Special Report: WA Dynasties

Old or emerging, disruptions to dynasties have the potential to make or break their businesses.

Tributes to advertising campaigns adorn Betts Group's Osborne Park office, an addition to the otherwise humble accommodation that suggests the business puts its flair into marketing its wares – dress and fashion shoes.

Second-generation business Quickmail has survived and subsequently thrived through a very disruptive cycle, the arrival of the internet and the subsequent digitisation of communications and marketing.

When Kent Egerton-Warburton started writing software in the early 1980s, little did he know that the language he was using was far more readily understood in the bush than the BASIC code he used.