Staff Reporters

Herdsman is still one of the most easily accessible and in-demand commercial/industrial areas in Perth in the opinion of real estate agents Colliers Jardine. This is despite the significant growth of some recent alternatives.

MANY women receive unequal treatment when applying for finance, says Challenge Bank head of marketing Melissa Reynolds.

Michele and Alain Mandois are the latest in a long line of champagne makers, being sixth generation owners of the family vineyard Comte de Lantage which originated in the mid 1800s.

Look in the papers and you soon realise how many small local retailers are competing with larger national brands for the consumer dollar.

Finance professionals in the resources industry should grab their diaries now and pencil in the CPA Resources Convention.

RECRUITMENT companies servicing the resource sector are “a bit flat”, says TR Technical Support general manager Des Linehan.

TAX reform is always difficult politically. In 1985, Messrs Keating, Hawke, Crean and Beazley were strong supporters of the introduction of a goods and services tax as a basis for re-forming our tax system and cutting our growing dependency on income taxe

A MAJOR new commercial centre is being carefully planned by LandCorp at the Ocean Keys business centre in the northern suburb of Clarkson.

PASTA has been enjoyed for centuries and by tradition, Italian people have consumed more than the rest of the world’s population put together. The picture is now changing.

MOSS Stilling Vinters and Elderton Wines are bringing Richard Sheedy over to Perth for a tasting of his entire range of wines on 23 June.

THE Great Australian Bight off the Goldfields region of WA could become the next hydrocarbon province.This follows the recent completion of an extensive seismic survey conducted aboard the vessel MV Sea Challenger by GHD-Gardline, a joint venture compri

Small business should have access to ongoing compensation to offset the cost of a vastly more complex GST, says the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants tax director Angela Ryan.

Whether people personally lost a job or not, the downsizing of the ’80s and ’90s has created a paradigm shift in the way people view their work life and manage their careers.

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.

THE Australian Securities and Investments Commission is currently scrutinising companies that fundamentally alter the direction of their business to incorporate Internet-based and ‘hi-tech’ assets.

EAST Perth and North-bridge are still attracting strong buyer demand.

A JUNIOR Canadian-listed company, Banro Resources Corporation, has had its 13 million ounce gold mine in the southern Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) seized, its field equipment looted and four of its staff jailed for treason in Ki

CONNECTING your business to the Internet should never be a guessing game.

THE State Budget was a disappointing result for the WA tourism industry, says Tourism Council Australia branch manager Brian Hearne.

THE Australian Securities and Investments Commission recently announced it would extend relief granted from the prospectus provisions of the Corporations Law for employee share issues.

A handsome new $5 million office/apartment building proposed in West Perth was specially designed by architect Andrew Campion, of Campion Design Group, to combine city views with contemporary living.

A small Sydney-based company, with widespread WA distribution of its mostly pharmaceutical products, has achieved an international breakthrough with a new technology.

Hotmix Group provides Internet Services squarely focused on the needs of business.

MORE than 70 per cent of the finalists in this year’s WA Tourism Awards for Excellence are from the regions, with the Kimberley and South West providing 50 per cent.

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.