SEVERAL Perth hotels are upgrading bars, cellars, lounges and business centres while launching extensive refurbishment programs to attract the growing leisure and corporate markets.
Globetrotter Corporate Travel founder and director John Battley rated a finance company that he was considering doing business with so highly, he literally put his money where his mouth was and bought into it. That was about two years ago and the company
AN East Perth-based business-to-business marketing communications firm has been the first foreign company to be named as one of the top agencies globally by a US marketing strategy magazine.
ONE of Western Australia’s fastest-growing surveying companies has successfully navigated through the economic downturn, increasing its annual turnover by almost 375 per cent and tripling its staffing levels in recent years.
WESTERN Australia’s first liquor store franchise has achieved considerable growth since opening five years ago, after initially attracting fierce opposition from the sector’s bigger players.
TOURISM WA will be restructured with significant staff reductions and regional and international office closures following a recent strategic analysis.
Agribusiness TFS Corporation has received a boost to its share value after announcing it had signed a deal with a US-based institutional investor potentially worth $120 million over six years.
WESTERN Australia’s top sporting clubs can enhance their revenue and profit through the improved collection and use of information on their supporters, according to a marketing expert in international sports.
ONE of Perth’s most successful hospitality players has ended his five-year search for a western suburbs venue to develop with the purchase of The Floreat Hotel.
TWO significant feature film projects progressing towards production in Western Australia highlight the growing international prominence of the state’s film and television industry.
IN delivering his third federal budget, Treasurer Wayne Swan has made good on his promise to “get back to surplus as quickly as possible”, but one result is that Western Australia has received little from the Commonwealth.
PEARL farmer and retailer Willie Creek Pearls has enhanced its land-based touring business with the acquisition of an established Broome tour operator.
WESTERN Australian sailing legend Skip Lissiman hopes increased corporate support for an event he says is the “Melbourne Cup of match race sailing” will help elevate Perth’s international reputation
The federal government has been told the cost of the National Broadband Network could be capped at $26 billion as opposed to the original $43 billion earmarked for the project, and that it should be built without Telstra.
WESTERN Australian consumers have taken a cautious approach towards new debt, with demand for mortgage and personal credit falling during the first quarter of the year compared to the same period last year, a new study has found.
The future of Western Australia’s renewable energy sector has been given a shot in the arm this week with two of the state’s largest earth-friendly power projects taking significant steps forward.
THE owners of an eco-friendly accommodation facility in the state’s north-west have called for expressions on interest for the business after 15 years of operations.
FACING possible closure after the funding cuts flagged by the state government last month, there may be a ray of hope for Gingin’s Gravity Discovery Centre in the form of newly appointed Science and Innovation Minister, Bill Marmion.