Police have released video of the moment officers were attacked with bricks after they stopped two men in car in Kirby, Merseyside. The dashboard camera shows a Volvo estate being pulled over by ...

Germany's HeidelbergCement AG says it is selling its North American and British brick and concrete pipe business, Hanson Building Products, to an American affiliate of investor Lone Star Funds in a ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Brick maker Forterra, previously known as Hanson's UK building products division, said on Tuesday it would float in London next month, aiming to capitalise on demand from house ...

British brick making giant Wienerberger today appeared to have won a lengthy takeover tussle for smaller UK rival Baggeridge. Wienerberger, the world’s largest brick maker and top three player in the ...

Adding bricks: British building-materials concern Hanson PLC said it agreed to buy the brick operations of Jannock Ltd., a Canadian building-products concern, for about $257 million. Jannock’s North ...

Britain’s 2 billion-pound ($2.8 billion) brick-making industry may shrink by half during the recession as producers face a homebuilding crash and a pile of 1 billion unsold bricks. “Activity has just ...