Howard Park's regional wines display a distinctive style even though their treatment and handling are identical, and the Shiraz and Cabernet are remarkable, as David Pike discovers.
IN a field dominated by interstate and overseas companies, Perth-based Organic Resource Technologies stands out as a homegrown developer of waste treatment technology.
IMAGINE spending $35 million on a new factory then asking the State Government for a handout so you can create a market for your product.
Sound crazy? That is exactly what the ratepayer-funded Southern Metropolitan Regional Council has done.
A SURVEY of small and mid-sized tax practices has found a sharp increase in average working hours over the past three years, from 47.4 hours a week to 54.6 hours.
PERTH company GRD is poised to become a major player in the waste management industry through its 50 per cent-owned Global Renewables.
After many years of technical and commercial development, Global Renewables is on the brink of commencing its first UR-
WHILE many companies have completely outsourced their superannuation to master trusts and industry funds, others have chosen to keep their funds in-house.
MANY of us will remember seeing a baffled Health Minister Bob Kucera recently facing TV cameras and attempting to explain why his department had bankrolled a publication coaching Perth women on how to be sensual and client-oriented prostitutes.
THE US federal agency responsible for the safety and security of civil aviation, the Transportation Security Administration, will continue to work with Perth-based explosives detect
SPECIALISING in tax law was a logical move for Robert Sceales.
Mr Sceales has been practising as a lawyer since 1971, originally in his native South Africa but for many years in Australia.
MILLEPEDE International Limited, the local designer and manufacturer of plastic cable fasteners, has increased its stake in international subsidiary firms in a move to cash in on wh
LEE Christensen's professional fate was decided when he was articled to Ron Harmer, the guru of insolvency law, in 1982.
Mr Christensen has never looked back from that point, specialising in
AN attraction to the law might have led Mallesons Stephen Jaques partner Rob Lilburne into the profession but the pressure cooker of the Robe River Iron Ore dispute in the 1980s cemented his place in the industrial relations field.
NETWORKING has proved essential for public relations company The Capital Group, ranked fifth in the WA Business News Book of Lists 2003 list of marketing and market research companies.
PAUL Wright is one of several winners in the Legal Elite 2003 survey who left work at a big national firm to establish his own practice.
He formed Wright Legal in July 2000 after 17 years as a partner at Freehills and one of its predecessor firms
JUST because you build a better mouse-trap doesn't mean customers and investors will start beating a path to your door. Companies need to make sure there is a need for their product and a niche for it in the market.
IT was a post-study trip in the US that inspired Tony van Merwyk to pursue a career in environmental planning law.
Mr van Merwyk completed a masters in international environmental law at the University of San Diego in 1990 and was travelling throughout
THE lawyers who dominated voting in the intellectual property category illustrate two very different aspects of this field of practice.
The top rated lawyer was Freehills partner Tony Joyner, who has a broad commercial law background and moved into the
The team at Fraser's in Kings Park have decided that having one of the city's best views isn't enough ... there's a new look inside too, as Julie-anne Sprague reports.
JUST as former Labor premier Brian Burke vacated the media spotlight over lobbying, his long-time party pal Kim Beazley came into its beam.
State Scene certainly never expected to be re-focusing on Mr Beazley so soon
