Boral
Type	Public, listed on ASX
Founded	Australia (March 4, 1946)
Headquarters	Sydney, Australia
Key people	Rod Pearse, CEO & Managing Director Ken Barton, CFO
Industry	Building and Construction Materials
Revenue	$4.35 billion AUD (2005)
Employees	15,000+ (2005)
Website	www.boral.com.au

Boral ASX: BLD is a multinational company dealing in building and construction materials. Founded in Australia, it also has extensive operations in the USA and Asia. Boral was demerged from the 'old' Boral Limited in February 2000. The 'old' Boral Limited, comprising energy assets, was renamed Origin Energy. The spin-off assets, comprising building and construction materials, became the 'new' Boral Limited. Boral and Origin Energy are now separately listed companies on the Australian Stock Exchange and are entirely independent of one another. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... A public company usually refers to a company which is permitted to offer its securities (stock, bonds, etc. ... The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is the primary stock exchange in Australia. ... March 4 is the 63rd day of the year (64th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of over 4,200,000 people, and 151,920 within the city centre. ... Revenue is a U.S. business term for the amount of money that a company earns from its activities in a given period, mostly from sales of products and/or services to customers. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... ISO 4217 Code AUD User(s) Australia, Kiribati, Nauru, Tuvalu, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Norfolk Island Inflation 3. ... For the album by the Kaiser Chiefs see Employment (album) Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... A Web site (or colloquially, Website) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible via HTTP... The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is the primary stock exchange in Australia. ... The word multinational can refer to: A Multinational corporation A Multinational State This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... Look up company in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... World map showing the location of Asia. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Origin Energy logo Origin Energy ASX: ORG is an Australian gas and electricity company. ... The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is the primary stock exchange in Australia. ...

The 'old' Boral began as an oil and bitumen refining company under the name of Bitumen and Oil Refining Australia Limited. It later changed its name to Boral Limited using the acronym of the company's name.

Boral has changed its core business since its inception, and now has a diverse area of operations within the building industry, including asphalt, road line marking, concrete, plasterboard, timber, windows, quarry, transport, roof tiles, bricks and pavers. Boral also produces cement via Blue Circle Southern Cement.

Today Boral has built itself into a multinational company, with operations in Australia, Indonesia and the United States, with its headquarters located in Sydney, Australia, and also supported from the company's establishment at Prospect, New South Wales, Australia. Prospect is a suburb in the City of Blacktown, in Western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ...

Sources

Boral Homepage

2005 Annual Reports