FIVE years ago, Perth designer Anna Chandler was working in the back shed of her home. How things have changed.Last week, Ms Chandler celebrated the shipment of her company’s first container load of gift and homewares to the US.
SMALL retailers in shopping centres signed up on net leases – where they have to pay rent plus outgoings – usually face a nasty letter from their landlord around September.
PRESSURE appears to be mounting on the State Government to raise taxes in its forthcoming May budget.Over the past month, WA Treasurer Eric Ripper has been painting a grim picture of the State’s finances.
BUILDERS and contractors are being told by militant unions such as the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union who to hire and how much to pay them if one of their subcontractors goes broke.
PUTTING systems in place to govern virtually every facet of the business has paid off for a Subiaco pharmacy.Friendlies Chemists Subiaco embarked on the Pharmacy Guild of Australia’s Quality Care Pharmacy program about 18 months ago.
MALAGA is moving away from its reputation as a sleepy hollow thanks to a business development boom.Osborne Park is rapidly becoming a retail, office and showroom precinct and land values are rising to match.
THE jury is still out on the efficiency of the WA Government’s Building Industry and Special Projects Inspectorate, even though it has charged a senior union figure for using intimidatory behaviour.
HOT on the heels of its acquisition of former technological services partner, Chrome Global, the WA arm of public relations firm PPR has had some line-up changes.The firm has lost five staff members and gained six.
TREATING a business like an extended family unit has payed off for 23-year-old transport company Swan Gold Tours.The company was formed by husband-and-wife team Mike and Natalie Silvestri and is now run by their son, Maurizio.
IT will be more than two years until the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre opens its doors to customers, but work to bring the people in has already begun.
OUTLAW motorcycle gang members helping to organise stop-work meetings, people locked in sea containers, witness intimidation, builders forcing sub contractors to sign union Enterprise Bargaining Agreements and corporate
LABOUR hire’s old contract-broking model looks to be on the way out in WA, with the State Government naming labour hire firms as ‘employers’ in its proposed Labour Relations Reform Bill.
THE transport sector supporting WA’s convention industry is growing comfortably but waiting with bated breath for the completion of the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre.
A DISALLOWANCE motion has being raised in the Legislative Council of WA Parliament to try and throw out the WA Government’s small business registration regulations.From January 1 business registrations went up from $93 to $103.
