About 20 stockbrokers turned their backs on their big-name employers last year to establish new firms in a bid to capitalise on WA's booming resources sector.
The owners of The Mill Bakehouse on Fremantle's cappuccino strip have set up a bigger sister operation on Norfolk Street offering a similar menu to the popular cafe on South Terrace.
Euroz Securities has for the first time knocked Patersons Securities off its position as the top stockbroking firm in Perth for equity capital raisings.
Major players making major deals was the dominant feature of Perth's commercial office market in 2006, as yields and office vacancies tightened and rents skyrocketed.
While the state's residential and commercial markets were strong performers in 2006, positive sales results were also emerging in the industrial and retail sectors.
AMID the surprise management buyout proposal at one of Australia's major infrastructure asset managers, Alinta Ltd, the official announcement of the IPO for Perth-based rival PearlStreet Ltd was so
A broad cross-section of Western Australian companies were recognised for their innovative work in the fields of medical research, technology design and environmental sustainability science, information technology and the environment last year.
The WA Association for the Blind is approaching the final stages of building a new $15.4 million facility for the blind or vision impaired, to be located on the organisation's existing land in Victoria Park.
With the population of Margaret River estimated to almost triple by 2031, the Shire of Augusta Margaret River has embarked on an ambitious town planning strategy to ensure its village charm is not blighted by future urban growth.
The South West village of Cowaramup is gearing up for a spate of residential development activity as a handful of long-term land owners in the area prepare to subdivide their properties.
Perth-based asset management company PearlStreet Ltd has announced plans for an $8 million initial public offering and listing on the Australian Stock Exchange.
The market may be getting the jitters over commodity prices but there are still a host of resources-related floats seeking to make the most of the buoyant capital markets.
Rockingham-based veterinary pharmaceuticals manufacturer Chemeq Ltd has seen a 50 per cent jump in its share price following the announcement today that founder Graham Melrose had quit his stake in the company.
There has been a considerable amount of activity in the state's innovation sector during the past 12 months, with more WA companies investing in innovation than anywhere else in Australia, in per capita terms.
It was a year of highs and lows in Western Australia's property game, with a record 46 per cent surge in Perth's housing prices in the year to September and stellar commercial gains.
Daniel Chick's smother, followed by the shepherd that paved the way for Adam Hunter to kick a goal and seal the nail biting grand final for the West Coast Eagles was but one of many spectacular moments on the Western Australian sporting calendar in 2006.
Ngala is a name that resonates with parents around Western Australia, having a brand recognition quality that many corporate organisations can only aspire to.
It has been a big year for real estate agent principal and Force First National director Paul Tonich, who has made the most of Western Australia's record breaking property boom by posting some records of his own.
An $11 million central services facility will be built at the Australian Marine Complex at Henderson to act as a meeting, shopping and entertainment hub for tenants and visitors from early 2008.
Northbridge will undergo a new phase of development activity next year as investors increasingly turn their attention to the area and a number of planned mixed-use developments get under way.
Albany's first master planned community, Oyster Harbour, has attracted considerable buyer interest with the majority of lots in its first release selling out last week.
Premier Alan Carpenter has finished the year sounding upbeat, despite all of the ministerial and corruption crises gripping his government. Mark Beyer and Mark Pownall report.
