Brussels, 27/05/2016 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 26 May, the European Commission gave its conditional blessing to the planned acquisition of the Italian construction materials group Italcementi by its German competitor HeidelbergCement. This operation, which is worth several billion euros, is therefore subject to HeidelbergCement selling all of Italcementi's activities in Belgium.
The Commission's investigation showed that the companies' activities overlap substantially in Belgium and the...