Adbri produces cement, concrete, lime and aggregates under its own name in Australia. CRH and the Barro Group jointly took the company private under a Scheme of Arrangement that completed on 1 July 2024, with CRH acquiring the 57% of Adbri's ordinary shares not already owned by Barro; CRH's own announcement called Adbri "an attractive business with high-quality assets and leading market positions" that complements CRH's existing Australian cement, concrete and aggregates operations. Adbri continues to trade under its own name rather than being absorbed into a CRH-branded operating company.
What CRH's annual report says about Adbri
Sentences about Adbri from CRH's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
We also completed nine acquisitions in our International Solutions segment for a total 2024 spend of $1.2 billion, including the acquisition of a majority stake in Adbri, a market leader in cement and aggregates in Australia.
On July 1, 2024, the Company acquired 57 % of the issued share capital of Adbri (the 'Adbri' acquisition), a construction materials business in Australia, for a total cash consideration, net of cash acquired, of $ 787 million.
Australian (AUD) Debt: In July 2024, the Company acquired Adbri which had committed credit agreements with a range of banks and credit institutions totaling $ 0.6 billion (AUD 0.9 billion).
How often CRH names Adbri in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
CRH is a publicly listed company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, founded in 1970. Brandtree records 8 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: CRH and LSE: CRH.
CRH is an Ireland-incorporated building materials group formed in 1970 by the merger of Cement Limited and Roadstone Limited. It moved its primary stock listing from the London Stock Exchange to the New York Stock Exchange in September 2023 and now files annual reports with the SEC on Form 10-K. CRH describes itself as the leading provider of building materials solutions in North America and Europe, employing around 78,500 people at roughly 3,390 operating locations across 28 countries, spanning cement, aggregates, ready-mixed concrete, asphalt and architectural/outdoor-living products.
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 228 brands that began in Australia.
72 of them (32%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Adbri among them.
CRH completed a Scheme of Arrangement to acquire the 57% of Adbri Limited’s ordinary shares it did not already own, alongside the Barro Group, which retained its own stake. This is a majority-stake transaction, not a full takeover: CRH and Barro together control Adbri, an Australian cement, lime and concrete products group, but CRH itself holds only the 57% stake acquired under the Scheme. The Scheme was approved by Adbri’s independent shareholders on 12 June 2024, received Court approval on 14 June 2024, and completed on 1 July 2024. Neither party disclosed the transaction value.
The parent company of Adbri is CRH, a publicly listed company headquartered in Ireland.
Is Adbri Australian or Irish?
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Adbri originated in Australia, but it is owned today by CRH, which is headquartered in Ireland. So Adbri is an Australian-origin brand under Irish ownership.
When did CRH buy Adbri?
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CRH completed its acquisition of Adbri on 1 July 2024. The price was not disclosed.
Is Adbri still owned by CRH?
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Yes. As of 29 October 2026, Adbri is still owned by CRH (57% stake). The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (3) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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