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CRH, the Irish building materials group, is nearing a deal to acquire Arcosa, a Dallas-based construction firm with a market capitalisation of almost $7 billion.
If completed, the transaction would be the largest purchase CRH has ever made — a threshold that matters precisely because the company has spent decades assembling its global position through acquisitions.
Construction The almost $7 billion market capitalisation of Arcosa sets the scale of what CRH is prepared to spend.
That figure places this deal in a different category from anything CRH has done before, and it reflects a deliberate strategic choice rather than opportunistic deal-making.
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