WESTERN Australia's two peak farming organisations have taken opposing sides in the debate over the governance of grain handling and marketing cooperative CBH Group.
The Pastoralist and Glaziers Association has weighed into the debate on the future structure of CBH Group supporting a push to change the board's makeup.
A dissident bloc of CBH Group shareholders has requisitioned an extraordinary general meeting to seek changes to the grain handling and marketing group's board of directors.
GRAIN storage, handling and marketing giant CBH Group has won a Federal Court appeal over its tax-exempt status that could have cost it millions of dollars a year.
Grain storage, handling and marketing giant CBH Group has won a Federal Court appeal over its tax-exempt status that could have cost it millions of dollars a year.
Grain handler and marketer CBH Group is currently Western Australia's largest not-for-profit business, but whether it retains that status depends on a review of the best way to serve its members.
CBH Group has announced a rebranding of its core business units, to more accurately reflect its key objectives, as a result of the group's 77th Annual General Meeting held today in Perth.
CBH Group, one of Western Australia's largest businesses, is likely to remain a cooperative after WA farmers elected directors who are in favour of keeping its current structure.
CBH Resources has decided to develop its Panorama copper-zinc project in the Pilbara as an underground mine with capital costs estimated at $150 million.
Grain handling and exporting group CBH has changed the way it charges for its services, to accomodate growers who use alternative transport arrangements in the deregulated grains market.
The competition watchdog has rejected port access arrangements proposed by grain handlers CBH Group, ABB and Graincorp, saying there needed to be more clarity and transparency for wheat exporters.
Grain handler CBH Group says it will pay users of its Grain Pool or CBH Grain marketing systems as a reward for their loyalty, in a program that could deliver around $15 million back to growers.
The current backlog of ships has prompted grains handler CBH Group to implement a temporary system that will see grain marketers bid for shipping slots to export grain.
Takeover target Perilya says it has lodged its "concerns" to market and corporate watchdogs over suitor CBH Resources' response to a $45 million placement to a Chinese company.
Miner CBH Resources has slammed the board of its takeover target Perilya over the recommendation to shareholders to approve a $45 million share placement to a Chinese company.
Takeover target Perilya Ltd said it is open to CBH Resources Ltd's bid for the company, but advises a merger at a time of market volatility could expose shareholders to additional risks.
Zinc producer CBH Resources Ltd has launched a hostile $65 million takeover bid for Perilya Ltd, just over two months after the companies terminated a friendly merger proposal.
THE resources sector may generate the lion's share of the state's export revenue, but the agricultural industry is also creating significant revenues, particularly grain exports.
Perth-based grain handler CBH Group has refuted AWB Ltd's claims to the corporate watchdog that its grain supply chain proposal will lessen competition.
Lead and zinc miner Perilya Ltd has been granted a trading halt, saying that its merger with fellow mid tier miner CBH Resources Ltd is nearing completion.
Base metals miner CBH Resources Ltd, which is planning to merge with Perth-based Perilya later this year, is undertaking a major corporate and operational restructure to help it withstand falling commodity prices.
THE new president of Western Australia's Pastoralists and Graziers Association claims short-sighted local grain growers have succeeded in ‘beaching' their handling cooperative, CBH Ltd, limiting the p
The CBH Group has rejected calls from the Western Australian Government for a delay in the introduction of the new accreditation system of export wheat marketing.
A board battle at zinc, lead and silver miner CBH Resources Ltd has seen the company appoint a corporate advisor to examine control and ownership issues, following the failure of a resolution to remove company chairman Jim Wall.
GRAIN handler and marketer CBH Group has signed a ten-year agreement with ethanol producer Primary Energy to supply grain to its $180 million Kwinana biofuel facility.
Perth-based grain handler CBH Group has signalled it will continue pushing for more deregulation of the wheat export market after the federal government granted only a small part of its application for an export licence.
