DROUGHT conditions throughout much of Australia have not stopped farmers from dipping into their pockets to purchase big-ticket tractors and combine harvesters.
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.
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...
BASSENDEAN firm Specialised Welding is one of many local firms to have worked on Woodside's $1.6 billion Train Four project.
However, its client was not Woodside. Instead it was the Japanese pump manufacturer Nikisso.
After working as a mortgage broker for seven years Greg Pennells and his partner, Ross Begley, had become disillusioned and disappointed by the lack of support available to mortgage
Martin Black began his working life as a journalist and followed a common path into public relations. His creation of a chocolate factory, however, was an unusual career move.
THE past few weeks have brought good news to about 20 steel fabricators around Perth.
Engineering firm Monadelphous has been progressively sub-contracting $30 million worth of work for BHP Billiton's Area C iron ore mine and port expansion projects.
In three years Anthony Hasluck has created a number of PR and design-based consultancies that have made Clarity Communications one of the fastest growing consultancies in WA.
Kuppa2 in Claremont has become one of Perth's favourite dining spots and its contemporary food, wine and style have its roots in Tom Lapping's Kuppa restaurant, located in Bangkok.
Nikki Griffiths has experienced the hardship of business early in her career and, at 26, has over-come adversity to create a successful graphic design operation.
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.
