Doing Business in Colombia: The Holcim Perspective

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Doing Business in Colombia The Holcim
Perspective
Conference on Why Colombia?

• Zurich, October 25, 2007

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Content

• Holcim Group
• Holcim in Latin America
• Holcim in Colombia
• Operations (Holcim Colombia S.A.)
• Experience
• Expectations
• Final remarks

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Holcim Group

• A global Group with Swiss roots
• Leading global supplier of cement, aggregates,
  ready-mix concrete asphalt
• Founded in 1912. The first cement plant was in
  Holderbank, Switzerland
• As early as the 1920s, Holcim began to invest
  abroad
• Today, the Group operates in more than 70
  countries across all continents and employs some
  90,000 people
• Key principles
• Dual product strategy Cement Aggregates
• Geographical diversification
• Commitment to Sustainable Development
• HR excellence best people, local management,
  multicultural tradition
• Key figures (2006)
• Production capacity cement approx. 200 million t
• Net sales approx. USD 20 billion

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Holcim in Latin America
Consolidated 2006 figures
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Holcim in Colombia Operations(Holcim Colombia,
S.A.)

• Acquisition of 49 in 1969 100 since 1992
• Installed cement capacity 1.5 mio ton/y
• Number of employees 734 people
• Cement market share 14
• Leader in waste disposal (co-processing)
• 2006 key figures
• Cement sold 1.11 mio t
• Aggregates sold 0.73 mio t
• Concrete sold 0.66 mio m3
• Sales USD 132 mio

Holcim Colombia assets
1 Cement plant - Nobsa
2 Aggregates plants Chocontá / Manas
13 Ready Mix Concrete plants Cartagena,
Barranquilla, Bucaramanga, Medellín, Tunja,
Nobsa, Cali Sur, Cali Vía Palmira, Buenaventura,
Puente Aranda, Planta Sur, Chía, Occidente
Fontibón
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Holcim in Colombia Experience

• Political and macroeconomic stability
• Highly qualified personnel
• Strategic location
• Trust of foreign investors
• Cultural attractiveness
• Bureaucracy
• Interventionism
• Taxes
• Security

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Holcim in Colombia Expectations

• Economic growth
• Infrastructure
• Housing
• Tourism
• Environmental improvements
• Water
• Waste disposal
• Enhanced security

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Holcim in Colombia Final remarks

• Reliability / predictability of investment
  environment clearly above Latam average.
• Strong commitment of actual government to tackle
  the countrys most critical issues, with clear
  progress in the last years.
• Good investment opportunities to be caught.
• and Holcim?
• We are pleased with and proud of our investment
  in Colombia.
• Holcim will continue to invest in Colombia (USD
  30 million in 2008).

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Doing Business in Colombia The Holcim
Perspective
Conference on Why Colombia?

• Zurich, October 25, 2007

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Dual Product Strategy Cement and Aggregates
Aggregates
Cement
412 aggregates plants (187,6 mio.t)
152 cement plants (sales 2006 140,7 mio.t)
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RMX
1062 RMX plants (44,2 mio.m3) 118 asphalt plants
(15,3 mio.t)
2006 figures