MAYBE it’s human nature when times are uncertain, but when corporate finance players in Perth were asked to comment on market trends over the past year, most had a glass half-empty perspective.
Local players in the corporate finance market faced more competition than ever before from big national and international firms, WA Business News’ 2011 survey has found.
LIKE iron ore in the Pilbara, Western Australia’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) sector along the state’s north-west coast is experiencing a wave of development and expansion.
WITH construction costs among the factors dissuading developers from building hotels in Perth, the number of boutique projects coming online in existing structures is cause for optimism, according
THE cost of doing business in the hotel sector is rising, with penalty wage rates among the more contentious issues for operators who claim to face the highest running costs in the world.
It has been a year typified by tumult for the agricultural sector, with cattle farmers taking blows over international trade stoppages and dairy farmers going to war with supermarket giants over pr
A NUMBER of industry sectors lost out this year in the drama of volatile global markets and the high value of the Australian dollar, with tourism, hospitality, retail and residential construction a
It is difficult to know which union could claim to have had the most success during the past year but militant labour groups certainly appear to have found the new federal industrial relations regi
Outsourcing of state services through public-private partnerships may be a politically touchy subject but the Western Australian government has made significant progress in this field this year, ac
Those investors who have suffered through the uranium sector’s miserable 2011 probably don’t have any optimism left, but the ones who can summon up a last skerrick of hope may just find reasons to
If there was one decision that highlighted the weakness of the stock market for most of 2011, it was the deferral of mining contractor Barminco’s initial public offering.
In a year when big deals were few and far between, the $4 billion acquisition by the Kerry Stokes-controlled WA Newspapers Holdings to buy most of his other media assets was something of a standout
TO move up or to move out, that is the question Perth planners have been contemplating in recent years as a city built on the quarter acre dream deals with increasing population density issues.
AN urban planning expert has recommended that a long-term infrastructure development strategy for Western Australia be given more importance in order to avoid the issue becoming a casualty of polit
ANAECO chief Patrick Kedemos believes the waste industry is set to undergo a profound, technological shift in the next 20 years comparable to the rapid advances in telecommunications since the adve
WHILE the Barnett government deliberates over its waste policy, Phoenix Energy and local company New Energy are pushing ahead with plans to invest close to $1 billion in waste-to-energy plants in t
The controversial subject of high CEO salaries at state government agencies appears to have gone off the boil as a policy to rein in remuneration appears to have helped stop surprise jumps in pay p
