NEXT year looks like a strong one for the recruitment sector if the strong growth enjoyed in 2002 continues to build.
After a difficult 2001, blighted by corporate collapses around the world and hit even harder by the September 11 terrorist atta
A RECENT union attempt to use the enterprise orders created by WA’s new industrial relations laws has highlighted the Australian Industrial Relations Commission’s unwillingness to engage in State-based industrial relations issues unless some form
THE absence of regulation in the strata management industry has provoked concern about this $28.5 billion sector of the residential property market.
The chairman of a Legislative Assembly inquiry into the strata management industry in WA, Member
A PROPOSAL for an 86-room floating hotel at Barrack Square has been given conditional approval by the City of Perth Council.
The $25 million development proposal, put forward by local operation PH3 Property Group, will now go before the Swan Rive
A COMPANY that rose from the ashes of the failed Geraldton Building Company has won nearly $1.6 million in WA Government contracts in the year since the collapse of Mid West’s biggest construction firm.The company, Geraldton Building Services and Cab...
AS far as Martin Black is concerned, owning his own chocolate company took a lot more work than was the case for the fictional young chap called Charlie who inherited Willy Wonka’s chocolate empire in the famous children’s story.
GRAHAM Laitt is aiming to build a $100 million WA agribusiness enterprise after taking control of Welshpool-based Milne Feeds and folding it into his pastoral holdings.
AN application to convert 153 units in the Paragon CBD Apartments development in the city to serviced apartments has been rejected by the City of Perth.
FOR someone whose work involves so many secrets, former financial journalist turned self-styled financial intelligence operative John McGlue is not one to hide in the shadows.
SPEED is the primary attraction of broadband services to the business community. ADSL, ISDN and cable allow subscribers to move large amounts of data in a fraction of the time required by analogue dial-up connections.
WITH the ink drying on a $2 million contract to supply a chain of eastern States supermarkets, Canon Foods is embarking on further expansion.The convenience foods producer – it focuses on chicken meat – is drawing up the final plans for new faciliti...
A SUPREME Court win by BHP Billiton over third party access to rival iron ore operator Down Holding BV is unlikely to cause the project punters to turn their backs on the region.
Family businesses in WA, be they in their “first” generation or their fourth, are wide and varied, however there is no doubt they are an important contributor to the State’s economy.
A SMALL engineering firm’s revolutionary iron-ore transport wagon has beaten some big engineering names to take out this year’s Institution of Engineers (WA Division) Award.
PROJECTV, a joint initiative between project development managers Clifton Coney Stevens and leisure managers and marketers V3 is being touted as a concept that will change the face of event management in Australia.
BUSINESS investment is expected to provide the source of economic growth for at least the next two years, offsetting the downturn in the building and property sector.
DESPITE recent speculation, news of WA media celebrity Basil Zempilas’s departure from radio station 6PR may have been exaggerated.He hosts 6PR’s Baz and Barra breakfast show with fellow Channel 7 personality Adrian Barich.
CORPORATE intelligence provider John McGlue’s expanded business has forced his departure from Liam Bartlett’s show on ABC radio and the cessation of his regular column in The Australian.
ASSET Special Projects and FDPSavills have been appointed joint agents to market the St Thomas Square subdivision in Subiaco.The urban infill development opposite Kings Park is comprised of 30 lots on the 1.4-hectare site.
Nine months after the terrorist attacks that shook the world, several Western Australians working in the US share their thoughts on the impact of those events.
FOOD-FRYING technology developer VosTech Ltd will no longer focus on the creation of the finest fried foods on offer, deciding instead to move into the arena of investments in animal health biotechnology.
THE Perth office of public relations company Porter Novelli has merged with financial intelligence company Castle Gates Australia.However, despite the merger, both companies will continue to operate individual businesses.
INTEREST rates may be at near 30-year lows, but already debt collection agencies are raking in slabs of new job orders.Dun & Bradstreet last week reported a 200 per cent growth in the number of accounts taken on by the group in 2001.
WORKING hard and enjoying it is one of the overriding principals driving one of WA’s largest family businessesAHG is WA’s second largest private company after the Multiplex Group, according to the WA Business News Book of Company Lists.
Last week, WA Business News reported on the best times to buy new fleets. In his report this week, Gary Kleyn looks at different finance options available to businesses.
DUBAI-BASED airline Emirates, which will commence services between Perth and Dubai in August, has appointed the Perth Cargo Centre as its cargo-handling centre in WA.The Perth Cargo Centre specialises in the handling of perishable items.
KEEPING in touch with employees ‘on the road’ is not always easy.Mobile phones can be out of range, inadvertently switched off, or insufficiently loud to conquer ambient noise.
AS India and Pakistan continued to face off across the line of control in Kashmir, and Pakistan tested a few missiles, the Australian Government was quick to seek assurances and the Opposition at pains to demand more be done.
