Noel Dyson

WA EXPORTERS could benefit from the Asian emergence of giant super markets known as hypermarkets.

WESTPAC has entered the e-commerce arena with the launch of its eMarket online shopping directory.

DEVELOPERS beware. It appears simply meeting the Perth City Council’s legal planning requirements are no longer enough.

AN INTERNATIONAL program aimed at improving fraud prevention in the Asia Pacific region is being run out of Perth.

RAC Insurance, WA police and a number of metropolitan councils have joined forces with Crime Stoppers to raise community awareness and involvement in the program.

As 2000 draws closer, businesses will find technical help difficult to find, with software suppliers and special-ists under-resourced, says Sybiz Software’s Sevva Nelson.

ABOUT 17 per cent of WA small businesses are not keeping proper records, a twelve month Australian Securities and Investments Com-mission program has found.

WHILE no longer opposing the GST, Federal Opposition Leader Kim Beazley still has concerns.

STRINGENT hygiene and state-of-the-art technology have helped WA’s Golden Egg Farms crack the Hong Kong egg product market.

SINGAPORE has become only the second country to be given a Y2K ‘all-green rating’ by one of the world’s leading Y2K watchdogs – the Global 2000 Coordinating Group.

SMALL businesses are likely to be hit with GST compliance costs forty times those of big businesses.

RETAILERS and their advisers have been put on notice by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

BUILDING of a three-storey office and apartment building has been approved by council – just three weeks after being knocked back.

WA SMALL and medium businesses seem to be well on track to beat the Year 2000 or Y2K problem.

Greenhouse gas emission treaties could destroy WA’s chance to develop downstream processing industries, says Woodside Petroleum managing director John Akehurst.

THE redevelopment of council’s Number 8 car park bounded by James, Lake and Roe Streets has finally begun.

COMMERCE and Trade Minister Hendy Cowan has led trade missions to Thailand and Malaysia to investigate a range of emerging trade opportunities.

WA EXPORTERS now have a representative in the increasingly lucrative Taiwanese market.

A FRANCHISOR promoting franchises for Year 2000 compliance software has been taken to court by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

A PERTH company has developed a system it claims will maximise returns from sponsorships.

The ten toughest questions asked in an interview have been compiled by recruitment firm Monster.com.au to help interviewees be better prepared.

DESPITE a report recommending shops be allowed to remain open from 6:00am to 9:00pm, with a total deregulation of shopping hours in five years time, it is unlikely trading hours will change.

A 25 year career in the information technology industry has won AlphaWest network services manager Sharon Brown the Telstra Western Australian Business Woman of the Year Award.

ARCHITECTURAL design for a $1 million-plus tourism and community fac-ility in Northcliffe will commence soon.

GAMBLING businesses took more than $11,000 million in 1997-98, according to figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, representing an increase of 42 per cent since 1994-95.

WA’s meetings and exhibitions sector is worth more than $700 million annually to the state economy, the Bur-eau of Tourism Re-search has found.

TWO Perth companies have developed a computer program to help builders and their clients visualise what the finished product will look like.

MOVES are underway to stage the first International Wine Tourism Confer-ence and Expo in Margaret River in 2001.

WA LIQUOR sellers have hit back at the latest attempt by petrol station owners to gain liquor licences.

MORE than $18 million will be invested on new projects this year on behalf of WA grain growers in the western region of the Grains Research and Development Corporation.

WA’S small business sector is still leading the nation in its confidence about the next twelve months, the latest Small Business Index has found.

A STRONG financial incentive is needed to help families act green when building a new home, says Solar Edwards general manager Vaughan Boultwood.