Sustainable Construction firm Lafarge place 750Million Euro Security

Today Lafarge (Paris:LG) placed, under its EMTN1 program, a EUR750 million bond with a 7-year and 5-month maturity and fixed annual coupon of 7.625%.
With this transaction, the Group pursues its optimization of the maturity profile of the Group’s debt, refinancing shorter term bank facilities.
The settlement and issue of the bond is expected on June 24. [...]

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The American Institute of Architects (AIA) 2009 National Convention and Design Exposition concluded with a theme presentation with thirteen-person panel discussing contemporary architecture. Other keynote presentations focused on design and global practice, and firm diversity.
The convention attracted 22,400 registrants, and over 900 exhibitors. In addition, more than 10,000 virtual convention seminars were accessed via [...]

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