Staff Reporters

Europe in style - Subiaco-based Automotive Events Management is behind a tour with an automotive flavour that takes in the sights of Europe in the luxury of fine automobiles.

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ALCOA vice president, Alan Cransberg, has been appointed president of Global Primary Products Australia, effective February 1, 2008.

Contact Uranium Ltd has appointed Geoff Blackburn as chief technical officer.

The Supply Chain & Logistics Association of Australia is holding a supply chain & logistics leadership forum titled ‘Introducing change', October 25 at the Technology Park Function Centre in Bentley.

PERTH'S housing market is staging a modest recovery with the median house price reaching $460,000 in the September quarter and tipped to keep rising until the new year, according to the Real Estate In

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Jeff DowlingManaging partner Western Region Ernst & Young 

PROFITS of Western Australian medium-sized businesses have grown at three times the rate of businesses in New South Wales and twice the rate in Victoria over the past year, according to the latest Pri

The John Curtin Institute of Public Policy is hosting a public conversation between Justice Michael Kirby and Professor Greg Craven, October 22 at The Constitutional Centre in West Perth.

HOW much Australians are eating is not usually an area that interests business, except perhaps supermarket retailers and takeaway food companies.

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SHARES in Midwest Corporation Ltd surged last week on the back of Murchison Metals Ltd's $939 million hostile takeover bid for the iron ore miner.

REMEMBER when you were in school and you got your report card? And you were so nervous that you didn't open it, because you thought there were bad grades, and you just couldn't look?

FOR those readers who like to keep fit on the Swan River foreshore and have ever had a stoush with a fellow cyclist or runner, rest assured – the risk of a near collision is about to be reduced.

Kim Snowball has been appointed CEO of the WA Country Health Service at the Department of Health.

Howard promises $34b tax cut; PBL defers planned denerger; AGL Energy slashes 2008 earnings outlook; Cape to sweeten $230m bid; Zinifex and Umicore to sell 70pct in Nyrstar.

Howard promises "right leadership", Rudd "new leadership"; CBH makes big step in shipping sector; Investors preparing for six weeks of uncertainty; Pratt under public scrutiny on price-fixing; Nine and Fox bid record $117m for 2010 and 2012 Olympics right

Balcatta-based technology investment company ST Synergy Ltd will buy the remaining 49 per cent of its major asset, Panorama Labs Pty Ltd, from the administrators of the company.

Midwestplays down relationship with Sinosteel; re-elected Howard would call referendum to recognise indigenous; $133.5b worth of Boeing delayed; best job figures could bring interest rate increase; WA mining leader says the state is asleep at the wheel

Murchison opens $938m bid for Midwest; World economy to be tested by the recent credit squeeze; QLD launches $654m rail funding; construction market plummets in August; Gorgon project granted environmental approval.

CCC says Burke and Grill did nothing illegal; Evans & Tate may have been insolvent before calling administrators; Howard and Brumby give Pratt support; Health Care attacks on Healthscope takeover plans for Symbion; Kintyre deposit in bidding war.

DISABILITY services group Activ has appointed Tony Vis as chief executive.

Briscoe Search & Consulting has appointed Amanda Shirley as a consultant.

ALUMINIUM producer Alcoa of Australia is preparing to relocate some members of its Booragoon team, with a new purpose-built office in Pinjarra close to completion and a refurbishment of its existing o

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Dr Matthew Painter has been appointed general manager exploration for Sabre Resources Ltd.

WHEN Transperth announced it was offering frustrated commuters a free trip to work aboard Rottnest Express' Star Flyte cruiser this week complete with a complimentary Gino's coffee, Fremantle Mayor Pe

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PERTH businesses FX Digital, CommtechWireless Pty Ltd and WAVE Engineering have won prizes in their respective categories at the 2007 WA Small Business Champion awards this week.

The Property Council of Australia (WA) is hosting a luncheon seminar on how the property funds management revolution is re-defining property investment in WA, October 19 at Burswood Entertainment Comp

ISS Group Ltd managing director Shane Atwell has increased his indirect interest in the company through the conversion of 6.2 million unlisted options valued at $1.5 million.