CSR

Bright set to sweeten bid for CSR's sugar

China's Bright Food is set to sweeten its offer to buy CSR’s sugar business and hopes to complete the deal by the end of the year.

Bright Food may up CSR bid

Eli Greenblat Twice-spurned Chinese suitor Bright Food Group says it will sweeten its $1.5 billion offer for CSR's sugar assets in the hope of wrapping up a deal this year.

CSR left bearing the cost of unfinished business

Elisabeth Sexton Buried deep in the federal government's too hard basket is some unfinished business from the James Hardie asbestos furore in 2004.

CSR board in rethink on demerger

Eli Greenblat Directors of CSR will meet as early as Monday to patch together their splintered business strategy after shock decision by Federal Court to block the conglomerate's demerger.

Bright Food may have learned CSR lessons

David Symons Rumours that Macquarie will soon be appointed to help Bright Food in its CSR sugar acquisition campaign signal that Brand China is fighting back from reputational damage flowing from mismanaged...

CSR skids after court block

Eli Greenblat Shares in CSR sink more than 10% as investors react to yesterday's court ruling blocking its demerger plans.

CSR MD keeps to retirement schedule

CSR Ltd says managing director Jerry Maycock will retire from the company at the end of its fiscal year on March 31.

CSR chief retires, leaves demerger to successor

Eli Greenblat CSR managing director Jerry Maycock won’t hang around to pilot the conglomerate’s troubled demerger strategy after a decision to retire next month.

History was against CSR on asbestos

Malcolm Maiden Federal Court judge Margaret Stone's decision to throw out CSR's split application has been called a surprise.

Asbestos ghost spooks court from CSR split

Elisabeth Sexton The spirit of the late Justice Kim Santow hovered over Court 22B in the Federal Court in Sydney yesterday.

New CSR chief to oversee internal demerger

Eli Greenblat Jeremy Sutcliffe will take over as managing director of CSR from the start of April and steer it through a structural separation, as well as fend off Bright Food Group.

CSR has to revisit the other options

Elizabeth Knight The board of CSR was naive to think that it would be able to slip under the radar with this corporate restructure.

CSR bid for shareholder vote rejected

CSR Ltd's court application to put its sugar demerger plans to shareholder vote has been dismissed.

Court stops CSR's $3b demerger

Elisabeth Sexton CSR's $3b plan to split has been stopped by the Federal Court because of the potential impact on asbestos disease sufferers.

CSR wants Chinese to get serious

Philip Hopkins CSR has warmed to the $1.5 billion offer by Bright Food Group to buy CSR's local sugar and renewable energy assets, but advised the Chinese predator to get serious.

CSR faces pressure on two fronts

Eli Greenblat CSR and the corporate regulator will square off in the Federal Court tomorrow over the planned demerger of the company's $3 billion sugar, energy and building materials businesses.

CSR, ASIC court hearing adjourned

The first federal court hearing relating to the corporate watchdog's scrutiny of CSR Ltd's asbestos liability provisions has been adjourned until next week.

China goes sweet on CSR with $1.5b offer

Eli Greenblat Bright Food Group has made a $1.5 billion offer to buy CSR's local sugar and renewable energy assets, potentially disrupting the conglomerate's planned demerger.