INTERIOR designers increasingly are being seen as the knights in shining armour for corporate managers juggling technological change and staff satisfaction, whi
IF there was an award for companies achieving high local content on Western Australian projects, BHP Billiton would take line honours, while Woodside would be a
The world’s appreciation of Western Australian wines is growing, and the efforts of Patrick Salord and other sommeliers is helping drive the success, as Julie-anne Sprague reports.
THE $437 million railcar contract for the planned Mandurah railway highlights the wide gap between rhetoric and reality that sometimes muddies the local content
A recent tasting has left David Pike in awe of that naughty, unpredictable variety that is pinot noir. This wine has a nasty habit of performing inconsistently.
PINOR Noir is a very naughty grape variety because it very rarely behaves on cue.
THE Catalano family know their fish. Indeed, it would be hard not to for a family that has known nothing else since Frank Catalano bought a fish and chip shop more than 30 years ago.
In the third of a six-part series on business lending, Mark Beyer looks at the equipment finance market.
THE equipment finance market has witnessed substantial change over the past couple of years, led by the growing popularity of chattel mortgages.
IT’S an old chestnut, a centuries old law that is a key plank in our legal system – the fact that someone acquitted of a charge may not be tried again for that particular offence.
SOMETHING resembling a Mexican stand-off appears to have developed between Perth City Council (PCC) and Planning Minister Alannah MacTiernan, just when they should be in close contact.
The PCC, for more than a year, has made it clear that it believed M
DESPITE a difficult overall trading environment for insurance firms, Western Australian-based
St Andrew’s Insurance has announced a 32 per cent jump in pre-tax profit for 2002.
CROSS selling, a practice that has been gaining momentum in big businesses for many years, could prove a successful tool for small businesses.
The aim of cross selling is to get more value from each customer.
WITH expressions of interest flooding in from businesses in the Kimberley, Pilbara, Northern Territory and Perth, the 2003 North West Expo is shaping up to be a stellar regional event.
MANAGEMENT at WA’s largest advertising agency Marketforce is awaiting the outcome of weeks of speculation that eastern States-based agency George Patterson Bate
LESS than a year after it was bought out of financial difficulty, Western Australian advertising agency ReynoldStratagem has disappeared from the landscape.
THE home has become a favoured work site, whether on a full-time basis or for the flexibility it can offer.
ABS statistics for the year 2000 say that 20 per cent of people worked in their own home or a home other than their employer’s or client’s home.
A new scheme to maximise local content on major projects formally took effect on January 1. Mark Beyer takes a close look at how major Western Australian projects are performing.
WE read your article on the importance of securing Internet domain names in WA Business News (January 30 2003) and concur that picking a good domain name is imp
COMPANIES hoping to win big contracts from the Western Australian Government are now required to prepare Australian Industry Participation (AIP) plans.
WITH building approvals for private sector houses and total dwelling units falling for the past four months, all indications suggest that WA’s housing boom is on the wane.
PROJECT managers could soon be able to lay their hands on a comprehensive list of project services providers.
Former project manager Horst Kambeck is putting together the
A CALCULATED gamble to establish a weekly newspaper for Australian cricket devotees has turned up trumps for niche market publisher International Publishing Group.
PERTH’S major commercial properties have diverted a critical portion of their lease exposure threat by pushing out lease renewal terms to 10 years, further closing the window of opportunity for Perth’s three major commercial development proposals.
PLANNING and Infrastructure Minister Alannah MacTiernan has released for public comment a public environmental review (PER) of a proposal to develop a 120 hecta