CRH, the Irish building materials group, has announced it spent €400m on acquisitions and investments in the second half of 2011. The total spend for 2011 was €600m.
In an update on its acquisition activities in the second half of last year, the company said the biggest investment came in its Europe Materials division which spent €195m including a deal to boost its cement grinding capacity in Belgium.
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