Introduction CRS Ltd is a company that engages in the manufacturing business. Its operations are carried out in all over Australia. In addition to operating in Australia, the company also operates in such regions as Asia and New Zealand. The most important activities that this company currently engages in are raw sugar milling from the sugarcane and the production of ethanol. The company also is involved in the production of “refined sugar products” and it also distributes these products in New Zealand and Australia CSR Ltd., 2011, p.1). In addition to these, the CSR Ltd Company is also involved in the manufacturing and distribution of building products. The company’s basic business segments include “sugar, building products, aluminium and property” (CSR Ltd., 2011, p.1). This company has been seen to keenly engage in various business operations in an effort to increase value for its shareholders. For instance; in the year 2006 during the month of December, CSR Ltd Company got involved in the acquisition of “Fricker Ceiling Systems” (CSR Ltd., 2011). “Fricker Ceiling Systems is a supplier of suspended ceilings to the Sydney commercial building market” (CSR Ltd., 2011, p.1). In the year that followed (2007), the company engaged in the acquisition of “Don Mathieson & Staff Glass Pty Ltd”. Last year (2010), CSR Ltd realized completion of selling sucrose to another company known as Wilmar International Ltd. (Sucrogen Ltd, 2010). These are just among a few efforts that have been carried out by the CSR Ltd Company in an attempt to improve its performance. These are among the company’s several operations that it engages in. In this report, there is going to be consideration of the company’s brief history which will serve to offer the background information for the discussion in the subsequent sections. The various moves that have been undertaken by this company to improve its performance are going to be considered in this report. More so, the financial performance of the CSR Ltd Company is also going to be looked at in order to determine whether or not the company that is trying to survive and having many options available. The Company’s Brief History CSR limited is a publicly traded company on the ASX. The company has a total of about ten thousand employees, basing on the 2009 figures. The company commenced its operations in the year 1855 in Sidney where it was financed as the “Colonial Sugar Refining Company”. It began by refining raw sugar that was imported and in the course of the 1870s; it expanded its operations in to the market of Melbourne. In the course of the two decades that followed, the company engaged in the establishment of mills in Fiji and also in Queensland. These mills commenced on the processing of the sugar which was grown locally. Later on in time, there was signing of an agreement between CSR and the state government of Queensland for the CSR Company to engage in refining all the state of Queensland’s sugar production. This would turn out to be a monopoly that went on until the year 1989 (Funding Universe, 2001). In the current times, the production of the “refined sugar products” for the current retail market is jointly carried out by CSR and