Crh Requires Little Introduction At The Big Board

With its three-letter signature symbol, the parent company of Oldcastle Materials and Products & Distribution Group, Dublin-based CRH Plc, has begun trading

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With its three-letter signature symbol, the parent company of Oldcastle Materials and Products & Distribution Group, Dublin-based CRH Plc, has begun trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Chairman Liam O’Mahony (second from left) marked the start of exchange trading on April 4 with a ceremonial Opening Bell ringing. The event was a homecoming on two fronts for O’Mahony, who began a North American tour of duty with CRH’s Albany, N.Y., business, Callanan Industries, climbing to the post of Oldcastle Inc. chief executive. Joining him are colleagues (from right) Oldcastle Materials CEO Tom Hill and Oldcastle Products & Distribution CEO Joe McCullough.

CRH is the fourth industry operator to take center NYSE stage in the past 30 months. On October 28, 2003, Rinker Group CEO David Clarke rang the Opening Bell to mark his company’s Big Board trading launch. Four weeks later, in a gesture marking his company’s 20th anniversary for NYSE trading, Lafarge North America CEO Phillipe Rollier sounded the exchange’s closing bell. On April 25, 2005, Kirk Benson, chairman of Headwaters Inc. (Resources, Construction Materials, Eldorado Stone), rang the Opening Bell to mark his company’s first NYSE trading day, following a switch from Nasdaq.