Australia's CSR gets $2.8 billion takeover offer from Saint-Gobain
(Reuters) -Australia's CSR Ltd shares rose a further 5% on Thursday as the building products maker came into play following a A$4.30 billion ($2.81 billion) non-binding takeover proposal from France's Saint-Gobain . The Sydney-based firm said it had received a A$9.0 per share offer from the French group, which represented a premium of 13.2% to CSR's last close. CSR is one of Australia's oldest companies, having been established in 1855, initially as a sugar refining business, before its diversification into building products.