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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001654954-23-005198
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	6-K
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	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			CRH PUBLIC LTD CO
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000849395
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	CEMENT, HYDRAULIC [3241]
		IRS NUMBER:				000000000
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			L2
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

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		FORM TYPE:		6-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-32846
		FILM NUMBER:		23848649

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		STREET 1:		BELGARD CASTLE CLONDALKIN
		CITY:			DUBLIN IRELAND
		STATE:			L2
		ZIP:			22

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		STREET 1:		42 FITZWILLIAM SQUARE
		CITY:			DUBLIN 2
		STATE:			L2
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<DESCRIPTION>TRADING UPDATE - APRIL 2023
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CRH public limited company</font></div>
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Positive start to the year; Q1 sales and EBITDA
ahead</font></font></div>
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Integrated solutions strategy continuing to
deliver</font></font></div>
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$0.2bn acquisitions YTD; strong pipeline of
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$3bn share buyback underway; total buybacks in H1 to be
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Continued progress against industry-leading sustainability
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Strong shareholder support for transition to US primary listing;
EGM to be held on 8 June</font></font></div>
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Expect H1 Group sales, EBITDA &amp; margin to be ahead of prior
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"We had a positive start to the year in a seasonally quiet trading
period. While some adverse weather conditions were experienced in
Q1, sales and EBITDA were ahead, underpinned by the continued
execution of our integrated solutions strategy and further
commercial progress across our markets. Looking ahead, despite some
ongoing macroeconomic uncertainties and an inflationary cost
environment, we expect first-half sales, EBITDA and margin to be
ahead of the prior year period."</font></div>
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Wednesday, 26 April 2023</font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">In
what is a seasonally quiet period for our business, the Group
delivered a positive start to the year with first quarter sales and
EBITDA ahead of the same period last year, driven by the successful
execution of our integrated solutions strategy, resilient
underlying demand, good commercial progress and the strong
contribution from 2022 acquisitions.</font></div>
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Materials Solutions</font></div>
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Americas Materials Solutions sales were 10% ahead of the same
period in 2022, driven by robust pricing which more than offset the
impact of unfavourable weather on activity levels in certain
markets during this seasonally less significant
quarter.</font></div>
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Key Solutions Lines in Brief</font></div>
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sales were 15% ahead driven by good activity levels in the
Northeast and Great Lakes which, together with double-digit price
growth in aggregates and cement, more than offset lower activity
levels due to inclement weather in the West and
South.</font></font></div>
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Solutions:</font><font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman">&#xA0;</font><font style="color: #000000; font-size: 13px">Strong
price progression and good underlying demand in the Northeast and
Great Lakes resulted in sales 7% ahead of Q1 2022, more than
offsetting the negative impact of adverse weather in the West and
South. Backlogs and bidding activity are strong, underpinned by
significant increases in US infrastructure funding at both federal
and state level.</font></font></div>
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<font style="color: #0071BA; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">Americas
Building Solutions</font></div>
<div><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10">&#xA0;</font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
First quarter sales were 22% ahead of the same period in 2022,
reflecting good pricing progress, resilient underlying demand, the
positive contribution from prior year acquisitions and the
continued delivery of our integrated solutions
strategy.</font></div>
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<font style="font-style: italic; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
Key Solutions Lines in Brief</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify; display: table-cell"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px"><font style="color: #0070C0; font-size: 13px">Outdoor Living
Solutions:</font><font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman">&#xA0;</font><font style="color: #000000; font-size: 13px">A
good start to the year with resilient demand, pricing progress and
the contribution from Barrette Outdoor Living resulted in sales 30%
ahead of the first quarter of 2022.</font></font></div>
</div>
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<font style="color: #0070C0; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">&#xA0;</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify; display: table-cell"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px"><font style="color: #0070C0; font-size: 13px">Building &amp; Infrastructure
Solutions:</font><font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman">&#xA0;</font><font style="color: #000000; font-size: 13px">Q1
sales were 9% ahead of a strong prior year comparative as good
commercial management and contributions from 2022 acquisitions
offset a slower start to the construction season due to adverse
weather in certain regions.</font></font></div>
</div>
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<font style="color: #0071BA; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">&#xA0;</font></div>
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<font style="color: #0071BA; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">Europe
Materials Solutions</font></div>
<div><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10">&#xA0;</font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
Like-for-like sales were 6% ahead of the same period in 2022 due to
strong pricing momentum across all products and regions. Activity
levels were impacted by less favourable weather conditions compared
to the same period in 2022. Unfavourable currency translation
effects resulted in total sales 1% behind 2022.</font></div>
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<font style="font-style: italic; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
Key Solutions Lines in Brief</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify; display: table-cell"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px"><font style="color: #0070C0; font-size: 13px">Essential
Materials:</font><font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman">&#xA0;</font><font style="color: #000000; font-size: 13px">Strong
pricing actions across all markets resulted in sales 5% ahead of
the first quarter of 2022. Activity levels were impacted by colder
winter conditions across Europe, lower demand in Ukraine and the
Philippines and subdued residential activity across a number of key
markets.</font><font style="color: #0070C0; font-size: 13px">&#xA0;</font></font></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify; display: table-cell"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px"><font style="color: #0070C0; font-size: 13px">Road
Solutions:</font><font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman">&#xA0;</font><font style="color: #000000; font-size: 13px">Like-for-like
sales for the first quarter were in line with 2022 as pricing
progress in the UK, Ireland and Poland offset lower activity levels
due to adverse weather conditions.&#xA0;</font></font></div>
</div>
</div>
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<font style="color: #0071BA; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">Europe
Building Solutions</font></div>
<div><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10">&#xA0;</font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
First quarter sales were 1% behind the same period in 2022,
reflecting a slower start to the year due to unfavourable weather
and a strong prior year comparative.</font></div>
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<font style="font-style: italic; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
Key Solutions Lines in Brief</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify; display: table-cell"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px"><font style="color: #0070C0; font-size: 13px">Outdoor Living
Solutions:</font><font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman">&#xA0;</font><font style="color: #000000; font-size: 13px">Sales
were 6% behind 2022 as prolonged winter weather impacted demand in
key markets, partly offset by higher pricing.</font></font></div>
</div>
</div>
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Building &amp; Infrastructure Solutions:</font><font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman">&#xA0;</font><font style="color: #000000; font-size: 13px">Good
underlying demand across our markets resulted in first quarter
sales in line with a strong prior year
comparative.</font></font></div>
</div>
</div>
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<font style="color: #0071BA; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
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<font style="color: #0071BA; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">Share
Buyback Programme</font></div>
<div><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10">&#xA0;</font></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px">
<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
During the first quarter, the Group continued its share buyback
programme returning a further $0.3 billion of cash to shareholders.
As announced on 2 March 2023, the Group intends to substantially
increase its share buyback programme through the repurchase of up
to $3 billion of shares over the next 12 months. Consistent with
the Group's disciplined approach to capital allocation, the
increase in our share buyback programme demonstrates our confidence
in the outlook for our business and our continued strong cash
generation, while retaining the financial flexibility to invest in
further growth and value creation opportunities for our
shareholders. An initial tranche of the increased share buyback
programme, for a maximum consideration of $750 million, commenced
on 31 March and will be completed no later than 29 June
2023.</font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
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<font style="color: #0071BA; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">Development
Activity</font></div>
<div><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10">&#xA0;</font></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px">
<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
The Group has spent $0.2 billion on four acquisitions in the year
to date, the largest of which was the acquisition of Ulricehamns
Betong AB in Sweden by Europe Building Solutions, expanding our
precast concrete solutions offering in an attractive
market.</font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
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<font style="color: #0071BA; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">Sustainability</font></div>
<div><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10">&#xA0;</font></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 49px; text-indent: 0px">
<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">We
remain committed to continuously improving our sustainability
performance by providing integrated sustainable solutions for our
customers, advancing circularity and innovating to create a more
sustainable built environment. We recently announced that the
Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) validated our
decarbonisation targets in line with its 1.5&#xB0;C science-based
framework, which equate to a 30% reduction in absolute carbon
emissions by 2030 (from a 2021 base year). This is aligned with our
ambition to be a net-zero business by 2050.</font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
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<font style="color: #0071BA; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">Listing
Considerations</font></div>
<div><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10">&#xA0;</font></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px">
<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
On 2 March 2023, CRH announced that following a review of its
listing structure, the Board had come to the conclusion that it is
in the best interests of our business and our shareholders to
pursue a US primary listing, together with US equity index
inclusion as soon as possible.</font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
North America currently represents approximately 75% of Group
EBITDA and is expected to be a key driver of future growth for CRH.
We believe a US primary listing will bring increased commercial,
operational and acquisition opportunities for our business, further
accelerating our successful integrated solutions strategy and
delivering even higher levels of profitability, returns and cash
for our shareholders.</font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
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<div style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px">
<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
Since the initial announcement, we have engaged extensively with
our shareholders to explain the rationale for our recommendation.
After careful consideration of the feedback received and based on
the strong support indicated by our shareholders, we will now seek
formal approval for the listing change from shareholders at an
Extraordinary General Meeting to be held on 8 June 2023. A notice
convening the meeting, together with an explanation of the
resolutions to be considered, will be included in a Shareholder
Circular which will be distributed to shareholders in advance of
the meeting.</font></div>
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<font style="color: #0071BA; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px">
&#xA0;</font></div>
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<font style="color: #0071BA; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">Trading
Outlook</font></div>
<div><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10">&#xA0;</font></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px">
<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
Looking ahead to our first-half trading performance, in our
Americas segments we expect robust infrastructure demand, good
activity in key non-residential segments, continued pricing
progress and positive contributions from acquisitions. We
anticipate a more challenging backdrop in Europe driven by
continued inflationary pressures and some slowdown in the new-build
residential sector. Overall, assuming normal seasonal weather
patterns and absent any major dislocations in the macroeconomic
environment, we expect Group sales, EBITDA and margin for the first
half of the year to be ahead of 2022 (H1 2022 EBITDA: $2.2
billion), reflecting the continuing strength and resilience of our
integrated solutions strategy.</font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
CRH will report its interim results for the six months ending 30
June on Thursday, 24 August 2023.&#xA0;</font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
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<font style="color: #0071BA; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">Appendix
1</font></div>
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<font style="font-weight: bold; color: #4F81BD; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
Q1 sales change versus 2022</font></div>
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<font style="font-weight: bold; color: #4F81BD; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
Americas Materials Solutions</font></div>
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<font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">&#xA0;</font></div>
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<font style="font-weight: bold; color: #4F81BD; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
Americas Building Solutions</font></div>
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<font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">&#xA0;</font></div>
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<font style="font-weight: bold; color: #4F81BD; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
Europe Materials Solutions</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px">
<font style="font-weight: bold; color: #4F81BD; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
Europe Building Solutions</font></div>
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Group</font></div>
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<font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">Reported
Sales</font></div>
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<font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">+10%</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: center; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px">
<font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">+22%</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: center; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px">
<font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">-1%</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: center; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px">
<font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">-1%</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: center; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px">
<font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">+7%</font></div>
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<font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px"><font style="font-size: 13px">
Like-for-like Sales</font><a name="_ftnref1">
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<div style="text-align: center; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px">
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<div style="text-align: center; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px">
<font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">+2%</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: center; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px">
<font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">+6%</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: center; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px">
<font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">-2%</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: center; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px">
<font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">+5%</font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
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CRH (LSE: CRH, ISE: CRG, NYSE: CRH) is the leading provider of
building materials solutions that build, connect and improve our
world. Employing c.75,800 people at c.3,160 locations in 29
countries, CRH has market leadership positions in both North
America and in Europe. As the essential partner for road and
critical utility infrastructure, commercial building projects and
outdoor living solutions, CRH's unique offering of materials,
products and value-added services helps to deliver a more resilient
and sustainable built environment. A Fortune 500 company, CRH is a
constituent member of the FTSE 100 Index, the EURO STOXX 50 Index,
the ISEQ 20 and the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) Europe.
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results of operations, business, viability and future performance
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limited to the statements under: "Key Highlights", regarding
trading expectations for the first half of the year and transition
to US primary listing; the Chief Executive's quote, regarding
expected first-half sales, EBITDA and margin; "Share Buyback
Programme", regarding the timing and amount of share buybacks;
"Sustainability", regarding the Group's decarbonisation targets and
sustainability performance goals; "Listing Considerations,"
regarding the execution and anticipated benefits of a transition to
a US primary listing and US equity index inclusion; and "Trading
Outlook", regarding trading expectations, including expectations
for weather conditions, the macroeconomic environment, sales
volumes, EBITDA and margin, pricing, infrastructure demand and
market trends.</font></div>
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circumstances that may or may not occur in the future and reflect
the Company's current expectations and assumptions as to such
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developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied
by these forward-looking statements, certain of which are beyond
our control, and which include, among other factors: economic and
financial conditions, including market turbulence, recessionary
pressures, increased interest rates, inflation, price volatility
and/or labour and materials shortages, in various countries and
regions where we operate; the pace of growth in the overall
construction and building materials sector; demand for
infrastructure, residential and non-residential construction in our
geographic markets; increased competition and its impact on prices;
increases in energy and/or raw materials costs; adverse changes to
laws and regulations, including in relation to climate change and
sustainability; the impact of unfavorable weather, including due to
climate change; our ability to successfully develop and integrate
sustainable solutions into our business and investor and/or
consumer sentiment regarding the importance of sustainable
practices and products; approval or allocation of funding for
infrastructure programmes; adverse political developments in
various countries and regions, including acts of terrorism or war,
such as the ongoing geopolitical conflict in Ukraine; failure to
complete or successfully integrate acquisitions; indirect and
direct effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and cyber-attacks,
sabotage or other incidents and their direct or indirect effects on
our business. There are important factors, risks and uncertainties
that could cause actual outcomes and results to be materially
different, including risks and uncertainties relating to CRH
described under "Principal Risks and Uncertainties (Risk Factors)"
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