Heidelberg Materials UK is a British-based building materials company, headquartered in Maidenhead. Previously known as Hanson UK, the company has been a subsidiary of the German company HeidelbergCement since August 2007, and was formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange and a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. Originally trading as Wiles Group; the company was transformed into Hanson Trust Ltd by James Hanson and Gordon White in 1964. Over a thirty year period, Hanson pursued a principal strategy of raising shareholder value through a series of acquisitions. Several large businesses were purchased throughout the 1980s, such as the United Drapery Stores in 1983, Imperial Tobacco in 1986 and Kidde in 1987. Some of these acquisitions drew criticism and opposition. During 1991, Hanson Plc attempted its largest-yet acquisition of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), but this was hotly contested and ultimately unsuccessful. More information...
According to PR-model, heidelbergmaterials.co.uk is ranked 748,731st in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 472,280th in English Wikipedia.
The website is placed before uafulucknow.ac.in and after zanjan.gov.ir in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
