Lafarge Africa Appoints New Managing Director/CEO

Lafarge Africa Plc has notified the Nigerian Stock Exchange that its Board met on Wednesday 15 July 2015 and appointed Mr. Peter Hoddinott as the new Group Managing Director/CEO.

According to the Company, the former Group Managing Director/CEO, Mr. Guillaume Roux, will remain on the Board as a Director.

Mr. Peter is a British Mining Engineer and spent his early career in the mines of Southern Africa before joining the cement industry, Blue Circle in 1988. Prior to this appointment he worked as a lecturer in Imperial College of Science and Technology, London University from 1983 to 1988.