The good results are mainly due to an increase in sales volume, price fluctuation and supply diversification.

registered the highest increase in sales of all Central and Eastern European countries, followed by (57.5 percent) and (46.6 percent). Lafarge estimates a total 30 percent increase in business in 2007, after an initial 20 percent forecast. The upward revision was due to results obtained in the first half of this year, when the group's sales in soared by 80 percent.

Lafarge's competitors on the cement market are HeidelbergCement () and Holcim (). The three players divide the market almost equally, each having market shares of some 30 percent. The concrete consumption is 334 kg per capita in , compared to 558 kg, the average in European Union member countries.