PLAYING cards with an event manager would be tricky for two reasons – they combine a poker-faced approach to business with a flair for developing a winning hand, whatever cards they've been dealt.
BURSWOOD International Resort Casino believes the major refurbishment completed in late 2001 leaves it well placed to face extra competition in the MICE market.
NEWLY appointed Perth Convention Exhibition Centre chief executive Paul D'Arcy hopes a whole-of-city approach will help place Perth among the list of top international convention destinations.
IT may surprise some that Australia has never had a Gold Week, but there are no prizes for guessing which State will host the first ever such event, nor for naming the organisation behind the initiative.
THE Western Australian Turf Club is aggressively marketing its racecourses as premier outdoor event locations in an effort to attract non-race related functions and exhibitions to the Ascot and Belmont sites.
DESPITE a rising Australian dollar and the fallout from recent terrorist attacks in Bali and the US, Western Australia's incentive travel operators are expecting strong growth.
WHILE most ports are “steaming along very nicely”, Planning and Infrastructure Minister Alannah MacTiernan acknowledges she and some port authorities have faced several difficult situations in the past two years.
WA regional ports' executive management and their boards are overseeing major expansions, planning for trade in new commodities, and negotiating rural industry setbacks.
MUCKINBUDIN wheat farmer Allan Watson and Morawa wheat farmer Chris Moffet should have a lot in common.
But their common interest in the future of WA's grains industry is divided by their off-farm roles.
DROUGHT conditions throughout much of Australia have not stopped farmers from dipping into their pockets to purchase big-ticket tractors and combine harvesters.
ELEVEN years ago, a small group of WA farmers shook up the State's fertiliser market when they started undercutting the big players with cheap imports.
PART of the folklore of Christmas Island revolves around the fire that swept through the union offices not long after the death of union secretary Gordon Bennett.
IT has been a fascinating year at Christmas Island company Phosphate Resources Limited, which has been embroiled in a shareholder squabble since Como-based Asset Backed Holdings entered the company's register in 2002 and its directors...
ONE week after surviving a threatened Aliquot Asset Management boardroom spill, Michael Perrott and Antony Rigoll have avoided a similar battle with shareholders at Phosphate Resources Limited by stepping down as directors.
Dr Paul Watt's research discoveries at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research laboratories have resulted in the formation of the institute's first spin-off company, Phylog
OVER the past two years, Western Australian companies have been awarded contracts worth more than $1.7 billion on big mining and resource processing projects.
After five years at Telstra, where she worked her way up to the position of senior corporate account executive, managing one of Telstra's top accounts, Deanne Pederson jumped ship a
Since losing his mother and sister in a car accident at just seven years of age, Paul Hennessy has developed a desire to live life to its full and a tenacity to overcome adversity.
For the past 15 years Professor Duane Varan has balanced a lecturing career in both Perth and the US with consultancy work for the A-list in world commerce.
In 1985 Andrew Ford and his business partner, Kyle Doonan, decided to open a small air-conditioning business. The pair used second-hand vans and second-hand tools.
