* A TEAM of Curtin Business School students – including a brother and sister – has won the WA undergraduate division of the Andersen Consulting Intervaristy Management Competition. The students will now attend the national finals of the competition at the
BANKWEST has recorded a $68.8 million after tax profit for the six months to August 31.The profit was down from the $69.4 million profit for the corresponding period, but that included an abnormal of $5.4 million from the creation of PlanB.
“LOSING money in this business is very easy,” says Clough Limited managing director Brian Hewitt.“You have to learn from those bad experiences,” Dr Hewitt said.
THERE should be more to WA’s rail freight business than grain and minerals, says World Rail president Ed Burkhardt.Mr Burkhardt is advising the Black Swan Rail consortium that is one of four tenderers for Westrail’s $250 million a year freight business.
UNIONS will be back directing WA’s industrial relations policy if Labor is elected.WA Labor leader Geoff Gallop said individual contracts would remain under a Labor Government but would be underpinned by Federal Awards.
BIG Belly Bus Caterers has relaunched following its purchase for an undisclosed sum in June by All Venues and Encore Hospitality managing director Nigel Claydon.
SINCE the 1970s – some would say the late 60s – the US dollar has risen above gold as a fiduciary standard to become the currency others are measured by.The Greenback was even recently adopted as the currency for a struggling South American nation.
AlintaGas closes earlyTHE AlintaGas public offer will close nine days ahead of schedule. Energy Minister Colin Barnett said the retail offer for stapled securities in the company would close at 5pm on Friday. He said there would be a final round of
TAKING on new employees is one of the biggest challenges a small business will face.Combined Small Business Associations of WA president Oliver Moon said labour costs were the most significant small business costs.
* THE Keep Australia Beautiful Council has announced the 12 Perth Action Awards winners.Amcor Paper Mill and Recycling took Perth’s Best Large Business and Industry award while Matilda Bay Brewing won Perth’s Best Small Business and Industry award.
Business expectations fallThe CCI/BankWest Survey of Business Expectations for the coming year in Western Australia fell by 42.7 per cent in the year to September 2000. Between June and September, the balance of sentiment decreased by 13.8 per cent.
WA’S independent grocers are disappointed with the long-awaited Retail Grocery Industry Code of Conduct.The voluntary code is part of the Federal Government’s response to last year’s Fair Market or Market Failure report.
INDEPENDENTS are likely to decide the outcome of the next WA Government election, says former WA Liberal Party leader turned political lobbyist Barry MacKinnon.
A RECENT court case in Victoria could have serious repercussions for WA local governments seeking to outsource.The Federal Court found a Victorian council had unfairly dismissed employees when it attempted to outsource its health care division.
IT’S not often that the Australian Army is ready, willing and able to place an order for 1000 tanks, armoured personnel carriers, and self-propelled guns.
