Mark Beyer

EMERGING technology company Advanced Powder Technologies has adopted a new name and rejigged its ownership as it moves toward an Australian Stock Excha

THE Water Corporation could be forced to modify aspects of its $350 million desalination plant at Kwinana to take account of a new port project planned by Fremantle Ports.

Nanotechnology company pSivida has emerged this year as Western Australia’s largest biotechnology stock. Mark Beyer reports on its global progress.

ACCOUNTING firm Ernst & Young will cap off another year of growth this month by moving into new premises that are 40 per cent larger than its current Central Park offices.

PERTH investors with an appetite for risk and a taste for something totally different are being offered an opportunity to back the development of a new kind of ‘less lethal’ ammunition.

Share option schemes made a big difference to the total remuneration of more than 20 chief executives last year.

A commercial port at Kwinana, backed by BGC boss Len Buckeridge, has finally gained environmental approval from the State Government, four years after the project company signed a contract with the government of Richard Court.

In Western Australia’s most comprehensive executive salary survey, Mark Beyer looks behind the headline numbers to find the State’s best value chief executives.

The private Perth company that owns the Red Rooster and Chicken Treat brands across Australia plans extensive national growth ahead of an eventual stock market float.

One of the hottest topics at the skills shortage forum was the negative attitude of students and parents towards traditional trades such as metalwork and mechanics.

Perth-based heavy equipment supplier and possible sales target Emeco International has reported its fifth successive year of 30 per cent-plus growth in net profit.

With the shortage of skilled labour arguably the biggest issue facing Western Australian business, WA Business News hosted a forum to seek solutions. Mark Beyer reports.

The traditional apprentice system, which has undergone little change for several decades, needs to be modernised and become more flexible, industry representatives told the skills shortage forum.

The State Government has hailed a deal with the Indigenous people of the west Kimberley as a major step towards the long-awaited expansion of the Ord River irrigation project.

After 12 years under the leadership of managing director Neil Hamilton, listed investment company Chieftain Securities is about to be reborn with new management and a new focus on the energy sector.

Prime Minister John Howard has highlighted skills shortages as one of the Federal Government’s top priorities for its new term.

CBH chairman Robert Sewell didn’t mince his words last week when announcing a $72 million investment in two major flour milling companies in Asia.

Listed engineering company RCR Tomlinson has capped off a busy 12 months by making its third acquisition and lifting its market capitalisation towards its goal of $50 million.

A new investment advisory firm with impeccable connections won’t even try to play the stock market. Mark Beyer reports.

Accounting firm Deloitte has undergone two major changes to its audit practice this week, recruiting Ernst & Young principal Tim Richards and saying goodbye to long-serving partner Graham McHarrie.

Western Australia’s venture capital industry has formed a new networking group to tackle the perennial issue of funding for ‘early stage’ technology companies.

The State Government’s budget surplus in the current financial year could be as high as last year’s unexpectedly large $793 million surplus, according to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of WA.

United Credit Union last week completed the annual profit reports for Western Australia’s major non-bank financiers, posting a result that lagged its industry peers.

The State Government has started its tax reform package by cutting the rate of payroll tax to 5.5%. We talk to industry about why more needs to be done.

A Who’s who of Perth’s finance luminaries are backing a new company that aims to shake up the way investors think about venture capital.

The Federal Government’s controversial Financial Services Reform regime has created extra costs and extra paperwork for the industry. Mark Beyer reports.

Listed company mBox.com has announced plans for the simultaneous acquisition of UK-based messaging company Virtualplus Inc and Kwinana industrial company Novacoat.