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Why bids are flying for Australia’s overlooked building materials groups

M&A is all about confidence – and the players with $10 billion in bids for Australia’s building materials companies are full of it.

B-Mat’s been more like hazmat for deal makers for the past decade.

Every year, investment bankers would try to get excited about the building materials sector, only to find it too hard.

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Anthony Macdonald is a Chanticleer columnist. He is a former Street Talk co-editor and has 10 years' experience as a business journalist and worked at PwC, auditing and advising financial services companies. Connect with Anthony on Twitter. Email Anthony at a.macdonald@afr.com

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