Lafarge CEO Olsen out amid pressure from anchor shareholders including Nassef Sawiris

MOVES- Lafarge CEO Eric Olsen will step down in July, reportedly under pressure from three big shareholders with strong opinions about how he should do his job, the Financial Times says. Among those shareholders: Nassef Sawiris. Oddly enough, the FT reports, it was Lafarge’s acquisition of Orascom’s contruction arm in a decade ago that saw the company acquire a presence in Syria that led directly to Olsen’s ouster. Olsen led the post-acquisition integration of Orascom into Larfarge as the group’s head of human resources.