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Sugar market levelling but growers remain optimistic

17 Mar 10 | DESPITE global sugar price contractions this month, grower confidence and optimism remains high according to peak sugarcane group Canegrowers. | Sugar battles start with bid ... | What's the best row spacing for ...

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Sugar project verging on collapse

12 Mar 10 | ABOUT 80 jobs are at risk in northern NSW's sugar belt as a $220 million clean-power project nears collapse due to problems surrounding the Rudd government's 20 per cent renewable energy target. |

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Sugar battles start with bid for Tully mill

10 Mar 10 | Tully Sugar has moved to stymie Maryborough Sugar's hostile takeover by revealing plans to list on the Australian Securities Exchange and buy the North Queensland milling assets of Bundaberg Sugar, signalling the start of a long-awaited industry consolidation. | Bright Food may up CSR bid | Maryborough sugar coats offer

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CSR switches legal teams for appeal

08 Mar 10 | THE building materials and sugar conglomerate, CSR Ltd, has changed the lawyers advising on its troubled attempt to split into two companies. | Macquarie reckons CSR future is ... | New CSR chief to oversee ...

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Bright Food may up CSR bid

05 Mar 10 | 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 by the end of the year. |

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Maryborough sugar coats offer

04 Mar 10 | Maryborough Sugar Factory has been forced to sweeten its takeover terms for fellow Queensland producer Tully Sugar, offering a cash component to its bid lodged almost seven months ago. | New CSR chief to oversee ... | Buyers get accreditation in ...

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Outlook '10: Shine comes off record sugar prices

03 Mar 10 | THE knee-jerk reaction by some countries to the past year's explosive sugar prices will start to take the shine off what had been the best sugar market for 20 years. | Outlook '10: Dollar a burden on ... | Outlook '10: Exports to drive ... | AUDIO: Outlook 2010: APVMA in Burke's ...

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New CSR chief to oversee internal demerger

25 Feb 10 | CSR will have a new managing director from the start of April. Director Jeremy Sutcliffe will take over to steer it through a structural separation, as well as fend off a potential takeover from Chinese suitor Bright Food Group. | CSR able to appeal on demerger | Macquarie reckons CSR future is ...

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Macquarie reckons CSR future is Bright

24 Feb 10 | MARKET talk that Macquarie will soon be appointed to help Bright Food in its CSR sugar acquisition campaign signal that Brand China is fighting back from damage to its reputation flowing from mismanaged acquisition efforts, outside of the resources sector, in Australia. | CSR able to appeal on demerger | Synergy fertiliser a new option

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CSR keeping its options open on sugar business

12 Feb 10 | CSR still maintains a demerger is the best option for its sugar business but behind the scenes, in tandem with appealing against a negative Federal Court decision, it has been talking to China's Bright Food about a trade sale. | CSR faces new asbestos case | CSR ruling sends govt deep into ...

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CSR ruling sends govt deep into too-hard basket

05 Feb 10 | BURIED deep in the federal government's too hard basket is some unfinished business from the James Hardie asbestos furore in 2004. | Bright Food offer for CSR fades ... | CSR wants Chinese to get serious

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Will CSR now be tempted by Bright Food?

04 Feb 10 | AFTER two years of work and more than 20 years of paying asbestos compensation directly to victims, CSR's hopes of spinning off the sugar business have at the very least been severely delayed. | CSR wants Chinese to get serious | Bright Food offer for CSR fades ...

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Court says no to CSR's $3b demerger

03 Feb 10 | CSR's $3 billion plan to split into two companies has been stopped by the Federal Court because the potential impact on asbestos disease sufferers is "inconsistent with public policy and commercial morality". | CSR wants Chinese to get serious | Bright Food offer for CSR fades ...

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Gloves off as CSR slates demerger critics

03 Feb 10 | CSR has delivered a feisty response to critics of its plan to split into two companies, saying the NSW government had proposed a commercially unacceptable asbestos guarantee, the corporate regulator had overstated the significance of uncertainties inherent in actuarial forecasts, and a fund set up by James Hardie had suggested a legal test which many large demergers approved in the past decade would have failed. | CSR wants Chinese to get serious | Bright Food offer for CSR fades ...

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CSR faces court to get nod for demerger

29 Jan 10 | CSR will finally appear in the Federal Court today to seek approval to spin off its famous sugar division into a separate company by the end of March. | Look on Bright side, investor ... Visit Queensland Country Life

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Bright Food offer for CSR fades away

28 Jan 10 | CHINA'S Bright Food has warned it will not make a revised bid for CSR's sugar business, indicating that hopes of a $1.5 billion sale are dead. | Sugar price rise sweet for ... | Rick sings for his sugar

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CSR wants Chinese to get serious

28 Jan 10 | 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. | QSL denies move aimed at ... | Bright wants talks with CSR ...

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Look on Bright side, investor tells CSR

21 Jan 10 | MAJOR CSR shareholder Guinness Peat Group has criticised the CSR board over its decision not to engage with Chinese suitor Bright Food (Group), which offered $1.5 billion for the company's sugar division. | Bright wants talks with CSR ... | Keeping an eye on Chinese interest

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Clock ticks on Bright bid for CSR

19 Jan 10 | TIME is running out on a request from China's Bright Food Group for talks with CSR to buy its sugar business in a $1.5 billion deal, as both sides claim it is the other's move. | Bright urged to make firm CSR bid Visit Queensland Country Life

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Bright wants talks with CSR over sale

18 Jan 10 | CHINA'S Bright Food Group hopes to talk to CSR this week about its $1.5 billion proposal to acquire the Sydney-based company's sugar business. | CSR faces pressure from China ... | Bright move for CSR sugar

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