Gypsum industry news

US: Roofing products distributor QXO has offered to acquire GMS for US$5bn and said it will proceed with a hostile takeover if GMS rejects or does not engage with the offer by 24 June 2025. In a letter submitting the offer, QXO said that the proffered sum is 27% above GMS's current 60-day volume-weighted average value. Alongside the production of gypsum wallboard, other gypsum products and steel framing, GMS also operates 300 distribution centres.

If the acquisition proceeds, it will bring QXO into the interior building materials production business for the first time. In the roofing distribution segment, it acquired Beacon Roofing Supply for US$11bn earlier in 2025.

Australia: Boral has rejected a proposed US$5/share takeover bid by Seven Group Holdings. The building materials producer received the bid on 10 May 2021 and then rejected it the following day, according to the Financial Review newspaper. Seven Group Holdings started buying shares in Boral in March 2020 and reached a 23% stake in the company by April 2021. Boral has continued a share buy-back programme it commenced in April 2021 as part of its response to the takeover attempt. Sources quoted by the newspaper also expect Boral to work with investment bank Jarden Australia in retaliation to Seven Group Holdings’ actions.