These days the super-investor's admiration for Wall Street's most powerful firm, cemented by an investment during the recent crisis, puts him in a minority and one that shrank further when, on April 16th, the Securities and Exchange Commission SECC) accused Goldman and one of its employees of fraudulently misrepresenting structured instruments tied to subprime mortgages.
That stigma of buyout firms, cemented during the RJR Nabisco spectacle of the late 1980s, is one that Carey and Morris don't subscribe to, which helped in getting Schwarzman and Blackstone to participate in their book.
Listed firm Prism Cement, which is expanding capacity, has a joint venture with Australia's QBE in general insurance.
A subsequent ban on foreign firms importing cement unless they also set up plants in Nigeria encouraged Dangote itself to go into production.
Sadly, part of the stone restorer's work today is making good previous, botched repairs; from the early 1900s into the 1970s, many stonemasonry firms used cement to carry out repairs.
Consensys is tackling dozens of the most foundational issues in crypto: educating law and policy makers, collaborating with law firms to cement legal foundations, investing in outside projects through a venture fund, and building dozens of ambitious projects internally across the spectrum: identity, decentralized exchanges, power grid, and more.
Peru's Brescia family own Chile's biggest cement firm.
Cemex, an innovative Mexican cement firm, employs thousands of poor Mexicans.
Two weeks ago Lafarge, a big cement firm, agreed to be bought by a Swiss competitor.
Last year the first sukuk from Africa was issued by a Sudanese cement firm.
