Australia's competition watchdog has delivered a potential boost to private trucking and rail freight operators by ruling that CBH group cannot continue its monopoly practices in the grain market.
WESTERN Australian grains handler Co-operative Bulk Handling, also known as CBH Group, has been ranked number one for the second consecutive year in Co-operatives Australia's top-100 list, based on annual turnover.
Many not-for-profit organisations are rethinking their business model as the lines between the public, private and charitable sectors become more opaque.
CBH Group shareholders will get their chance to vote on the group's restructuring initiatives and its new constitution at an extraordinary general meeting to be held in May.
GRAIN handler and marketer CBH Group says access to competitive capital will not be a constraint on its growth after deciding to retain its existing cooperative structure.
Grain exporter CBH Group has had a major win over the Australian Tax Office, with the Federal Court upholding its May ruling that enshrined the co-operative's tax-exempt status today.
CBH Group has awarded its long-term grain rail contract to US transportation group Watco Companies, replacing QR National subsidiary Australian Railroad Group.
Grain storage, handling and marketing co-operative CBH Group is exploring new corporate structures that may require it to pay tax, despite a long battle with the government to protect its tax-exempt status.
CBH Group expects to announce its preferred governance model at a shareholders meeting next month after a resolution to change its structure was quashed.
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.