History
The company was founded in 1949, privatized in 1957, nationalized in 1973, and was the first large state-owned company to be privatized (or re-privatized, as it were), in 1994. Chilanga Cement was the first company to be listed on the Lusaka Stock Exchange, in 1995.
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