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LafargeHolcim CEO latest victim of non-compliance
LafargeHolcim CEO Eric Olsen will resign on 15 July this year, in response to the company’s enquiry into the conduct of its Syrian subsidiary between 2010 and September 2014, in which the subsidiary did business with terrorists who had taken control of the territory surrounding the LafargeHolcim’s cement plant.
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