由于去年净利润下跌和金融市场危机侵蚀储备，德国亿万富翁Merckle家庭所拥有的水泥制造商，海德堡水泥股份公司，2008年计划红利削减91％。
近日，海德堡公司在一份声明中说。公司提出每股配12欧分（合15.6美分），相比去年为每股1.3欧元。
2008年净利润由20.2亿欧元下降到18.1亿欧元， 其中包括一次性收购汉森公司的4亿欧元费用。2008年销售额增长了30%，达到142亿欧元；运营收入从18.5亿欧元增长到21.5亿欧元，达到了公司的预测。
海德堡公司上个月说，它的目标是在年中完成一项全面的财政修整，并表示公司正在出售资产和寻找投资者。2月份海德堡预计今年销售额和运营利润将下降。今年上半年将是困难的，下半年企业可能有所起色，因为政府计划通过增加基础设施开支刺激经济，而公司的目标是赢得此次基建期间的订单。
Merckle家族深陷债务加上一月份主要股东Adolf Merckle的自杀，使人们对公司的未来发展提出了新的疑问。由于收购汉森，海德堡2007年借款提高了115亿美元。
海德堡水泥去年在法兰克福交易损失了80%，其市场价值削减至25.9亿欧元。近日其股价在法兰克福下跌了1.2%，至20.75欧元。
附英文：
HeidelbergCement Plans 91% Dividend Cut as Net Profit Drops
(Bloomberg) -- HeidelbergCement AG, the cement maker owned by the German billionaire Merckle family, plans to slash its 2008 dividend by 91 percent as net profit last year dropped and the financial market crisis eats into reserves.
The company proposed a payout of 12 cents (15.6 U.S. cents) a share compared with 1.30 euros a share it paid in the prior year, the Heidelberg-based company said in a statement yesterday.
Net profit for 2008 fell to 1.81 billion euros from 2.02 billion euros, including one-time charges of 400 million euros related to the company’s Hanson Plc acquisition. Sales climbed 30 percent to 14.2 billion euros in 2008, while operating earnings increased to 2.15 billion euros from 1.85 billion euros, meeting the company’s own forecasts.
HeidelbergCement last month said it aims to conclude a financial overhaul by midyear and said it is selling businesses and searching for investors. Heidelberg expects sales and operating profit to drop this year, it said in February. The first six months will be difficult, though business may pick up in the second half as the company aims to win orders from government economic programs designed to stimulate economies through increased infrastructure spending.
The suicide of main shareholder Adolf Merckle in January introduced fresh doubt about the company’s future as his family struggles with debt. HeidelbergCement inflated its borrowings in 2007 through the purchase of Hanson for $11.5 billion.
The cement maker has lost 80 percent in Frankfurt trading in the past year, cutting its market value to 2.59 billion euros. The stock fell 1.2 percent to 20.75 euros in Frankfurt yesterday.
