Hope Construction Materials was a producer of cement, concrete and aggregates in the United Kingdom, founded on 7 January 2013 by entrepreneur Amit Bhatia.
[1] Due to the size of the venture, the Office of Fair Trading referred it to the UK's Competition Commission, who concluded in May 2012 that, because of the potential loss of competition in the aggregates, asphalt, cement and ready-mix concrete markets, some of their assets should be sold.
[2] In November 2012, Lafarge and Anglo American agreed to sell ~£200 million worth of British assets to Amit Bhatia.
[5] On 18 November 2015, Breedon Aggregates announced the acquisition of Hope Construction Materials for £336 million, and completed the deal on 1 August 2016.
[8] Most of the cement now travels over it in trains hauled by class 20 locomotives[9] to Earles Sidings,[10] where it is taken over by Freightliner.