Vicat's first nine months of 2025 show resilient Organic Growth, notably in cement and in the Mediterranean region, while sharp FX impact and a higher leverage target cloud the picture. Solid fundamentals contrast with constrained reported metrics and debt reduction progress.
Published on 11/05/2025
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Vicat specializes in the production and marketing of cement, ready-to-use concrete granulates. Net sales by family of product break down as follows:
- cement (53.5%): 28 Mt sold in 2024;
- ready-to-use concrete and aggregates (38%): 9.4 million m3 of ready-to-use concrete and 22.9 Mt of aggregates sold.
The remaining net sales (8.5%) are from transporting materials and merchandise to large work sites, prefabricated concrete products, and fabrication of building products (glues, coatings, etc.) and paper.
At the end of 2024, the group owns 275 concrete plants, 67 granulate quarries, 17 cement plants, and 5 crushing centers worldwide.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: France (29.8%), Europe (10.6%), Americas (25.9%), Mediterranean (12.8%), Asia (11.3%) and Africa (9.6%).
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