Growers are voting with their wheat, according to WA grain handlers CBH Group, with figures indicating that more than 70 per cent of total tonnages received so far this harvest have gone into warehousing, or to the CBH Group wheat pool.
Agribusiness investment company RuralAus has made it first new investment since emerging from voluntary administration 14 months ago, putting $500,000 into Western Australia’s largest craft brewer, Gage Roads Brewing Company.
Spending more time working in a growing business, as opposed to working on it, can be a barrier for business owners in their ability to develop sustainable growth.
Several local councils could receive ratings payments into the millions of dollars if the state government’s plan to remove ratings exemptions for mining companies under State Mining Agreements comes to fruition.
Caxton Co-operative was developed by five like-minded WA Snap Printing franchise holders as a way of growing their individual businesses by collectively investing in equipment to expand of their services.
With a small team of four, adopting more efficient business practices was vital for MatchPoint Consulting to better service the needs of the state’s resources sector during industry’s boom time.
Australia could have an emissions trading scheme in place, on target to reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by 60 per cent, as soon as 2010, if state and territory leaders get their wish.
Aspects of the federal government’s industrial relations reforms continue to cause problems for business, with the Australian Fair Pay Commission’s first minimum wage ruling last week creating confusion among some Western Australian employers and industry
As CEO of Western Australia’s only carpet manufacturer, Westwools Carpets Pty Ltd, Jim Coles is in no doubt about where he thinks the future of his company, and the manufacturing and textiles industries as a whole, needs to head in order to be competitive
The Western Australian wine industry may take longer to recover from the current wine glut than other wine producing states, due to high production costs and reliance on exports to premium markets.
Already home to more businesses than any other local government precinct, the City of Stirling has further signalled its commerce-friendly regime with a new program designed to cut red tape and streamline regulation approvals.
The shift away from a fly-in, fly-out work culture to a more stable residential workforce is forcing some mining companies, and the state government, to re-evaluate their commitment to infrastructure developments in the regional areas that play home to th
Western Australian growers have missed out on a share of the additional $350 million in drought assistance announced by the federal government this week.
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