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JAMES McClements and his colleagues at Resource Capital Funds are at the peak of their game.

Planning ahead is one thing, making sure everyone knows about it is another.

CROISSANT Express chairman Jonathan Huston is no stranger to the wheeling and dealing required to succeed in business.

The government is hoping to hose down expectations that the state is awash with money.

PRIVATE equity backing has enabled Vesco Foods to make the transition from a locally focused family business to a national player in the food services manufacturing sector.

SIX years ago, AMP Capital Investors started implementing an ambitious strategy to build a major national player in the industrial supplies market.

IF a Geraldton-based business can win the backing of James Packer's Consolidated Press, it must be doing something right.

FREMANTLE Ports says it still wants a commercial development at Victoria Quay, after ING Real Estate abandoned its contentious $350 million redevelopment plans.

BUILDING approvals fell in Western Australia over January, but WA fared better than most of the rest of the nation, according to the Housing Industry Association.

SUBIACO-BASED engineering and construction contractor Doric has won a contract to build a new medical research facility in Nedlands, which will have a completed cost of more than $100 million.

THE skincare business may seem all lavender oil and roses to some, but developing a product range and forging a path in a saturated market has been full of challenges for Megan Larsen, founder of Sodashi.

TIM Kenworthy is what one would typically refer to as a ‘doer'.

The Village Bar in Subiaco has been created by a close-knit trio, who are hoping to bring locals back to their pub. Emily Morgan reports.

Eric Ripper may not know it, but he has an opportunity to make a profound, long-lasting impact on the national political scene.

Sandalwood producer TFS Corporation says it will be debt free once it completes a $37.9 million share placement and rights issue.

Perth-based Hunnu Coal has continued its stunning run with the announcement of a strategic partnership with Singapore-based Banpu Minerals to develop its Mongolian coal tenements.

Gold miner Catalpa Resources has posted a maiden first half profit on the back of record production of the precious metal from its two Australian mines.

"Oh please, hit me again!" That's what management at the ANZ Bank ought to be saying after a conservation movement attack yesterday backfired to the tune of a $908 million profit for the bank's owners.

Engineering and construction firm Forge Group is searching for a new managing director, after its current boss, Peter Hutchinson, stepped down in a move he says will drive the company's next phase of growth.

Sandfire Resources says it will take a 17.1 per cent stake in Chile-focused copper-gold explorer Whinnen Resources.

Almost 100 dairy producers, shop owners and organisations are rallying against a decision by the major supermarket chains to slash the cost of milk.

The Australian economy is not doing too badly, but it is hardly breaking any speed records.

The Australian Greens say they will oppose any moves to compensate mining giants under a carbon price, amid calls from Rio Tinto that business will struggle to adapt, and from Woodside Petroleum, which says its exports should be exempt from the tax.

Lower milk prices won't hurt the dairy industry, supermarket Coles says.

Shares in Ramelius Resources rose after it reported high-grade gold results from deeper drilling its Wattle Dam mine in Western Australia and was admitted to the S&P ASX 300 index.

Hong Kong-based Wah Nam International Holdings has extended its parallel takeover bids for West Australian iron ore explorers Brockman Resources and FerrAus by one month.

Lanco Infratech says it will increase production at Griffin's coal mines near Collie by a factor of four, after it completed the $750 million acquisition of the assets.

Sandfire Resources has announced it will go ahead with a $400 million development of its DeGrussa copper-gold project, on the strength of a "robust" pre-feasibility study.

Rio Tinto says Sir Rod Eddington and Yves Fortier will retire as non-executive directors of the mining giant at the end of the annual general meeting on May 5.

The train line linking Western Australia to the eastern states has been reopened, after floodwaters forced its closure on February 26.

Wayne Bergmann, the Kimberley Land Council head who has spearheaded Aboriginal negotiations over a controversial gas hub near Broome, is stepping down from the role.

Australia's biggest gold miner Newcrest Mining has nearly doubled its estimate of deposits at a mine in Papua New Guinea to more than 30 million ounces of gold.