Italcementi sells Set Group to Limak Holding

Italy's Italcementi, the world's No.5 cement maker, has signed a deal to sell a significant portion of its Turkish activities to Limak Holding for 290 million euros.



In a statement on Friday, Italcementi said it would sell Turkey-based Set Group Holding, which generated sales of 130 million euros in 2010.The agreement does not include Afyon Cimento, a Turkish listed group controlled by Italcementi unit Ciments Francais."In future, Italcementi will examine the best industrial or financial opportunities to extract value from this asset," Italcementi said of Afyon Cimento.