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.
Armed with a single power saw, nail bag, some borrowed materials and plenty of ambition, registered builder Pedro Turibaka began work on his first construction site, a small East Pe
From beginnings as a one-man operation in 1992, Carmelo Princiotto has built his business, Jamel Industries, into one of WA's largest domestic furniture manufacturers, specialising
Going to the dentist isn't many people's idea of a fun day out, but Dr Fiona Kelly has created a dentistry business that has become cherished by the Geraldton community.
Graeme Yukich made the headlines in August last year following his decision to walk away from a successful 12-year career at Hartleys and to go his own way.
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.
