Media magnate Kerry Stokes stepped up his attack on WA Newspapers Holdings Ltd today, telling nearly 1,200 Western Australian business people that the publisher had lost focus to its customers.
Perth companies Finbar Group Ltd and Image Resources Ltd today joined a long list of companies caught up in the collapse of Melbourne stockbroker Opes Prime.
Gindalbie Metals Ltd's biggest shareholder has taken legal action to block the sale of 32 million shares, or more than six per cent of its issued capital, that is caught up in the collapse of Melbourne stockbroking firm Opes Prime.
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Peet Ltd has today announced its Peet Alkimos wholesale syndicate has settled on the purchase of a 243-hectare residential zoned property with 1.7km of ocean frontage within the Alkimos Eglinton project.
Leederville-based specialist media company Aspermont has today announced a deal to acquire UK based Mining Communications Ltd for $18.8 million, as part of its global expansion strategy.
ASX-listed exploration company Westgold Resources has today announced a fully underwritten 1-for-4 pro-rata non-renounceable rights issue, at a price of 18 cents per share, to fund its Rover exploration program in the Northern Territory.
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The collapse of stockbroker Opes Prime has ensnared shareholders in at least seven WA resources companies, including high profile mining identity Nathan MacMahon and the biggest stakeholder in Gindalbie Metals Ltd.
Boutique brewing company Oz Brewing Ltd has finalised plans to acquire a manufacturer of sheds and portable accomodation, while also disclosing that its plans for a second retail outlet in Dunsborough have been blocked.
Explorer and aspiring potash producer Reward Minerals Ltd has reached what is being touted as a ground-breaking native title deal to potentially give the Central Western Desert's Martu people more than 10 per cent of the company.
Sales of new homes by Western Australia's largest builders dropped 33.2 per cent in February 2008, following a 47.1 per cent jump in January, figures released today by the Housing Industry Association (HIA) show.
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ComputerCORP Ltd today announced an agreement to purchase Queensland IT firm Coretech for up to $4.2 million in staged cash and share payments over two years.
Windimurra Vanadium Ltd today completed a $25 million capital raising, joining a handful of small and mid-cap mining companies thathave defied the market downturn to raise additional funds.
Incremental Petroleum Limited has announced that it has concluded the purchase all of a further 10 per cent equity in the Edirne licence in Western Turkey from one of its Turkish partners for US$1.5 million.
PERTH-based mineral sands producer Olympia Resources has rejected Territory Resources takeover cash bid, saying its offer was less than half of what it should be according to an independent expert.
Property and maintenance services company Spotless Group Ltd has made a hostile $556 million bid for Programmed Maintenance Services Ltd, one year after PMS bought Perth-based Integrated Group Ltd.
The RBA governor Mr Glenn Stevens delivered a speech this morning to Smart Capital 2008: The Euromoney Australian Financial Markets Innovation Congress in Sydney.
Former state opposition leader, Matt Birney, has teamed up with one of Australia’s biggest corporate farming groups to establish a new business in the emerging industry of carbon offsets.
A local engineering group has been awarded nearly $3 million by the federal government to fast track the commercialisation of technology that is designed to save rail companies time and money.
