Face-to-face fundraising, where charity workers wield a clipboard instead of rattling a tin, seeking your credit card number instead of cash, is a rich source of funds for Western Australian not-for-profit groups.
Law firm Freehills is looking to expand its intellectual property and technology practice in Perth after recruiting Minter Ellison special counsel David Stewart and his two support staff.
Western Australia’s largest private parking and security provider, Wilson, is trialling in Cottesloe new technology it hopes will expand its operations as economic conditions create a shortage of parking bays.
Last month’s announcement by former Fremantle Labor MHR, Carmen Lawrence, that she intends to return to academe raises an interesting triple-headed historical question.
Like many other Western Australians, I enjoy wines from the state. Admittedly, my loyalty to WA-only products has waned over the years as I have learned to appreciate that our winemakers have some worthy competition elsewhere around the globe.
The 2007 harvest has been a welcome relief for grape producers in WA, with unexpected sales to east coast operators easing the burden of oversupply. But the glut is yet to be fully overcome.
Fortescue Metals Group Ltd boss Andrew Forrest laid the groundwork for his current wealth four years ago this month when he negotiated a deal with Allied Mining & Processing.
Rod Mollett has wasted no time in his new role as president of the local chapter of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects in echoing calls for Perth to embrace what many claim is a once in a lifetime opportunity.
Western Australian regional building and property group, Perkins Pty Ltd, has taken a 50 per cent stake in Perth-based swimming pool contractor, AVP Construction, which has a major foothold in Sydney.
The ongoing dispute between the Town of Victoria Park and the City of Belmont over the fate of Belmont Park racecourse will come to a head next week at what is expected to be a fiery round of public hearings.
It has been a long time since anyone thought seriously about investing in WA’s Wheatbelt region for the potential of a substantial future capital gain.
Matilda Bay Restaurant owner and general manager Warwick Lavis is in the midst of a $2 million overhaul of what many consider one of Perth’s best riverside restaurants.
Parking and security player, Wilson Parking, has bought its fourth Western Australian security agency in two years with the purchase of Shelf Security in Dampier, one of the north-west’s largest security agencies.
The Western Australian entrepreneurs who have created the most wealth in the non-mining sector are led by people who spent most of their business life running private companies before opting for a sharemarket float.
The iron ore boom has underpinned the enormous wealth of Fortescue Metals Group Ltd managing director Andrew Forrest, and it has also boosted the wealth of some of Western Australia’s most famous families.
There may be a host of rags-to-riches tales among the executives enjoying the share price spoils of their publicly listed entities, but it’s a storyline that also extends to the private sector.
WA Business News’ Wealth Creators may be sitting on enormous fortunes, but that wealth is predominately on paper. And while the stock market can push the value of an individual’s shareholding up, it can just as easily make the wealth disappear.
The resources boom has swelled the job books for many of the country’s engineering firms, which in turn has lifted company profits and share prices and lined the pockets of some of the industry’s long-serving executives.
UK-based industrial services company Cape PLC has withdrawn from discussions surrounding a potential takeover bid for Malaga-based scaffolding and form-work supplier PCH Group Ltd, saying it had been unable to have meaningful engagement with the company.
The increase in Perth industrial rents is showing no signs of easing this year in the face of soaring land values, building costs and competing land uses from commercial and retail sectors.
No boom lasts forever, but over the past week Briefcase has seen evidence that this boom really is something completely different and might, just might, live up to the expectation
