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Calneggia Family Vineyards

Fogarty takes gold medal

Mark Pownall Mark Pownall
15 May 2017

SPECIAL REPORT: Fogarty Wine Group has built its brand over two decades to top the list of WA’s major producers.

Vasse Felix

Vasse Felix realising great ambition

Mark Pownall Mark Pownall
15 May 2017

SPECIAL REPORT: Paul Holmes a Court plans for Margaret River’s oldest winery may not come to fruition in his lifetime.

Quintis

Quintis goes into trading halt

Business News Business News
15 May 2017

Shares in sandalwood company Quintis have gone into a trading halt, after horrific losses last week including a nearly 36 per cent fall on Friday.

CBH Group

Ingham's in $70m WA poultry investment

Matt Mckenzie Matt Mckenzie
15 May 2017

Poultry producer Ingham’s Chicken will invest more than $70 million to build a new feed mill near Muchea as part of a plan to grow production volumes in Western Australia.

Accolade Wines

Spirit revives as wine returns to balance

Mark Pownall Mark Pownall
15 May 2017

SPECIAL REPORT: After a gruelling decade, even a desultory 2016-17 summer could not dampen the growing enthusiasm among WA winemakers.

Quintis

Quintis drops 36 per cent on downgrades

Matt Mckenzie Matt Mckenzie
12 May 2017

Ratings agencies Moody’s and S&P have downgraded the debt of agribusiness Qunitis, while private equity fund Black Rock revealed it had taken a 5.1 per cent stake in the company.

Quintis

Quintis smashed by contract loss

Matt Mckenzie Matt Mckenzie
10 May 2017

Shares in sandalwood supplier Quintis were down 44 per cent today after the company admitted it had lost a contract supplying Nestle five months ago, the second issue relating to a contract this year.

Ocean Grown Abalone

Harvesting the ocean's bounty

Attila Csaszar Attila Csaszar
08 May 2017

PHOTO ESSAY: Workers from Ocean Grown Abalone will install 5,000 concrete habitats, or Abitats, at Augusta during the next 18 months as part of anexpansion of the company’s aquaculture business.

Ocean Grown Abalone

Growing quality seafood in its natural Abitat

Matt Mckenzie Matt Mckenzie
08 May 2017

The aquaculture and fisheries industries are both attracting investor interest as businesses float significant growth plans.

Quintis

Quintis renegotiates $34m acquisition

Business News Business News
01 May 2017

Sandalwood producer Quintis has negotiated a second deferral of an option agreement that could see it having to pay nearly $34 million to buy back 400 hectares of plantations, as the company confirmed it was in advanced negotiations with a possible replacement for a key Chinese customer.

Former AWB chair Flugge fined $50,000

Business News Business News
10 Apr 2017

Former Australian Wheat Board chairman Trevor Flugge has been fined $50,000 and barred from managing corporations for five years, after he was convicted in December of breaching his duties as a director while the company was making questionable payments to the government of Iraq.

Wellard

Wellard taps investors for $52 million

Mark Beyer AAP
03 Apr 2017

Loss-making livestock exporter Wellard is undertaking a share placement and entitlement offer as part of a $52 million capital raising it hopes will allow it to exploit a predicted improvement in trading conditions.

CBH Group

Crane to retire as CBH boss

Business News Business News
31 Mar 2017

CBH Group chief executive Andrew Crane is stepping down from the role after eight years at the helm of Australia's largest grain exporter, with the group to immediately begin a search for his successor.

Quintis

Matthys takes on Quintis CEO role

Fraser Beattie Fraser Beattie
31 Mar 2017

Former BHP Billiton executive Julius Matthys has been named interim chief executive of Quintis, after Frank Wilson resigned on Tuesday to plot a takeover of the Indian sandalwood producer.

Quintis

Wilson quits Quintis as takeover looms

Fraser Beattie Fraser Beattie
28 Mar 2017

An extraordinary twist has emerged in the Quintis saga, with founder and managing director Frank Wilson resigning to work with an unnamed overseas corporation that is planning a takeover proposal of the Perth-based Indian sandalwood producer.

Quintis

Quintis stands firm on ASX queries

Fraser Beattie Fraser Beattie
27 Mar 2017

Quintis temporarily put the brakes on its falling share price by entering into a trading halt this morning, as it compiled a lengthy response to queries raised by the ASX.

Agri-researchers testing growth

Matt Mckenzie Matt Mckenzie
27 Mar 2017

Agribusiness consultancy Kalyx Australia will pursue growth opportunities in horticulture research following its recent merger with Peracto WA, the local franchise of the Tasmania-based Peracto research brand.

Quintis

Quintis shares continue slide

Fraser Beattie Fraser Beattie
23 Mar 2017

Freshly renamed Indian sandalwood producer Quintis has suffered another share price slide, prompting a query from the ASX, following short-seller Glaucus Research Group’s scathing report into the Nedlands-based business yesterday.

Quintis

TFS rejects Ponzi claims

Fraser Beattie Fraser Beattie
22 Mar 2017

Indian sandalwood producer TFS Corporation has blasted US-based short-seller Glaucus Research Group for a scathing report which accused the Perth company of operating a Ponzi-like business structure.

Murdoch University

Murdoch to be part of $40m soil centre

Business News Business News
16 Mar 2017

Murdoch University has been named among 42 organisations across Australia charged with establishing a consortium to boost the nation’s agricultural sector.

Wellard

Hong Kong company onto Wellard register

Matt Mckenzie Matt Mckenzie
03 Mar 2017

A Hong Kong-based company has joined the share register of live export business Wellard International just days after Holmes a Court family entity Heytesbury Holdings took a stake.

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