ARE customers from hell really worth the effort?Many businesses, particularly small ones, continue to deal with customers who are difficult and unprofitable to the seller, purely because they think any sale is a good sale.
SUPERSTORE Harvey Norman, who has had a presence in the South West for some time, is expanding.Growth in the region has spurred it on to create a more substantial site for its Bunbury operation.
TASMANIAN and western bluegum plantations planted in the South West eight or nine years ago are about to bear fruit.Thousands of hec-tares have been planted and by 2000 and 2001 significant tonnages are expected to be taken.
WORK is expected to start before September on the $16 million Bijou Marina Village near Busselton.Already pre-sales are worth more than $5 million, representing 60 per cent of stage one of the project with ten residences sold.
WOMEN are still lagging behind men in the economic stakes, according to a preliminary report commissioned by the Commonwealth and State Ministers for the Status of Women.
PASTA has been enjoyed for centuries and by tradition, Italian people have consumed more than the rest of the world’s population put together. The picture is now changing.
WESTERN Australian women are leading the country in new business start-ups, according to recent research from the Small Business Develop-ment Corporation.
MINISTER for Women’s Interests Rhonda Parker has recently announced 21 projects to receive funding through round three of the Centenary of Women’s Suffrage grants program.
Whether people personally lost a job or not, the downsizing of the ’80s and ’90s has created a paradigm shift in the way people view their work life and manage their careers.
A Perth-based recruitment company has received favourable attention for its newly released online invoice/timesheet system.The systems marries human resource management, cost accounting and knowledge management in one system.
EMPLOYMENT National has placed more than 75,000 people across Australia into jobs in its first year of operation.It listed more than 130,000 vacancies since April 1998 and has approximately 25,000 job seekers registered in WA.
