Special Reports

Before joining Woodside four years ago, Frank Tudor had worked for BP, which he joined in 1981 as an engineering graduate.

Clay Cook established ineedhits.com in 1998 under the name of Business Web (WA) Pty Ltd.

When Kent Lyon established his own architectural practice in Bunbury in 1996, it was the realisation of a lifetime goal.

Rami Brass the director of Perth Tax Services and Managing Partner of the Perth office, has more than 19 years' experience in providing taxation advice and specialist tax consulting

Selecting 40 winners from the more than 130 nominations received for this year's 40under40 Awards was a difficult task.

Chris Farquhar established Wired City in 1999 after returning from a stint working for major US software developer, OSI Software.

Gregory Peters is responsible, as managing director of Antiskid Industries, for introducing an innovative road-surfacing product to WA with the claim that it would reduce rear-end c

Grant Robertson is the director, Postgraduate Studies, at the Murdoch Business School, Murdoch University. His research interests include leadership and electronic business.

In his role as the academic area head of entrepreneurship, Stephen Choo leads a team that has developed the Curtin Business School into the largest provider of entrepreneurship and

A $3,000 loan to a friend to help start up a youth travel magazine threw Brian Leedman into the deep end of the publications industry.

Since establishing commercial real estate company, Lease Equity Pty Ltd, in 2002, Jim Tsagalis has been involved in property transactions worth more than $50 million.

DARREN Haunold's story of personal courage, tenacity and vision shone out among this year's collection of 40under40 nominees.

Prior to setting up her own management consultancy, Danicia Dutry was head-hunted from BHP Billiton Iron Ore by Woodside Energy to become Woodside's senior external affairs adviser.

In September 1994, with just $5,000 in savings, Patrick PK Ng established telecommunications carrier Global Dial.

In his capacity as dean of the faculties of Economics and Commerce, Education, and Law at the University of Western Australia, Paul McLeod is responsible for business administration

Gavin Burnett resigned from the position of State general manager of a large national recruitment firm to start his own company, BigRedSky, and to develop and commercialise an e-rec

It was with courage, determination and steely attention to detail that Bethany James propelled herself onto the international stage that is the cosmetics industry. Of the conv

A qualified pharmacist by the age of 21, Christopher Shenton began his working career at a large Rockingham pharmacy.

GOVERNMENT approval processes for building projects were roundly criticised by participants in WA Business News' engineering forum.

THE shortage of engineers in Western Australia is likely to continue, judging by the commentary at WA Business News' engineering forum.

PROJECT proponents, particularly in the government sector, have been criticised for awarding engineering contracts based on the lowest price rather than taking a ‘whole-of-life' view.

An engineering forum hosted by WA Business News has revealed a profession facing unprecedented pressures. Mark Beyer reports.

PERTH'S biggest law firms have been shrinking over the past decade while the smaller firms have been growing, leaving some pundits to suggest most law firms will end up looking remarkably similar.

WHO holds the whip hand at Perth's big law firms these days? Is it the senior partners who know the local clients, or the people in Sydney and Melbourne who set the financial targets?

THE national integration of Perth's law firms has been occurring gradually for more than two decades, but has accelerated rapidly over recent years.

STRUCTURAL Monitoring Systems provides a classic example of a backyard inventor devising a breakthrough technology that is now being marketed around the world.

PERTH-BASED company FreeCargo has crafted software developed by academics at the University of Amsterdam into an online freight ordering system that provides real benefits to its users and revenue to the company.

A LACK of managerial and business skill has been identified as one of the major problems facing innovators who want to commercialise their research breakthrough.

PARTICIPANTS in the WA Business News innovation forum nominated nanotechnology and aquaculture as two sectors with enormous potential for Western Australia.

DIGITAL content management systems developed by Bentley-based DCN (formerly Data-Cast.Net) have caught the attention of global airline industry heavyweight Water-mark.

MEETING with a group of venture capitalists is a great way to learn about some of the exciting and innovative businesses emerging from Western Australia.

THE participants in the WA Business News innovation forum agree that Western Australia's universities need to drive commercial outcomes from their basic research.