A FEDERAL Court judgement handed down last week serves as a reminder for those buying an established business to ensure all relevant financial information is properly considered.
Despite Western Australia bucking the national trend, posting an eight per cent increase in residential dwelling approvals, seasonally adjusted, the nation's building industry bodies have warned a housing recovery can't be guaranteed.
Publicly listed agricultural property investment company, The Ark Fund, has announced a $55 million capital raising and an implementation agreement to effect its merger with private managed investment scheme player Rewards Group.
People lunching in Fremantle today will be treated to a rare sight as a massive crane ship transporting four post-Panamax cranes from Shanghai will deliver a new $12.5 million crane to DP World's container terminal on North Quay.
Austereo has continued its reign atop Perth's radio station landscape with Mix 94.5 and stablemate 92.9 taking out first and second positions for overall listeners across each weekday, according to the latest ratings survey.
Quickstep Holdings has signed a manufacturing license agreement with Northrop Grumman, which the Coogee-based company said is the next step towards manufacturing $700 million worth of components for the Joint Strike Fighter program.
JEANS and thongs aren’t the type of attire usually associated with a successful corporate culture. However, denim and flip-flops is the standard garb worn by staff at international surf brand, Rusty, based in Osborne Park.
International pawn broker Cash Converters has signed a three-year $300,000 naming rights sponsorship deal with the state's under-18 junior rugby league club, the WA Reds.
The owners of one of Western Australia’s top tourist attractions have put their award-winning remote accommodation business up for sale so they can retire, but they don’t want just anybody taking over.
POPULAR Perth restaurateur and owner of JoJo’s Café, Umberto Tinelli, plans to finish his 25-year career in hospitality and sell the Nedlands venue in the next nine months.
Numerous Margaret River vineyards and wineries have been sold recently or remain on the market as a “perfect storm” of damaging factors impose problems on the region’s winemakers and producers.
THE state government has come under fire from tourism industry leaders after Western Australia failed to garner a single trophy, or even a mention, at the Qantas Australian Tourism Awards 2009 held last week.
WESTERN Australia’s northern cattle industry and the federal government have expressed concern over the increasing reliance on the nation’s largest live export market, Indonesia, in light of falling profits and rising costs.
The Perth Convention Bureau has been presented with an award for the best stand at the southern hemisphere's premier tradeshow for business events being held in Melbourne.
Perth's radio stations have received the first indication as to how they are faring in 2010 with Austereo's Mix 94.5 recording its 82nd consecutive top place finish, a new ratings survey shows.
AN influx of new feature film and television productions in Western Australia has prompted one local producer to claim that Perth could become the next Hollywood.
FOUR contracts with separate government bodies and publicly listed outfits worth about $65 million have been secured by local IT services providers during the past month.
Telco networks provider Amcom Telecommunications has announced a net profit after tax of $7.6 million for the first half of this financial year, a gain of 66 per cent over the previous corresponding period's $4.5 million NPAT.
