Over the month of June, the market capitalisation of Western Australian listed companies featured in the Deloitte WA Index maintained record highs and performed considerably better than all other major indices.
The first stages of Perth Airport's $1 billion redevelopment have commenced with work starting on the aircraft parking apron, which will service the new intra-state terminal, Terminal WA.
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Newly-listed engineering company Emerson Stewart Group Ltd said it is on track to beat its fiscal 2008 earnings forecast, as outlined in its prospectus, by at least 5 per cent.
Around 85 per cent of accommodation providers in the metropolitan and South West region may be without clean sheets next week as Prime Laundry reveals it has been without gas for the last three days.
The state gas crisis is expected to cut Alumina Ltd's underlying earnings by $31 million for the June quarter after the company revised down the impact for the month of June.
Only one more hurdle remains for the $400 million sale of Cape Lambert Iron Ore Ltd's namesake project to MCC Mining, which today received Chinese government approval.
Western Australia's gas crisis has already cost $2.4 billion in lost turnover and is expected to rise to $6.7 billion as the state's peak business group predicts economic growth will ease this financial year.
Changing diets in the world's emerging economies and global food security issues could potentially present the local food industry with a wealth of opportunities.
Counting her father, WorleyParsons Australian managing director Peter Meurs, as one of her mentors, it's little wonder 24-year-old Lisa Grinceri has achieved business success at such a young age.
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Research and treatment of Alzheimer's disease is due to get a boost on two fronts, with a new charitable foundation to be launched this month and a second foundation commencing a $10 million fund raising campaign.
Taking over one of Perth's most popular eateries in the middle of the economic boom is among the biggest challenges Albasio La Pegna, the man who brought Funtastico to Subiaco, can recall during his 25-year career.
A NEW inter-departmental group has been formed by the state government to address the shortage of sand for building and construction work in the South West.
The food-manufacturing sector requires urgent action from government if it is to remain viable in the future, according to industry representatives at the WA Business News forum.
The Western Australian food manufacturing industry is at a crossroads, with rising costs and a changing retail marketplace threatening the sector's future viability. Janelle Macri reports.
