Mark Zoccoli is no stranger to the hospitality industry, having spent about 25 years in the game, primarily managing restaurants including A Room with a View, Observation City and, most recently, six years with popular Mt Lawley cafe Mille.
Frankland River pioneers Merv and Judy Lange have received plenty of offers for their 110-hectare vineyard but they aren’t interested in selling Alkoomi Wines just yet.
Pregnancy may be a life-changing experience but it shouldn’t turn expectant mothers into fashion victims, according to the founders of Aura Pregnant Sexy Motherwear.
PROPONENTS of extended retail trading hours in Western Australia have launched a combined campaign to convince the public that longer shopping hours will benefit the community and the economy.
In a climate where skills are in short supply a growing
number of Western Australian companies are investing in strategies to try and
keep good staff from leaving. Julie-anne Sprague reports.
The hospitality scene in Northbridge is experiencing a slow revival thanks to a couple of new operators who have upped the ante in both food and service.
A LACK of research and development funding is the principal reason Western Australia is falling behind the R&D powerhouses of New South Wales and Queensland, despite continued growth in the number
ISA Technologies, the company that invested $5 million in a supercomputer in 2003, is providing access to that infrastructure, free of charge, to what it calls a group of trusted participants.
THAT simple ideas can take significant amounts of money, time and research effort to bring to market readiness is not news to the team at Intierra.The idea was to gather a range of information importa
IT was the expertise of two Edith Cowan University researchers that prompted PanoramaFLAT to make Perth a major base for a planned global roll-out of its microphotonics products, currently under devel
FARMING electronics developer and electronic display sign manufacturer Computronics is a significant investor in research and development in Western Australia and, with a recent acquisition, is keen t
THE University of Queensland made nearly four times more money from licence income in 2002 than the next best performing university and had more than $40 million equity in 34 spin-out companies.
PROVIDING a big pool of in-house pre-seed funding is not the only path to commercialisation, according to The University of Western Australia Office of Industry and Innovation director, Andy Sierakowski.
Developing research into a marketable product or service can be complex but the returns are great if all the right systems are in place as Julie-anne Sprague and David Gibson report.
