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.