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Holcim: History, Companies & Regions

Holcim is a Swiss-based global building materials and aggregates flagship division of the Holcim Group. The original company was merged on 10 July 2015 with Lafarge to form LafargeHolcim as the new company and renamed to Holcim Group in 2021. The Holcim brand remained active within the group when the merger was completed.

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Holcim topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Companies and Regions as prominent areas in the source structure around Holcim.

Related topics
21
Source areas
2
Connected nodes
23
Extracted relationships
65
Related term clusters
14
Bridge connections
23

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History · 13 topics
Overview · 8 topics

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Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Founded
1912; 114 years ago (1912)
Industry
Building materials
Headquarters
Zug, Switzerland
Key people
Miljan Gutovic (CEO) · Kim Fausing (chairman)
Net income
CHF 3.176 billion (2023)
Number of employees
63,448 (2023)

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Overview

History

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Advanced semantic analysis

How Holcim connects Entity context

The extracted context around Holcim shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Holcim → Aargau, Aargauische Portlandcementfabrik Holderbank-Wildegg, Adolf Gygi, Belgium, Canton, Egypt, Ernst, Ernst Jr, Ernst Schmidheiny, France, Germany, Holderbank, Lebanon, Lenzburg, Max, Netherlands, Positions, Rheintalischen Cementfabrik Rüthi, Schmidheiny, South Africa Another extracted example is Holcim → Asia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Europe, Globally, Holcim Apasco, Holcim UK, India, Lafarge, Latin America, Mexico, Slovakia, Subsidiaries, Switzerland, UK, Zug. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Holcim

Top relations

related to Foundation and development · 21
Holcim → Aargau, Aargauische Portlandcementfabrik Holderbank-Wildegg, Adolf Gygi, Belgium, Canton, Egypt, Ernst, Ernst Jr, Ernst Schmidheiny, France, Germany, Holderbank, Lebanon, Lenzburg, Max, Netherlands, Positions, Rheintalischen Cementfabrik Rüthi, Schmidheiny, South Africa
related to overview · 16
Holcim → Asia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Europe, Globally, Holcim Apasco, Holcim UK, India, Lafarge, Latin America, Mexico, Slovakia, Subsidiaries, Switzerland, UK, Zug
related to Merger with Lafarge · 12
Holcim → Analysts, Anhui Conch, April, Bruno Lafont, Executives, Holcim's Wolfgang Reitzle, Holders, June, Lafarge, Lafarge Chief Executive Officer, Switzerland, US
Key people · 2
Holcim → Kim Fausing (chairman), Miljan Gutovic (CEO)
is a · 2
Holcim → cement market leader in Australia, Swiss-based global building materials and aggregates flagship division of the Holcim Group
Founded · 1
Holcim → 1912; 114 years ago (1912)
Headquarters · 1
Holcim → Zug, Switzerland
Industry · 1
Holcim → Building materials
Net income · 1
Holcim → CHF 3.176 billion (2023)
Number of employees · 1
Holcim → 63,448 (2023)

Important terminology

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Important terminology

company cement lafarge holderbank companies expanded merger materials group billion switzerland america two 2024 building business schmidheiny largest latin 2014

Holcim relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 65 structured relationships around Holcim. Examples in this analysis include Holcim → Founded → 1912; 114 years ago (1912) and Holcim → Headquarters → Zug, Switzerland. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
HolcimFounded1912; 114 years ago (1912)1.00infobox
HolcimHeadquartersZug, Switzerland1.00infobox
HolcimIndustryBuilding materials1.00infobox
HolcimKey peopleMiljan Gutovic (CEO)1.00infobox
HolcimKey peopleKim Fausing (chairman)1.00infobox
HolcimNet incomeCHF 3.176 billion (2023)1.00infobox
HolcimNumber of employees63,448 (2023)1.00infobox
HolcimOperating incomeCHF 4.577 billion (2023)1.00infobox
HolcimParentHolcim Group1.00infobox
HolcimProductsCement, construction aggregate, concrete1.00infobox
HolcimRevenueCHF 16.3 billion (2024)1.00infobox
HolcimTotal assetsCHF 52.69 billion (end 2023)1.00infobox
HolcimTotal equityCHF 26.78 billion (end 2023)1.00infobox
HolcimTypeDivision1.00infobox
Holcimis aSwiss-based global building materials and aggregates flagship division of the Holcim Group0.90text
Holcimis acement market leader in Australia0.90text

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Holcim bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Lafarge, Announced and Merger. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Holcim
    • Lafarge
    • Announced
    • Merger
    • Cement
    • Group
    • Billion
    • Largest
    • Materials
    • Founded
    • Worldwide
    • Market
    • Would
  • holcim
    • Lafarge
    • Announced
    • Merger
    • Cement
    • Group
    • Billion
    • Largest
    • Materials
    • Founded
    • Worldwide
    • Market
    • Would
  • holcim group
    • Lafarge
    • Materials
    • Industry
    • New
    • Billion
    • Merger
    • Announced
    • Cement
    • Group
    • Holcim
    • Concrete
    • Founded
  • associated cement companies
    • Largest
    • Switzerland
    • Concrete
    • Lafarge
    • Worldwide
    • Holcim
    • Latin
    • Market
    • Billion
    • Two
    • Business
    • Materials
  • cement
    • Largest
    • Switzerland
    • Concrete
    • Lafarge
    • Worldwide
    • Holcim
    • Latin
    • Market
    • Two
    • Billion
    • Business
    • Materials
  • huaxin cement
    • Largest
    • Switzerland
    • Concrete
    • Lafarge
    • Worldwide
    • Holcim
    • Latin
    • Market
    • Two
    • Billion
    • Business
    • Materials
  • building materials
    • Materials
    • Group
    • Concrete
    • Industry
    • Billion
    • Business
    • Construction
    • Cement
    • Founded
    • Worldwide
    • New
    • France
  • energy-efficient building
    • Materials
    • Group
    • Concrete
    • Industry
    • Billion
    • Business
    • Cement
    • Founded
    • Worldwide
    • New
    • Construction
    • Switzerland

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Holcim, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Holcim with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Holcim — History · splits 10 ⟂ 14
Holcim — Overview · splits 15 ⟂ 9

Map overview Semantic statistics

Holcim

Nodes24
Edges23
Triples65
Avg. degree1.92
Density0.083333
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Holcim to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Companies & Regions, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Holcim · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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