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How a global giant plans to get bang for its buck at CSR
One of the ASX’s oldest companies, CSR, went out with a bang; now the games start over. This is how Saint-Gobain plans to make it in Australia.
Gyprock-maker CSR is used to scrapping with Australian and offshore competitors for domestic market share. Now it is part of a whole new competition: brand-new owner Saint-Gobain’s internal Olympics.
Saint-Gobain has CSR-sized businesses in more than a dozen countries. Its “multi-local” organisational structure gives local management teams – CSR’s new boss Paul Dalton, for example – keys to all of Saint-Gobain’s different product lines, and puts them in charge of their own P&L.
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