Catie Low

THE Merger of Starcom Media, AIS Media, Total Media and Fusion Strategy in Australia has created a powerful new force for the local media buying industry in Perth.

THE Cottesloe Council has supported a request from Kim Gamble's Beachfront Enterprises to run the redeveloped North Cott Café as a BYO venue despite problems on the beachfront with alcohol consumption.

THE Department of Transport has shortlisted three advertising agencies following presentations to the Transperth evaluation panel for their advertising contract.

FOR Roland Butcher, chemistry is the art of creating a persona for a company.“Good design creates a chemistry between a company and its market, when formulated well enough it can be a very powerful reaction,” Mr Butcher said

THE opening of the WA art fair ART0 was an ideal platform for BankWest to launch the $15,000 Inaugural BankWest Contemporary Art Prize for established and emerging WA artists.

PERTH International Arts Festival director Sean Doran believes that if WA people want big name acts, then the budget will have to increase.The Perth International Arts Festival has just released the preliminary financial figures for the 2001 festiva...

CHANNEL Ten and Sydney company Quinto Communications have developed a graphic solution to the slow uptake of widescreen format by advertisers.

MAJOR changes are likely at the Government Media Office following the swearing in of the new Labor Government.GMO director Barry Thornton said the new government had the option of re-employing any of the press secretaries.

THE Rottnest Island Business Association and the town of Amalfi in Italy are hosting a Rottnest Festival with an Italian theme and a famous pizza chef.

SOUTHERN Cross Broadcasting must be rubbing their hands with glee.Not only has the new 96fm breakfast team attracted good ratings, the station has also built on the lucrative 25-39 demographic.

THE Australian news-paper bureau chief Matt Price is leaving Perth to join the press gallery in Canberra.“I'll be phasing out my work here by the end of the month and then I'll be in Canberra for the start of April,” Mr Price said.

MORE than 10 years of nursing a daughter through dancing classes has left Scarborough mum Teresa Sewell with a business legacy that keeps growing.

A THOUSAND years of Japanese culture is on display at a photographic exhibition at the Cullity Gallery at the University of WA.

MEDIA ownership in WA is limited to a small number of mainly national companies that dominate ownership across print, radio and television.

LOCALLY produced travel television series Postcards has announced two new presenters for the new, prime-time slot.In the post-series analysis, Channel Nine determined the series had attracted a new younger demographic and in response two new presen...

LOCAL advertising agency 303 has been targeted by an Australasian super-agency pro-posal led by Sydney-based industry heavyweight Michael Ball.

AUSTEEL has abandoned plans to build an integrated steel mill project in WA's Pilbara region.Instead the steel mill will be built in the New South Wales city of Newcastle, which has a strong history of steel production.Austeel CEO John Elmore said...

LOCAL advertising agencies could face big cuts in advertising budgets for government clients following Labor's election victory.

A QUEENSLAND financial research company has developed a vital tool in the fight for honesty in advertising.

AT a time when the corporate world is shedding its stuffy clothing restrictions and dressing down, it may seem odd for the launch of a new Perth business which only sells top-of-the-range suits.

FERGUSON Hart Estate Wines and the New Collectables Gallery have devised a marketing plan to combine their wine and West Australian Art.

THE Perth Mint's 2001 Australian Nugget 1oz gold coin celebrates Australia's first payable gold find and rewrites a piece of prospecting history.

RAPID growth has forced local strategic marketing company Brain-cells to relocate to more spacious premises at the old fire station in Claremont.

WA leisure company Games R Us is planning to shift its corporate headquarters to Queensland after the $1.4 million purchase of seven Software Today retail stores from the Strathfield Group.

THE Internet has emerged as a powerful tool in the HR industry.

FOLLOWING Channel Seven's decision not to match the Channel Nine consortium bid for the television rights to the AFL, Channel Nine is already moving to build its commentary team.

A HIGH-LEVEL departure at Marketforce has prompted significant changes to the shareholders' register of Perth's biggest advertising agency.

THE Human Resources industry has seen some major changes, apart from the emergence of the Internet in the recruitment process.

There's some pretty powerful political messages appearing around Perth in the last few days of the election campaign, but they're not part of any official advertising campaign.

THE unlikely combination of art and mining has found a unique fusion in an exhibition of Richard Woldendorp's photography.

THE relaunched AQWA is looking to net the lucrative tourist dollar with their revamped underwater exhibition and a radical new marketing plan.

WHILE most advertising agencies are just warming up for 2001, MJB&B have attracted a new national advertising account to their client list.