Staff Reporters

The Family Business Australia WA chapter has held its first workshop for members.

There’s an old saying with more than a grain of truth in it that one should ‘never trust a restaurant with a view, which revolves or which overlooks the water’.

EXPLORATION discoveries and a strong reinvestment program have augured well for gold miner Hill 50 Gold NL which posted a net profit after tax of $10.77 million for the last fiscal year.

A few weeks ago the world rather dubiously celebrated the birth of the sixth billionth citizen on planet Earth.At the end of the first millennium, the world’s population was estimated to be about 300 million. At the beginning of this century it was 2.5

Capital gains tax changes proposed under the Ralph review could be both a boon and a burden to mum-and-dad investors, according to the Australian Society of CPAs.

THE appointment of former Homestake CEO Richard Tastula as a director of Titan Resources NL has given a significant corporate boost to the company’s various resource endeavours.

IT IS not often we see retailing dominating the news but the movements in the sector have certainly created a lot of interest recently.

Data integrity strategies are the cheapest business insurance you can have, says Hewlett-Packard Australia SME program manager Graham Thomas.

THURSDAY 10 October 1996 stands out as a date to be remembered by Plutonic Resources Limited exploration manager Wally Bucknell.

THE Perth-founded telecommunications company Westel was the golden child of small-cap stocks on the All Ordinaries Index this month.

AFTER seventy-seven years in retailing, Aherns’ decision to sell to David Jones has marked the end of an era for Australia’s last family-owned department store.

BOTSWANA – described as ‘elephant country’ when it comes to diamond production – might yet prove a lucrative hunting ground for Auridiam Consoli-dated NL.

FLEXIBILITY and control are sought-after qualities by clients of export marketing and management providers, says Kindred Inter-national director Stuart Crockett.

CRUCIAL issues impacting property are well known and frequently discussed. These include interest rates, the product and its location, building costs, inflation, capital gains tax and the goods and services tax, yields and economic and property outlooks.

PERTH-based telecommunications carrier Amcom Telecommunications will complete another stage of its multimillion dollar broadband telecommunications network rollout by December.

WA-BASED manganese miner Consolidated Minerals Limited has clinched two important deals for the sale of product from its Pilbara mine.

A NEW Federal Government-funded program will help small to medium enterprises take advantage of international trade on the Internet.

AN ON-SITE massage service is carving a niche in the WA corporate health market.

PERTH-based hydrocarbon major Woodside Energy Limited has continued its drive to expand production and take advantage of surging oil prices.

AN AUSTRALIAN-made diagnostic software package has the potential to save business operators thousands of dollars on computer service calls.

THE determination by South African gold miner Durban Roodepoort Deep to move into the Australasian region has taken another step forward.

FAST food chain Nando’s has achieved total WA sales growth of more than 80 per cent per annum during the past four years, says national marketing manager James Tomlinson.

The Review of Business Taxation changes handed down by the Treasurer in September will have a significant impact on the property and construction industry according to KPMG taxation experts Carlo Franchina and Craig Yaxley.

AUSTRALIAN stockbroker Bell Securities Limited has again rated Perth-based Aquarius Platinum NL as a buy for resource investors.

CLOUGH Engineering has been named preferred tenderer to build the Minerva Gas Field Development flowlines and gas plant near Port Campbell in Western Victoria.

A SYSTEM developed by WA-based Solar Energy Systems and Venco Products in collaboration with Murdoch University can provide drinking water to remote communities in WA and other states.

SMALL to medium businesses can make their own web sites and need no technical know-ledge to do so, thanks to a new product.

TROY Resources NL has opened up a new area of the Sandstone greenstone belt with its recent commissioning of the Bulchina gold mine.

THE Global Mining Opportunities Seminar will be held at the Parmelia Hilton on 18 October.

THE gloom is lifting from the local economy as improving commodity prices promise a strong recovery.

A UNIVERSITY of WA team is trying to find why many organisational change programs fail.

While gold targets were down, its mineral division helped Sons of Gwalia Limited register a net profit of $27.99 million, following an overall operating profit after tax for the current fiscal of $54.53 million.