The rocky pre-nuptials are over it would appear and the marriage will finally be cemented. Holcim and Lafarge have agreed new terms for their plan to create the world’s largest cement company.<br /><br /> The new agreement will hand the shareholders of Swiss company Holcim a better deal. After intense negotiations the two agreed Lafarge shareholders would now receive nine Holcim shares for every 10 in the French company.<br /><br /> The ratio was one for one when the deal was first unveiled in April last year.<br /><br /> But the two firms have yet to agree who will run the combined entity with sales of more than 30 billion euros.
