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Boral (BLD), one of the leading building and construction material manufacturer and wholesaler with key operations located in Australia, Asia and the United States has remodeled its key businesses and identified a number of non-core assets for sale. The company is currently seeking to raise as much as $490 million in an attempt to boost up its growth and strengthen up the balance sheet.

Nufarm (NUF), a company that manufactures and supplies various types of agricultural chemicals have posted a shocking $105 million worth of drop in its first-half earnings on Tuesday. The company came up with the announcement just before the investors were about to cast their votes on the fractional takeover from Japan based Sumitomo Chemical.

Roger Corbett, the chairman of Fairfax Media (FXJ) stated that despite the board of the company is currently very much effective and satisfied; the reconstruction of the company is not going to be complete until it includes another director in the team who has in good experience about the media.

Ansell (ANN), an Australia based company that operates in the gloves and other protective product industry was the best performer of the week in ASX100 with a gain of 11.6 percent or $1.20 closing the week at $11.52 (market capitalisation: $1560 million).