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Western Australian jeweller Linneys has launched an online store to complement its bricks and mortar showrooms, making its high-end products available to a global audience for the first time.

Chairman of education provider Navitas, Harvey Collins, has joined the ranks of some of the top business leaders in WA by winning the Australian Institute of Company Directors gold medal award for WA.

Retailers are increasingly trying to find a balance between having an online presence and getting shoppers through the door of traditional stores.

P&N Bank has appointed Sean FitzGerald as its new general manager, retail banking and distribution.

Roleystone woman Hayley Goad has been selected by the Cattle Council of Australia as WA Beef Industry Rising Champion, and will head to Canberra for the NAB Agribusiness Beef Industry Rising Champions Initiative national final.

The business banking sector is shrinking in Perth, with falling staff levels and bank branch closures the latest signs of a cooling Western Australian economy.

Perth's hotel development boom is continuing to gather steam, with plans submitted for a $30 million, 15-storey hotel to be built at 100 James Street in Northbridge.

Katana Asset Management wins top Aussie fund ranking as Euroz expands investment management business.

Perth-based stockbroker Euroz has appointed former MLC chief executive Steve Tucker to head up a new funds management subsidiary as the company eyes opportunities in the listed investment company sector.

No business sets out to deliberately make life hard for clients, especially if the client base includes some of Australia's richest people, which is why a recent technology change at the blueblood stockbroking firm JB Were is an example of how not to change a system.

Western Australia's unemployment rate has remained at 4.9 per cent in April, in line with the national rate which has held steady at 5.8 per cent.

The alignment of chief executive salary packages with market capitalisation has been highlighted in Business News' latest quarterly salary survey.

WA financial services company AFG has grown over 20 years to become a major player in the national home loans market and aims to get bigger.

Armadale, Cockburn, Joondalup, Mandurah, Perth CBD and Woodlands have been tipped to be the metropolitan area's top suburbs for price growth during the next 12 months.

More than a decade of 40under40 winners represent the changing face of new business in WA.

QUBE Property Group managing director Mark Hector and Emeco Holdings chief executive Ken Lewsey are among five business leaders appointed to the board of Lifeline WA, as the not-for-profit crisis support service looks to strengthen its corporate ties.

Former 40under40 winner Andrew Thorburn is set to take the reins at National Australia Bank, following the retirement of long-serving chief executive Cameron Clyne.

Gina Rinehart has virtually ensured her family's long-held dream of operating its own iron ore mine, securing final funding for her massive Roy Hill project.

Rather than a disaster, Troy Buswell's political exit ought to be an opportunity.

Despite faltering near the end of 2013, global growth is likely to continue its upward momentum.

Mermaid Marine Australia has won a contract, worth up to $500 million, to provide support services to Inpex's Ichthys liquefied natural gas project.

Mermaid Marine Australia has agreed to purchase the subsidiaries of Singapore-based marine services provider Jaya Holdings for $S625 million ($550 million), in an all-cash deal which represents one of the largest acquisitions by a Western Australian company in recent years.

After a tough, confidence-sapping year, business is taking a more positive outlook to 2014, according to a Business News subscriber survey.

Woodside Petroleum and National Australia Bank chairman Michael Chaney says the growing compliance burden on companies threatens to compromise their ability to deliver for shareholders.

Amateur investors are continuing to buy shares in Australia's big four banks, which is easy to understand given the eye-catching profit of $6.3 billion reported earlier today by ANZ Banking Group.

The Reserve Bank of Australia has moved as expected, cutting the official cash rate to a new record-low 2.5 per cent.

The rating of Australian banks by their business customers has declined sharply over the past five years, with one of the few exceptions being Bank of Queensland.

Perth's Murdoch University has joined the ranks of tertiary institutions appointing leading resources industry players as chancellors.

Small business owners are used to ‘doing it all', but sometimes a bit of independent advice can be the difference between success and failure.

Fat dividends are the primary reason why Australia's big four banks have pushed most mining stocks out of the top 10 on the Australian Securities Exchange and, while investors might think bank shar

Macquarie Bank paid $20 million for a one fifth stake in Perth-based financial services group Homeloans.

The artificial currency, Bitcoin, won't trigger the next crash, but its mere existence is a sign of the problems facing financial markets.

Australia's business sector has weakened further in the last quarter of 2012, with a survey showing conditions slumping to their lowest point in more than three years, and lending finance up for th

IF there is one subject that unifies people across the property sector it is concern with the lending policies of the banks, which have been criticised for being overly strict and not really unders

Business analytics consultancy Access Analytic Solutions has won the inaugural People's Choice Award as part of this year's Rising Stars Awards.

AS the world enters its fifth year of economic turbulence and even the best-insulated businesses in Western Australia are being affected, the factors that determine business influence in this state

The impact of the Reserve Bank's decision to cut its official cash rate by an unexpectedly large 0.5 per cent will become clearer later this week when Australia's big four banks announce their resp

Perth-based specialty minerals company Wolf Minerals will raise $80.1 million through debt fund facilities to finance construction of its Hemerdon tungsten and tin project in Southwest England.