THE skincare business may seem all lavender oil and roses to some, but developing a product range and forging a path in a saturated market has been full of challenges for Megan Larsen, founder of Sodashi.
TOM Pado and Paul Collie have been friends and business associates for more than 25 years, and they bring diverse experience to a local manufacturer that has recently won a major contract against international competition.
‘ENTHUSIASTIC’ is a word that readily springs to mind when you meet Ella Sayers-Anderson and Cam Worth, owners of web design company Red Tiki and its not so outlandish and more refined sibling company, Simplisite.
The adversaries in a heated battle over regulation of the franchising industry in Western Australia have used submissions to a parliamentary inquiry to argue their cases.
OUTSIDE those who work in the highly technical 3D gaming industry, there are not too many people who spend their working hours navigating a three dimensional computerised world.
TRAVEL is a good business to be in, because it’s a product that almost everyone is interested in, according to travel agent and internet entrepreneur Annette Porter.
STARTING out in 1991 as a remote area housing manufacturer, Lowrie Constructions has gone from strength to strength since refocusing its business to build electrical switch rooms for resources projects.
OKA trucks are the stuff of a boys’ own adventure, with their size, tough exterior and off-road versatility securing for the brand a reputation as a vehicle that can go anywhere and do anything.
WESTERN Australia is widely perceived as a state of opportunity, where mineral wealth offers almost unlimited potential for a range of business sectors.
MATT Stiles says he bought himself a job rather than a business when setting up Stiles Electrical Services 11 years ago, and since then has been on the path of growing his business beyond residential work.
WHEN Tim Salik moved to Australia from Pakistan in 1999, he dreamt of a job that was flexible enough to allow him the time to spend with his family; a not-entirely unrealistic expectation.
BRIDGET van Herk’s dream of emulating worldwide brands like Estee Lauder and the Body Shop may be some way from becoming reality, but the chemist and founder of skincare retailer and manufacturer Bridget Black has no doubts about her business’s potential.
MOST drivers would be familiar with the rubber strips placed across Western Australia’s roads and highways to count passing vehicles, but few would know the company behind the majority of these devices is Coogee-based Metrocount.
