Fine wine and fine art in this week's WA Business News

Wednesday, 11 April, 2007 - 13:41


In this week's hard copy edition of WA Business News:

Julie-anne Sprague meets the new executive chef at Yallingup's Caves House, and reports on WA's grape oversupply, which vanished as east coast operators moved in on the 2007 harvest, but which it likely to resurface;

Mark Beyer looks at WA's $963 million in capital raisings for the first quarter of the 2007 calendar year, and discovers the new IP battleground for Perth's law firms;

Emily Piesse looks at the new temporary visas for graduating international students, and the trend of charity collectors swapping tins for clipboards on the streets.

Jenelle Carter checks out the big business of public art in the development sector, including looming legal action surrounding a notable piece in the South-West, and looks at Vincent's new plans for Oxford Street; and

Janelle Macri meets Mareena Sear (nee Purslowe) and discovers how a spare parts interpreter brought his invention to the market.

Our Book of Lists looks at WA's top 13 environmental services firms.

Editor Mark Pownall reflects on the WA wine sector and the latest union membership data

Tim Treadgold looks at the re-invention of Wesfarmers in relation to its new Coles bid;

And Joe Poprzeczny wonders what happened to the promise of a Western Australian Prime Minister

All this and more in this week's edition of WA Business News, available tomorrow.