Mark Beyer

Two major port developments in the Pilbara have moved closer to commencement, while the Oakajee port in the Mid West continues to languish.

The incumbent directors of scooter manufacturer Vmoto have retained their board positions after narrowly surviving a challenge from a group of disgruntled investors.

Wesfarmers shareholders have delivered a mild rebuke to their board of directors, delivering a protest vote against a new share options scheme but supporting the company’s remuneration report.

The planned Minerals Resource Rent Tax has generated a lot of heated debate but remarkably little sensible analysis.

THERE is a new reality in banking that businesses need to understand.“The banks are definitely open for business, but they are being more diligent.”

Lending to business almost dried up during the GFC, but the banks, big and small, are starting to talk to their clients again.

With industry connections that would be the envy of any university, the Australian Institute of Management Western Australia has become a large and commercially successful business.

WHAT makes a group of venture capital investors from California travel halfway around the globe to a mining town in their search for technology opportunities?

Privately-owned engineering and contracting company Calibre Global has announced its fifth acquisiton in the past two years, with the purchase of Melbourne-based infrastructure servi

Accounting firm BDO has released updated modelling on the impact of the Minerals Resource Rent Tax (MRRT) which it said confirms that smaller miners will pay a higher rate of tax than the country’s

Perth has hosted many international visitors over the past couple of weeks, and not all of them were here for CHOGM.

Eva Skira says a career as a professional director does not suit everyone, but it has worked well for her since she moved to Perth nearly 20 years ago.

FAST-GROWING towns in the Pilbara have continued to deliver new opportunities for local construction companies, with Pindan and Gavin Construction among the latest winners.

THE federal government has announced extra funding for the Industry Capability Network to help Australian businesses win supply contracts on major resources projects such as the Browse LNG developm

Euroz, Hartleys and Argonaut rank as three of the most profitable stockbroking and investment banking firms in the country.

Stockbroking firm Hartleys has joined most of its industry peers in recording a bumper profit increase for the year to June 2011, a result that is unlikely to be matched in the current financial ye

The federal government has announced extra funding for the Industry Capability Network, to help Australian businesses win supply contracts on major resources projects such as the Browse LNG develop

A year in the planning, this week’s meetings of Commonwealth business and government leaders need to deliver tangible results.

The number of Western Australian university students graduating with mining industry qualifications is set to jump this year to 450 but the rapid increase is bringing with it some problems.

Kagara Mining has taken the unusual step of writing to the ASX to explain why it did not obtain shareholder approval for shares and options issued to new managing director Geoff Day.

The Australian Institute of Management Western Australia has recruited one of the top staff at Murdoch University as its new chief executive.

Scottish company Global Energy Group (GEG) has moved into the Australian market by acquiring a majority shareholding in West Perth-based Global Resources Network – GRN Australasia Pty Ltd in a deal

The federal government has established a manufacturing industry taskforce that includes seven politicians, six unionists, two academics and one business lobbyist along with six industry executives.

The people participating in Occupy Wall Street and copycat protests around the world are a muddled bunch but they should not be dismissed out of hand.

Western Australia’s share of national exports has risen to 46 per cent and looks set to rise further.

The Barnett government is living up to its promise to deliver more community infrastructure via public private partnerships, naming three short-listed consortiums to bid for a 350-bed prison develo

Privately owned Bethesda Hospital in Claremont, chaired by former health department boss Neale Fong, has approached the state government to assist with a financing package to buy back its land and

Mount Gibson Iron has agreed to settle a long-running US$114 million dispute with a Chinese steel mill, by signing two off-take agreements that will result in the partial recovery of the money it i

The outcome of last week’s jobs forum in Canberra was sensible, incremental reform, but don’t expect the policy change to have a big impact on local industry.

Engineering and contracting group Downer EDI has recruited John Sheridan as Chief Operating Officer, Downer Australia West, following an internal restructuring.

IT consulting company CSG, which has substantial operations in Perth, said today it has received additional takeover approaches after an indicative $340 million offer from an unnamed bidder la

GR Engineering Services has been awarded two gold industry contracts, and expects a third to follow, bringing total revenue into the business of about $55 million.