say analysts
Here’s why: Sixty per cent of European companies’ first-quarter earnings have beaten market expectations
CRH hires New York-based executive Nancy Buese as CFO
Company moved main listing to New York in 2023 with eye on S&P 500
Stock markets are like casinos. Don’t rely on them as a bellwether of tariff impacts
Mobile capital is panicking because, like the rest of us, it does not know what is going to happen next
Greencore boss’s £1.2bn bid ambition a rarity among second-tier Irish plcs these days
Agreement in principle to buy Bakkavor marks a major departure in ambition for the Dublin-based sandwich and ready-meal maker
Iseq defectors forced into eyewatering pay disclosures
Tony Smurfit the latest to see a big bump in his pay package
New CRH chief executive Jim Mintern to earn up to $14.8m this year
Predecessor Albert Manifold received 2024 remuneration package of $13.6m
US-Ireland trade deficit: what is it and what might Donald Trump do about it?
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