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Heytesbury's $8.5 million plan to revamp the Margaret River Hotel has been given the green light, despite councillors withdrawing support over a move to waive the public art contribution.

Private company Heytesbury has cleared its first hurdle in an $8.5 million plan to modernise and expand the heritage-listed Margaret River Hotel, receiving the backing of the local council.

WA-based pastoral and winery company Heytesbury has reported its profit doubled in 2021 amid valuation gains driven primarily by its cattle business.

Financially strapped live exporter Wellard is cutting its fleet size from four to three with the sale of the world's largest purpose-built livestock carrier for $US53 million ($A77 million).

Heytesbury has been gazumped by a company from Luxembourg after it struck a deal to purchase Wellard's M/V Ocean Swagman.

Revenue at agribusiness Heytesbury Holding dropped 14 per cent to be $47.7 million in the year to December, but sales income was steady.

The state government has announced Janet Holmes a Court will replace Sam Walsh as chair of the Art Gallery of WA, amidst uncertainty around the future of chief executive Stefano Carboni.

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Profit at pastoral and winery business Heytesbury Holdings fell more than 57 per cent in the year to December 2016, to $11.7 million, on the back of lower revenue.

Fremantle-based livestock exporter Wellard has appointed Chinese businessman Kanda Lu as an executive director in an effort to boost the company's expansion into China's beef cattle market.

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The major shareholders in Wellard, including China's Fulida Group Holdings and local agribusiness Heytesbury, are expected to lift their stake in the livestock exporter after a big shortfall from its rights issue.

Loss-making livestock exporter Wellard is undertaking a share placement and entitlement offer as part of a $52 million capital raising it hopes will allow it to exploit a predicted improvement in trading conditions.

A Hong Kong-based company has joined the share register of live export business Wellard International just days after Holmes a Court family entity Heytesbury Holdings took a stake.

The investment vehicle of Pakistani meat producer Tariq Butt has sold its remaining 9.5 per cent stake in Wellard to private company Heytesbury, at a premium to the listed agribusiness's recent trading price.

Iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group has named non-executive director and former Helloworld and Heytesbury executive, Elizabeth Gaines, as its new chief financial officer.

A period of strong cattle prices has boosted Western Australia's largest pastoral companies, with the state's four biggest cattle-focused plays increasing revenue about 9 per cent to $1 billion in their most recent annual reports.

Perhaps best known these days for her support of the local arts and culture scene, Janet Holmes a Court spoke to Business News over lunch at Julio's in West Perth about her first career as a teacher, how she was thrust into corporate life following the sudden death of her husband, Robert, and her current projects.

WA business leaders have bemoaned the state government's failure to plan for life beyond the mining construction boom, but still see opportunities in other sectors.

Susan Symmons has been appointed as general counsel and company secretary for Pioneer Credit Limited.

The energy and education sectors are going through a paradigm shift and businesses must adapt if they want to survive, let alone prosper, some of WA's most successful entrepreneurs told Business News.

Gaines first woman on Fortescue board