With ideal conditions for the gathering of the white grape, David Pike, on duty for the 2003 vintage, turns his mind to his favourite white grape – the chardonnay.
In the first instalment in a four-part series on marketing for small businesses, Noel Dyson examines the need for ‘a plan'.
A MARKETING plan is considered crucial for success of any business, let alone a small business.
In the first of a six-part series on mergers and acquisitions, Mark Beyer looks at who can help with buying and selling of businesses, large and small.
A RECENT survey by CPA Australia has highlighted the potential fall-out from the rising cost of professional indemnity (PI) insurance cover for accountants.
TIGHT budgets, a tough stock market and investors watching for any signs of corporate extravagance have removed the gloss from the business of producing annual reports.
THE Federal Government has announced measures to improve the so-called Simplified Tax System (STS) and foreshadowed other changes to further improve the tax system.
CHANNEL 9 Perth has won the third week of the 2003 survey period – thanks to the gripping finish to the World Cup Cricket match between India and Pakistan on March 1.
THE Advertising Federation of Australia is calling for all advertising agencies to recognise deaf and hearing impaired people in the preparation of television advertising.
In the first of a series on IT outsourcing, Julie-anne Sprague examines who's bidding for the major contracts.
MOST local IT outsourcing companies agree that government contracts account for a large slice of work in Western Australia.
WA regional ports' executive management and their boards are overseeing major expansions, planning for trade in new commodities, and negotiating rural industry setbacks.
WHILE most ports are “steaming along very nicely”, Planning and Infrastructure Minister Alannah MacTiernan acknowledges she and some port authorities have faced several difficult situations in the past two years.
MIRVAC Fini will sponsor an annual art event in order to develop links between its new Quay West Resort Bunker Bay development and the Margaret River art world.
THE Western Australian Wine Industry Association and Anglicare are two of the 21 organisations to receive State Government funding geared towards the promotion of growth and job prospects in regional WA.
THE City of Perth proposal to sink all the railway lines in Northbridge is now available to the public in the recently launched document, Realising a New Vision for Perth.
MATSURI Restaurant owner Yutaka Takeuchi has reopened his site at 900 Hay Street as a takeaway store and is evaluating other retail sites in the CBD for similar concepts.
ELECTORAL Affairs Minister Jim McGinty's decision to embark on a costly High Court challenge to the weighting of WA's rural electorates provides a suitable opportunity to revisit this issue.
IT research firm META Group envisages good growth for its services in WA and has appointed a full-time regional WA manager, Geoff Large, who is charged with developing the group's presence in WA.
SEVERAL independent supermarkets have launched a campaign to reduce the number of plastic shopping bags their stores use each year in light of the proposed 25-cent plastic bag levy.
MOST of Perth's top real estate agents held their ground in the WA Business News Book of Lists 2003, with little change recorded among the top 20 agents from the previous year.
