TWO Western Australian companies have been taken to court for misleading advertising, one by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the other by the Department of Consumer and Employme
CHRISTMAS Island phosphate miner Phosphate Resources Limited faces dual challenges to its fund raising plans, with a board spill campaign being threatened by disgruntled shareholders and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission placing
WA-BASED business angel Churchill Capital has helped Victorian-based Boron Molecular complete a $1.9 million capital raising ahead of a planned Australian Stock Exchange listing for the pharmaceutical player in the first half of this year.
ACCORDING to figures tendered to the Western Australian Electoral Commission, the Australian Labor Party finished the 2001-02 financial year with a $66,000 surplus.
PLANNING marketing and sales offerings around special occasions can be a successful way for small businesses to build their profits.
Traditionally these dates included Mothers Day, Fathers Day, Christmas and Easter, how-ever, Australia Day and Anzac Day
WHILE the 107 recommendations from the Review of the Occupational Safety and Health Act have proven controversial, review author Bob Laing insists his main aim was to get employers and employees talking about workplace safety.
WHILE 2003 may not have had quite the bleak beginning of 2002, talk of cutbacks and consolidations within the advertising industry is rife.
A fall in consumer confidence and the Western Australian Government’s decision last year to cut its advertising
A COMO-BASED company could emerge with 35 per cent in Christmas Island’s monopoly miner Phosphate Resources Limited, which is negotiating with the Federal Government for compensation worth tens of millions of dollars for a controversial detention centre.
ONE of WA’s most successful travel industry trade titles is launching a spin-off publication aimed at the general travelling public.
Traveltalk Asia-Pacific has been a travel industry staple for more than two decades and is now releasing a retail version
POSTERS used as part of a promotion to garner public support to the City of Perth’s push to sink two railway lines have become an unlikely souvenir, particularly for English back-packers.
Featuring the London Underground logo and the tagline: “As
WHILE a recent survey showed that Australians were more committed to their job and their company than most of their international colleagues, the question for most managers remains … what keeps staff committed?
The survey, conducted by Taylor Nel
FEDERAL Labor politician Carmen Lawrence has written to a Fremantle cafe that decided to opt out of WA’s industrial relations system by making its workers individual contractors.As a result of its dec
A RECENT union attempt to use the enterprise orders created by WA’s new industrial relations laws has highlighted the Australian Industrial Relations Commission’s unwillingness to engage in State-based industrial relations issues unless some form
NEXT year looks like a strong one for the recruitment sector if the strong growth enjoyed in 2002 continues to build.
After a difficult 2001, blighted by corporate collapses around the world and hit even harder by the September 11 terrorist atta
