Please answer the following question: Hanson plc (formerly Hanson Trust plc) is a British-based international building materials company headquartered in Maidenhead. Traded on the London Stock Exchange and a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index for many years the company was acquired by a division of German rival HeidelbergCement in August 2007. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Company