Noel Dyson

A LARGE international survey firm has extended its presence in the WA market by opening an office in Fremantle.Germanischer Lloyd is one of the largest maritime surveying firms in the world.

ON JULY 1, the sun will set on the body regulating state-based building societies and credit unions, the Australian Financial Institutions Commission.

INCREASED immigration would impact badly on Australia’s unemployment but be good for the economy, according to the latest Morgan & Banks Job Index.

THE National Australia Bank hopes to raise up to $2 billion by means of an innovative investment scheme.

WA continued to be the greatest contributor, in absolute and relative terms, to Australian exports for the March quarter 1999, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

AN AUSTRALIAN delegation is heading to Silicon Valley in the US to learn from its venture capitalists.The trade mission includes ‘home-grown’ Australian venture capital funds and Aust-ralian representatives of major regional funds.

WA SMALL businesses, especially those with more than 20 employees, are leading in the number of Australian firms showing a profit, according to latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ Australian Business Longitudinal Survey.

CENTRALISED credit decision making by the major banks is contributing to WA’s insolvency crisis, says Castle Gates managing director John McGlue.

SOLAHART Industries, Noranda Primary School, Steens Gray and Kelly, Ellenbrook Management and Rob Horn are among the winners of this year’s Energy Efficiency Awards.

FEES for council’s Citiplace Child Care Centre have risen. The full weekly fee is now $178, up from $168, the daily fee has risen to $37 from $35 and the sessional fee has gone up to $24 from $22.

SMALL businesses in the Stirling region are invited to register interest in the Stirling Small Business Awards.Prospective entrants have until 9 August to submit their entries.

TOO many companies falsely believe they are safe from computer hacking but it is a real and growing threat to business – and Australia is recognised as having some of the world’s most skilled hackers.

THE US took the lion’s share (15 per cent) of Australia’s service exports worth $3.9 billion in 1997-98, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics’ figures.

VANESSA Mazza has been granted a six month lease for one of the vacant shops beneath the Perth Town Hall for a monthly rent of just $90 per month.

EIGHT WA firms are being invited to take part in Corporation Builders’ Singapore program that introduces Australian firms to Singaporean investors.

OFFERING training over the Internet nearly won the West Coast College of TAFE an award in the education division of the recent Information Technology and Telecommunications Awards.

Employers should regard stress as a work-related injury says Clayton workplace relations and employment partner John Lunny.

SHOPPING centres in WA generate one in 20 jobs, a new economic impact study by retail consultants Jebb Holland Dim-asi has found.

A CONSORTIUM including Mul-tiplex Constructions, Rockingham Park and Satterley and Company has been selected to redevelop the former railway marshalling yards at Leighton.

THERE has been an impressive take up rate of electronic commerce by Australian businesses, the latest Yellow Pages Small Business Index has found.

A new field of accounting is rapidly gaining acceptance in Australia – so much so that a new body has been set up to maintain its standards.

A multi-million dollar sewerage program being undertaken in a joint venture between the Water Corporation of WA and consulting engineers Gutteridge Haskins & Davey Pty Ltd (GHD) has turned to vacuum systems to reduce costs and overcome civil engineering p

AN INFORMATION technology and telecommunications trade mission will visit Israel from 4 to 9 July.Information Technology Minister Richard Alston will lead the mission.

AUSTRALIA Post has been asked by the Australian Competition and Consumer Com-mission to delay price increases for its Ad Post services until October 2000.

THE WA branch of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has launched its own website.

For nearly ten years Expectation managing director Hugh McLernon has been thumbing his nose at two ancient laws to help people fund litigation actions.

A NEW link between Western Power and Telstra will make it easier for Western Australians to set up new phone and electricity accounts.

SMALL business awards appear to be drawing more support, if this year’s Belmont Small Business Awards are any indication. Belmont Enterprise Centre manager Carol Hanlon said support for the awards had been excellent.

DEVELOPMENT plans for 4 Belle-vue Terrace, West Perth have been refused by council.

TWO ERG member companies have been brought under the ERG brand name.

A WA university is teaching South East Asians how to reduce work-related injuries and illness.

AS part of the implementation of Nutrition WA:2000, the food industry is encouraged to apply for a nomination for the WA Nutrition Awards.