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The Matt Birney-chaired Carbon Conscious says it has reached a substantial deal with an unnamed ASX top 50 company to plant "many millions" of Mallee Eucalypt trees in the Wheatbelt region.
The implementation of an exploration incentive scheme for the resources sector could create over 4,000 new jobs and add $114 million to gross domestic product, a report has found.
VDM Group, through its Queensland subsidiary Bellero Construction, has secured a $15.3 million construction contract for stage nine of the Torbay Retirement Villages project.
Perth-based Bunnings Warehouse Property Trust has unveiled plans to raise $120 million, which will be backed by Wesfarmers and fully underwritten by JP Morgan Australia.
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THE Fremantle Hospital Medical Research Foundation has found a recession-proof way to raise funds in an increasingly difficult economic environment - lottery.
INVESTORS in listed equities are now asking how far the current rally on global equity markets can go and whether it is safe to entrust savings into those markets.
REGIONAL Business Enterprise Centres will share in a $96,000 windfall after the state government's Small Business Development Corporation decided last week to pull funding from the Belmont BEC.
MORE than two-thirds of Perth's CBD office stock will be below the federal government's new increased energy efficiency requirements, expected to be introduced in two years.
Stirling Resources has extended its financial relationship with Austrian commodities trader DCM DECOmetal, raising $10 million to acquire Matilda Minerals mineral sands assets.
Barra Resources will restart its Burbanks gold mine near Coolgardie within weeks after it struck new mining and profit-sharing deals with Kalgoorlie-based Mulgabbie Mining.
The state's racing industry authority has asked the government for support for its $56 million wagering tax bill as funds allocated to the industry fall by over $4 million for the 2010 financial year.
Perth company Plantation Energy Australia (PEA) has struck a $70 million, three-year deal with a Belgium-based power company to supply densified biomass fuel pellets.
Perseus Mining has confirmed plans it will raise up to $75 million in new capital with nearly half to be placed with institutions in North America and Britain.
South Perth-based Advanced Ocular Systems will resume trading of its shares in June after shareholders today endorsed a $22.5 million reverse takeover of International Formwork & Scaffolding.
Boom Logistics says it will further reduce employee numbers across all business units and sell 40 cranes as it revises down its full year net profit forecast from $29 million to $14 million.
Publisher West Australian Newspapers Holdings (WAN) has posted a modest rise in reported net profit for the March quarter but nearly all other performance indicators showed a major slump.
Reed Resources says it is looking closely at the assets of collapsed Windimurra Vanadium as a feasibility study pegs capital costs of its nearby Barrambie vanadium project at $629 million.
Redcliffe-based Coventry Group says it expects its net profit for fiscal 2009 to be "significantly below" the previous year as the global financial crisis takes its toll on its industrial products business unit.
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House prices in Perth have dropped more than 3 per cent in the March quarter, suggesting activity in the housing sector may not be as strong as anecdotal evidence implies, economists say.
Perth-based Focus Minerals has completed the second part of its $28 million capital raising, with shareholders out in force for the $3 million share purchase plan.
Job advertisements in Western Australia have fallen more than 7 per cent in April while national figures fell for the 12th consecutive month, a survey shows.
