TFS Corporation says it is on track to achieve at least 15 per cent growth in net cash earnings for the 2009 financial year as it today booked a $5.2 million half-year net profit after tax.
Swick Mining Services has revealed it cut staff numbers by 120 late last year to match a sharp fall in demand for its drill rigs as it delivers a 30 per cent fall in its interim net profit.
A lower than anticipated performance from Alinta and other operating businesses has prompted Babcock & Brown Power to revise down its full year earnings.
The buoyancy of the oil and gas sector in the current economic climate has helped deliver record revenues and profit for the half year for Neptune Marine Services.
Po Valley Energy has secured three-years of forward sales from two of its Italian gas fields, valued at around $150 million, after signing a second offtake deal with Elettrogas.
Wealth management company Plan B Group Holdings has paid some $7 million in cash and scrip to acquire a majority interest in Melbourne-based wealth advisory business, Strategic Financial Management.
Two more years of economic pain; Fortescue cancels raising; Seven minus debt equals zero; Bonds put Woodside on strong cash track; OZ shares fall on fear of banks
THE state government's plans for a gas processing hub on the Kimberley coast have received a boost from the region's traditional owners, which have said they are ready to negotiate a deal for a large-scale liquefied natural gas development on Aboriginal l
WHILE Western Australia's geothermal energy industry progresses at a snail's pace, former Perth-based BHP Billiton executive Bret Mattes is enjoying rapid progress in Indonesia.
RESEARCH has shown that Australian businesses involved in importing and exporting in the current economic climate are becoming dissatisfied with the trade loans provided by their financiers.
The Western Australian Trade Enquiry Service is operated by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA with the support of the WA Government's Department of Industry and Resources.
CHANGING market conditions have fuelled a trend towards strata property in the commercial sector, as owners respond by offering floors for sale as strata-titled stock to entice a growing number of financially constrained potential buyers.
THERE must have been high-fives all through the halls of power in Beijing last week as government Mandarins celebrated victory over Western mining interests.
MACMAHON Holdings director John Massey has seized on the company's declining share price to bolster his interest in the stock, a day after the release of a subdued interim report.
BURSWOOD Entertainment Complex has become the first major Western Australian employer to sign up to the Australian Employment Covenant, a scheme designed to provide 50,000 jobs for indigenous Australians.
FOR the past decade, the Clontarf Foundation has forged partnerships with business leaders and heads of government to help develop its program to assist Aboriginal youth.
THE Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA has named the Small Business Development Corporation, LandCorp and the state's eight port authorities as prime candidates for privatisation or review.
FEDERAL schemes designed to increase the uptake of solar panels have created plenty of business for companies like Solar Unlimited, but the rapid expansion is providing a major management challenge for the Western Australian firm.
TWO peak mining industry bodies have applauded the state government's announcement of an $80 million minerals exploration incentive, to be delivered over four years.
