Gary Kleyn

NATIONAL resources engineering services contractor Monadelphous has recorded its seventh straight interim profit increase.

HEGNEY Property Valuations has announced its intention to expand into the South West by opening an office in Margaret River servicing Bunbury through to Augusta.

THE Perth property market will continue to improve until 2002 on the back of improved outlooks for the resource and export sectors according to a report by Westpac.

ONE of Margaret River’s founding wineries, Leeuwin Estate, recently celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of its first planting of vines.

ANSETT Australia is planning to set up a 260-seat call centre in Joondalup.

SHADY Hills, a 369 hectare property in Bullsbrook, is for sale for $4.85 million.

SUPERANNUATION funds with fewer than five members have to make a choice concerning fund structure before 31 March.

THE South West, along with the rest of the state, will benefit from a $1.5 million WA Government training strategy, Employment and Training Minister Mike Board told attendees at the launch in Bunbury.

SOME government departments and agencies need to lift their game and rise to the challenge of being more transparent in the face of increased public scrutiny.

THE new home building boom in WA, which began twelve months ago, shows no signs of slowing according to new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

MORE than $1.1 billion in private tourism projects are earmarked for development across WA, according to a new WA Tourism Commission report.

DEVELOPMENTS will be considered on their merits under the new land use plan which will launch the City of Bunbury into the 21st Century says Mayor John Castrilli.

THE SKY Biz 2000 scheme has been singled out by the Ministry of Fair Trading as possibly being in breach of WA’s Fair Trading Act.

PERTH property owners who have not licensed their non-residential parking space will face fines of up to $5,000 in a crackdown under the new Perth Parking Management Act.

FARMERS are being told to watch out for a marketing scheme being offered to wheat belt farmers wanting to sell up.

THE outlook for the South West is terrific provided the life support in the form of the forestry industry does not endure further attacks.

NON-executive directors need a pay rise, says former National Mutual group managing director Geoff Tomlinson.

A traditional short-coming of real estate valuers is their lack of marketing skills says newly appointed Australian Property Institute WA president Murray Stubbs.

NANNUP locals have asked Forest Products Minister Paul Omodei to confirm the WA Government’s commitment to provide 20,000 cubic metres of first grade sawlog for a value-adding project to support current employment levels in the town.

INFORMATION technology proponent, BusinessNews columnist, and former WA deputy premier Mal Bryce has been lured into another venture.

A SKILLED workforce is what separates Australia from the US according to Opposition Leader Kim Beazley.

PERTH-based company Cape Range Wireless has acquired 20 per cent of US company Arcadian Wireless Inc.

Building unions will target prominent government-funded building projects in the lead-up to the next State election, according to the Master Builders Association.

Monday 21 February was an active day for the South West region.It was the day when the State Cabinet met, opened, launched and shored up support from the regions affected by the Regional Forest Agreement.

THE winter harvest is in and farmers have generally had a good year with above average yields.

WHILE both new Master Builders Association president John Mitchell and prominent builder Len Buckeridge share similar ideals, one has become a household name while the other has remained relatively obscure.

BUNBURY City Council CEO Michael Whitaker’s honeymoon period looks set to end as his administration faces attacks from various quarters of the business community.

THE Westpac-Melbourne Institute Index of Consumer Sentiment plummeted 9 per cent to 101 in February, putting further interest rate rises in doubt.

THE downward trend in vacancy levels looks likely to continue according to Jones Lang LaSalle research analyst Frank Sorgiovanni.

THE managed funds market was valued at more than $560 billion in the December quarter – an increase of 6.5 per cent on the previous quarter.

THE Co-operative Bulk Handling Grain Silos at North Quay, will not be saved says Planning Minster Graham Kierath.

A SCHEME that rewards employers who take on more trainees and apprentices has been expanded into all regional areas.