Australia’s biggest building products maker to buy back shares

Posted on 18 Mar 2015 by Aiden Burgess

Boral, Australia's largest manufacturer of building products, has announced it will be buying back approximately $236m worth of its own shares.

The on-market share buy-back program will buy back up to 5% of the company’s issued capital or approximately 39 million ordinary shares over the next 12 months. The buy-back follows a number of successful transactions in the past 12 months for Boral, which have reduced the building products Group’s net debt and positioned the company…

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