Editing Cemex (section)

{{Short description|Mexican multinational building materials company}}
{{Infobox company
| name = CEMEX S.A.B. de C.V.
| image = 
| logo = Cemex_logo_2023.png
| logo_size = 250px
| type = [[S.A. (corporation)|Sociedad Anónima Bursátil de Capital Variable]]
| traded_as = {{BMV|CEMEX|5203}}<br />{{NYSE|CX}}<<br/> {{Pse|CHP}}
| foundation = {{start date and age|1906|df=yes}}
| founder = Lorenzo Zambrano Gutierrez
| location = [[Monterrey]], [[Nuevo León]], [[Mexico]]
| industry = [[Building materials]]
| area_served = Worldwide
| key_people = Rogelio Zambrano Lozano<br>{{small|(Executive Chairman)}}<br>Jaime Muguiro<br>{{small|(CEO)}}
| num_employees = 41,000+
| products = Cement, ready-mix concrete, and construction aggregates
| revenue = {{decrease}} US$ 13 billion <small>(2020)</small>
| net_income = {{decrease}} (US$ 1.47 billion) <small>(2020)</small>
| assets = {{decrease}} US$ 27.4 billion <small>(2020)</small>
| homepage = [http://www.cemex.com/ www.cemex.com]
}}
'''CEMEX S.A.B. de C.V.''', known as '''Cemex''', is a Mexican [[Multinational corporation|multinational]] building materials company headquartered in [[San Pedro Garza García|San Pedro]], near [[Monterrey]], [[Nuevo León]], [[Mexico]]. It manufactures and distributes [[cement]], [[ready-mix concrete]] and [[construction aggregate|aggregates]] in more than 50 countries. In 2020 it was ranked as the 5th largest cement company (by amount of cement produced annually) in the world, at 87.09 million tonnes.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-05-11|title=Top 10 Cement Companies in the World 2020 {{!}} Global Cement Industry|url=https://blog.bizvibe.com/blog/top-10-cement-companies-world|access-date=2021-07-30|website=Bizvibe Blog|language=en-US}}</ref>

[[Lorenzo Zambrano]] was the chairman and [[chief executive officer]] until his death on May 21, 2014. The Board of Directors named Rogelio Zambrano Lozano as chairman, and Fernando A. Gonzalez as CEO.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mexico's Cemex names new CEO, board chairman|website=[[Associated Press]]|date=16 May 2014 |url=https://apnews.com/article/bceaa3e6dfa847db8022546473db14bd}}</ref>

About a quarter of the company's sales come from its Mexico operations, a third from its plants in the U.S., 30% from its operations in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Asia, and the rest from its other plants around the world.<ref>{{Cite web|title=U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission|url=https://sec.report/Document/0001193125-21-129260/#rom45023_11}}</ref>

[[File:Cemex.JPG|thumb|right|Cemex ready-mix truck departing jobsite after dispensing concrete for a multi-storey residential project in Villahermosa, Mexico]]
CEMEX currently operates on four continents, with 64 cement plants, 1,348 ready-mix-concrete facilities, 246 quarries, 269 distribution centers and 68 marine terminals.<ref>{{Cite web|title=CEMEX Integrated Report|url=https://www.cemex.com/documents/20143/52528892/IntegratedReport2020.pdf/d7d4abda-2ddd-0809-8902-b09af5114bba|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210326143954/https://www.cemex.com/documents/20143/52528892/IntegratedReport2020.pdf/d7d4abda-2ddd-0809-8902-b09af5114bba |archive-date=2021-03-26 }}</ref>

In the 2021 [[Forbes Global 2000]], Cemex was ranked as the 1178th -largest public company in the world with over US$13 billion in annual sales.<ref>{{cite web|title=Forbes Global 2000|website=[[Forbes]]|url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/global2000/#592eb9cc5ac0|url-status=live|access-date=31 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513204015/https://www.forbes.com/lists/global2000/ |archive-date=2021-05-13 }}</ref>

The company's world [[headquarters]] are in San Pedro Garza García, a city that is part of the Monterrey metropolitan area in the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León.
<ref name="cemex.com">[http://www.cemex.com/ic/ic_faqs.asp Corporate World Headquarters - Company's website] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090220115713/http://www.cemex.com/ic/ic_faqs.asp |date=February 20, 2009 }} Retrieved February 10, 2009.</ref><ref name="Company 2009">[http://www.cemex.com/gl/gl_cu.asp Corporate Headquarters according to Company's Website world locations map] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207000920/http://www.cemex.com/gl/gl_cu.asp |date=February 7, 2009 }} Retrieved February 10, 2009.</ref><ref name="allbusiness.com">[http://www.allbusiness.com/business-planning-structures/business-structures/330911-1.html The headquarters remain in the bustling Mexican industrial city of ][[Monterrey, Mexico]], 140 miles south of the Texas border Retrieved February 10, 2009.</ref><ref name="linkedin.com">[http://www.linkedin.com/companies/cemex Cemex Corporate World Headquarters situated in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico, per Linkedin] Retrieved February 10, 2009.</ref>