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Among the companies of which Peter Mansell is a board member only Ferngrove Vineyards Estate is not listed on the stockmarket, yet it is one of his busiest positions.

Last week in the story ‘Alcock nurtures building sector's next generation' WA Business News incorrectly stated that Dale Alcock was the chairman of the Building and Construction I

The outcome of Native Title negotiations in coming months will be critical for the property sector in Broome amid mounting development and cost pressures.

With more than $100 million of tourist developments and upgrades scheduled, a substantial increase in direct flights from several airlines and tourism operators anticipating a record year, things are looking good for Broome's tourism sector.

An agreement signed between the State Government and the Rubibi community in October last year has allowed for the residential development of 33 hectares of prime land near Cable

Work will commence within a few months at St Andrews, a proposed $20 billion new city about 50 kilometres north of Perth at Yanchep-Two Rocks.

Perth's century old Bayswater Hotel has recently undergone a $3.5 million refurbishment.

There are as many pathways to perfection in the world of chocolate production as there are types of chocolate.

Enigmatic winemaker Janice McDonald, of Suckfizzle and Stella Bella fame, expects the 2005 vintage to be a “really, really good vintage for Margaret River”.

If ever proof was needed that life as a professional director is no longer a leisurely, part-time sinecure, Peter Mansell provides it.

Steve Edwell has been announced the inaugural chair of the Australian Energy Regulator. Mr Edwell is an economist with experience in economic regulation and competition policy.

Western Australia's aquaculture sector, long touted as having strong growth prospects, is moving forward on two fronts, with Marine Produce Australia launching a $4 million capital raising and Western Australian Abalone close to completing a $1.8 million

7,244,239 fully paid ordinary shares will be released from escrow on 31 March 2005.

At the time it didn't seem so extraordinary, but the more I dwelt on a couple of events I attended last week, the more it started to sink in.

The Mid-West region's state seat of Greenough, which skirts the northern port city of Geraldton, has a range of claims to fame.

Born and raised in Kellerberrin Dale Alcock has become somewhat of a poster boy for the building industry, working his way up from apprentice bricklayer to 50 per cent owner in the nation's second largest residential building company.

We never like to go patting ourselves on the back but there are times when its worth giving ourselves credit – mainly because no-one else will.

Western Australia's Liberals have emerged in far worse shape from the February 26 election – at which they attracted 35.6 per cent statewide voter support – than after the February 2001 election when they scored only 34 per cent.

If Len Buckeridge needed another reason for not floating his BGC Group on the stock exchange then John Roberts has just given him one.

I refer to your article on Manny Papadoulis (WA Business News, March 10).

For nearly 15 years the Building and Construction Industry Training Fund has collected levies from all construction projects in Western Australia and invested the money into the training of skilled labour.

A new City of Stirling report has criticised the findings of last September's State Government survey which recommended a height cap in Scarborough.

Western Australia's relatively immature real estate market, and its more efficient contracting system, were two convincing reasons to keep the current sales system, according to Real Estate Institute of Western Australia (REIWA) president Greg Rossen.

The world's second most-traded commodity after oil isn't guns or gold. It's coffee.

“It's flat out mate” was the response Picardy winemaker Dan Pannell gave Gusto when asked how vintage 2005 was going.

Premier Geoff Gallop has won his second election, his parliamentary majority is intact, and he has refreshed his ministry with a modest reshuffle and five new faces.

Last year's 40under40 First Amongst Equals winner Darren Haunold recently celebrated the opening of cellar door sales at his winery, Wills Domain.

The English had Richard the Lion Heart, the Macedonians Alexander the Great, the Poles Boleslaw the Bold and even a Boleslaw the Brave.

When Nathan Buzza was named the 40under40 First Amongst Equals in 2003 his business, Commtech Wireless, had 30 staff and a turnover of $5 million.

Big bets have been placed on the assumption that a new bidder will emerge in the battle for control of Portman, the iron ore miner with a split board and widely differing valuations.

The Federal Government's plan to establish a unitary industrial relations system has been condemned by the union movement and Labor state governments but, more surprisingly, has gained a mixed response from business groups.

There is a simple and fairly reliable formula for finding industrial disputes in Western Australia.