While it's well understood that unique, iconic structures can define a city, there's little consensus as to what such a building would look like in Perth.
Stan Perron is one of the state’s most successful entrepreneurs, having created an empire of immense proportions fuelled initially by his Toyota franchise and then iron ore royalties, and more recently by significant property assets and equities.
A largely hidden side of wealth creation is in the private sector, where successful entrepreneurs have built considerable businesses, in many cases with their families or over more than one generation.
Arts groups and charities in Western Australia have long argued that the state lacks the culture of giving evident in larger capitals such as Sydney and Melbourne.
WEST Coast Group Corporate Super has achieved a five-fold increase in funds under advice over the past three years and today has a healthy slice of the $1 billion a week Australian superannuation industry.
WHILE there’s a push from some quarters to bring more high-yielding tourists to the state’s South West, I was interested to notice the attitude of the locals towards this on a recent trip to Dunsborough.
Henderson-based shipbuilder, Strategic Marine Pty Ltd, has won the WA Business News 2008 Rising Stars Award on the back of a seven-year growth campaign.
IT’S an exclusive industry reserved for the super-rich, and Western Australia is right in the thick of the action as a supplier of some of the world’s best super-yachts.
Worth a tamper
ACCORDING to Greg Pullman, manufacturer of the Greg Pullman tampers, Western Australia is a very progressive state when it comes to all things coffee.
IN a little more than 12 months, weight loss franchise Kate Morgan WA has taken a leadership role in Western Australia’s competitive weight loss market, signing up more than 50 pharmacy outlets.
WHILE growing numbers of major international fashion labels are making their way into Perth’s most stylish fashion address, King Street, two Perth fashion entrepreneurs are putting their own unique stamp on the strip.
IN just four years, Osborne Parkbased Powertech has become a formidable completions service provider for the oil and gas, power, distribution and mineral resource industries in Australia.
NOW in its sixth year, the Rising Stars Awards is a program aimed at private Western Australian-based companies that are experiencing fast and exciting growth.
KARRATHA-BASED Carr Civil Contracting has relied on three cornerstone principles to steer its growth – focus on the end goal, build a strong committed team of people, and grow sustainably.
PERTH’S rapidly developing cuisine and coffee culture has been spun-off into the virtual world, with a small group of food bloggers now posting their personal views online.
The planned opening of a new cellar door next year is a further development in the partnership between two established wine industry families and second generation winemakers.
Winemaker Stuart Pym has been appointed by Margaret River wine producer Stella Bella Wines to head up production at the mid-tier locally-owned company.
Winemakers are bracing for an increase in taxes after the federal government took its first steps towards fighting binge drinking with the imposition of an additional levy on the ready-to-drink sector of the market.
A mid-year fall in the number of new dwellings bought by first homebuyers was one of the first signs of a softening in Western Australia’s housing market in 2007.
