in assets in North America to focus on the core Australian business, which has been battling falling profits as fuel costs jump and wet weather causes construction disruptions.under the “Project Next” banner, where it worked with consulting group PwC to prune hundreds of jobs.Boral set up the Found Concrete marketplace business when it partnered with Fusion Labs to develop the platform technology. Fusion Labs is now part of Deloitte. Boral owns 100 per cent of Found Concrete.
“Concrete is a last-minute order,” he said. Once concrete is in a truck it needs to be delivered and poured within an hour or two.Trades people and building company operators traditionally made phone calls to order concrete but now were increasingly using the digital marketplace set up by Found Concrete. “It’s been a real shift,” he said.
He said Found Concrete wanted to go national and have a presence in all major markets around Australia. Now that it was accelerating in a rapid scale-up phase, where volume growth, customer acquisition and customer retention were the focus, it was better off in the hands of a new owner, he said.by December, to be replaced by Vik Bansal, chief executive of steel company InfraBuild.in the wake of bullying allegations.