Heidelberger Cement Buy

The stock analysts at SGZ-Bank recommend this week that the share of the building material supplier Heidelberg Cement (WKN 604 700) for sale. Despite a still poor German construction industry - is the domestic sales increased only slightly accordingly - that society can increase its sales in the first half by 10% to 3.64 billion marks for the full year and expect growth of about 6 %.

Thus, I continue the trend of recent years had made in which Heidelberg Cement, despite unfavorable conditions a steady revenue and earnings growth. These relatively positive development was due primarily to the strong regional diversification of the business. While were built because of the critical situation in East Germany, especially in the building materials sector like cement, where significant over-capacity site consolidations and restructuring of the sales were necessary to the business in Western Europe and North America was a very good year. Accordingly, the management put on a further expansion in promising markets.

In addition to building a new plant in the U.S., which would cost as now the biggest single investment about 250 million dollars, would complement involvement in future growth markets of Southeast Asia as well as Romania and Poland's business portfolio. As part of the general market recovery, have the shares of Heidelberger cement AG removed from their annual lows and back to a level above the rates of the year. The support zone formed during the downturn by 140 DM is now a resistance that must first be overcome. The stock specialists SGZ-Bank indicate that the share ownership with a P / E of 13.5 based on the earnings estimates for 1999, a moderate rating, which make them interesting as a long-term investment. In addition, it was likely that the construction sector to recover in the medium term and also contribute to the positive momentum will change in government.

Schwenk Cement KG upgraded SAP solution with

IBM's new store concept from IT infrastructure with mainframes, "TotalStorage DS8100 and DB2 database

The Schwenk cement KG, a leading manufacturer of cement, consumer goods and building materials, has reached a new IT solution significantly reduces the time needed for business-critical processes, such as for order and delivery, Finance, Con-trolling, warehousing and personnel. By installing the new IBM TotalStorage DS8100, "storage systems transaction and batch jobs running up to six times faster than the previous system. Currently, more than 15 million transactions daily.

One goal of swing was to create a central and powerful solution for data management as a "single source of information". Pivoting, turning to the IBM Business Partner Fritz & Macziol to develop a new "information on demand" solution. Here, a configuration based on the IBM mainframe, "eServer z890," is designed to run on the SAP R3 applications and IBM DB2 Universal Database. The server is connected to the DS8100 disk storage system that provides a capacity of 11 terabytes available.

Fritz & Macziol developed the concept for the configuration of the new IT infrastructure. "As the demands of customers rose to its IT systems, we sought a solution that velocities and provides scalability," said Michael Dürr, Account Manager at Fritz & Macziol. (IBM: Fritz & Macziol: ra)

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