Cemex included in the Fortune 2017 Change the World list
Published by Jonathan Rowland,
Editor
World Cement,
Cemex has been included in the Fortune 2017 Change the World List, which highlights 50 companies worldwide that have had a positive social impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies. It is the second time the Mexico-based building materials company has been included in the ranking.
The list highlighted Cemex’s ‘Growing’ platform, which encompasses the company’s social and inclusive businesses, such as Construyo Contigo (Building Together), ConstruApoyo, Yo Construyo (I Build), and Clean Cookstoves.
These initiatives allow the company” work across our value chain with governments, micro-finance entities, low-income communities, and social entrepreneurs to build of 4 million m2 of livable space,” said Fernando A. Gonzalez, CEO of CEMEX.
According to the company, by 2016, the Growing platform has provided affordable housing to over 3 million people in Latin America.
These initiatives go “beyond self construction”, however, said the company in a press release, enabling it to help “fight poverty, low-quality education, unhealthy homes, unemployment, lack of capabilities, poor access to financial aid, and lack of civic participation.”
Read the article online at: https://www.worldcement.com/the-americas/18092017/cemex-included-in-the-fortune-2017-change-the-world-list/
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