Mark Beyer

ALINTA managing director Bob Browning has accused the banking syndicate that controlled the protracted sale of the Dampier to Bunbury natural gas pipeline of “holding the State to ransom”.

The Japanese banking group that agreed last week to back ailing biotech company Chemeq has an old Perth connection. Mark Beyer reports.

THE Dampier to Bunbury natural gas pipeline generates monthly income of about $23 million and gross profits of more than $16 million a month, a report by former receiver and manager Korda-Mentha has disclosed.

SPORT is rarely far from business in the world of Neil Hamilton, who is a huge fan of Australian Rules and Rugby Union football.

OUTSOURCING by the booming mining industry has been good news for fast-growing Hazelmere company Action Mining Services, which opened new and expanded premises this month.

A NEW scheme designed to help Western Australian farmers gain international recognition for sustainable practices has been endorsed by one of the world’s largest grocery groups.

PERTH investors with an appetite for risk and a taste for something totally different are being offered an opportunity to back the development of a new kind of ‘less lethal’ ammunition.

ACCOUNTING firm Ernst & Young will cap off another year of growth this month by moving into new premises that are 40 per cent larger than its current Central Park offices.

Nanotechnology company pSivida has emerged this year as Western Australia’s largest biotechnology stock. Mark Beyer reports on its global progress.