The Retail Traders Association of Western Australia has urged shop owners to act quickly to respond to the rising threat posed by internet shopping, after a new survey showed the majority of households shop online.
DairyWest has added premium yoghurt producer West N Fresh to its investment portfolio, after it today announced the completion of its purchase of Brownes.
Western Australia's Chamber of Commerce and Industry says only a third of respondents to a recent survey believe economic conditions will improve over the next three months.
Perth will host marquee sporting events, including an international hockey tournament, and an arts and culture festival, as the state government attempts to showcase the city during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in October.
Commerce Minister Simon O'Brien has continued the state government's reform of retail tenancies, with the introduction of a new bill in state parliament aimed at protecting small businesses.
Western Australia's workplace safety watchdog says it will appeal the dismissal of charges against Fortescue Metals Group after a cyclone ripped through its rail construction camp in 2007, killing two workers.
Malaga-based ADG Global Supply has won a 12-month contract to supply drilling fluids to NSW-based civil construction and contract drilling firm Arogen.
Perth-based engineering and project management firm AMEC Minproc has won a contract to produce a bankable feasibility study for Arafura Resources' Nolans rare earths project in South Australia.
Henderson-based Strategic Marine has won a contract to provide three high-speed patrol vessels worth nearly $5 million for the Australian Federal Police.
Ian Trahar's takeover bid for Kresta Holdings will close tomorrow, unless it receives enough acceptances to take its interest to more than 40 per cent of the window furnishings company.
While residential construction is declining across the nation, Western Australia's new home building sector has bucked the trend with a 1.5 per cent rise over the December quarter.
Shares in Gindalbie Metals shot up more than nine per cent after the company announced an expansion of its Karara iron ore project and the appointment of a new chief executive.
A Perth-based supplier registration system for the Australian oil and gas industry is to be acquired by Achilles, a global supplier information management service to the industry.
The owners of the Dampier to Bunbury natural gas pipeline and the industry regulator are at odds on the tariff increases users of the pipeline should have to pay.
