Staff Reporters

WORKPLACE agreements are not scary. They are an ideal vehicle for the determination of workplace rights and obligations between an employee and his or her employer.

WORK is expected to start before September on the $16 million Bijou Marina Village near Busselton.Already pre-sales are worth more than $5 million, representing 60 per cent of stage one of the project with ten residences sold.

HIRE Intelligence is currently creating a recruitment consultancy franchise chain.At $40,000 per franchise, the cost includes a four week training course and $6,000 initial advertising spent on behalf of the franchisee.

Sentiment has turned more positive on the bourse but investors will have a bumpy road, according to stockbroker Bell Securities Limited.

LJ HOOKER Fremantle principal Tony Cavallo has warned investors and home owners that appointed executors of an estate can be unprepared and ill-equipped for their responsibilities.

THE 3rd National Conference for Executive Secretaries and Office Professionals will take place on 29 and 30 July at the Duxton Hotel, Perth.

A recent report by Workplace Agree-ments Commissioner Bob Cooper indicated that 53 per cent of workers on agreements received an ordinary wage rate higher than the award, with 7 per cent receiving a rate equal to the award.

SUPERSTORE Harvey Norman, who has had a presence in the South West for some time, is expanding.Growth in the region has spurred it on to create a more substantial site for its Bunbury operation.

WHEN a staff member leaves, they take with them intellectual capital – one of the company’s most valuable assets. So retaining staff is one of the credit manager’s most important tasks.

GOLD miner SMC Resources Limited has reached conditional agreement with Western Pacific Gold Inc, a listed Canadian mining company, to acquire Australian Resource Manage-ment Pty Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of WPI. SMC will pay using 31.5 million fully

THE number of businesses in industrial areas has increased dramatically recently, according to the Industrial Land Use Survey 1997 for Perth, released by the Ministry for Planning.

THE Guides (WA) Women of Distinction Leadership seminars will take place at the Parmelia Hilton Hotel Perth on 7 September and 9 November.

AN INVESTMENT project focusing on premium red wine selection for major export markets has been released. The Brookhampton project is located just two hours from Perth in state-of-the-art vineyard in the newly recognised wine region of Geographe.

If you want to burn your advertising dollar as fast as a big brand TV advertiser, then buy a few thousand impressions on a busy website such as Yahoo.By my calculations, 10,000 impressions (individuals viewing your ad) costing $500, would be used up in

Western Power’s energy showpiece, the Collie Power Station, officially came of age last week when it was opened by WA Energy Minister Colin Barnett.

WHILE there is a cost involved in using a recruitment consultant, it can be more economical than delegating the task to someone in the company.

Melbourne-based consultant Peter Moore has been appointed by Sovereign Resources (Australia) NL to spearhead their marketing strategy for its $78 million SRDC manganese sulphate project, locat-ed 61 kilometres southeast of Nullagine in the Pilbara region

An international hotel chain has secured its first foothold in WA’s hospitality industry with a management contract for a $55 million development in North Fremantle.

THE Internet’s pace of adoption has eclipsed the take-up rate of all preceding communications technologies.

Visitors to the City Beach foreshore in the near future may be surprised to discover a new cafe/restaurant for their entertainment.

WORKSHOPS are being held throughout WA to discuss the next five year strategy for the state’s tourism industry.The WA Tourism Commission has employed independent consultant Market Equity to meet with a wide range of industry bodies to investigate their

The eyes of the nickel world were firmly fixed on WA at an event to examine progress at the nickel laterite processing facilities at Murrin Murrin, Bulong and Cawse in the eastern Goldfields.

With the Internet Phantom Menace casting a shadow over the business world and so many small to medium-size businesses acquiring technologies from different sources, it’s a lot like dancing with wolves (providers) while trying to make peace with the Indian

Imagine if I were to ask ten of the most talented and experienced entre-preneurs: “what is the most important ingredient in running a successful service business?”. I could get ten different answers: knowledge, experience, capital, advertising, training,

THE recent move by the Bank of England to sell 125 tonnes of gold this year stopped dead a rally in the precious metal.

A major retail centre in Albany, the Dog Rock Shopping Centre, has been placed on the market by its vendors at a proposed price of between $7 million and $8 million.

In its first year of operation, Perth-based First Quantum Minerals Ltd has commissioned two new mines in Cen-tral Africa and placed its Likasi copper-cobalt tailings project in the Shaba province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) into mothballs.

iiNET is WA owned and provides effective Internet solutions for business customers.

1998 WA Tourism Awards winner El Questro has been nominated for the Sir David Brand Award for Tourism in this year’s awards.

Online share trading has been in Australia for two years, and now Internet stockbrokers are fighting for business through full-page press and television advertising.

Commercial interest in the CBD continues to be strong, according to a report by real estate company Herron Todd White.

THE cobalt-rich mineral resources of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are being exploited to the detriment of the country’s environment and to the financial benefit of African leaders of state.