More than 60 per cent of Australia's small to medium enterprises say their preferred way of interacting with their bank is through a relationship manager but very few currently have one, East & Partners' latest SME Banking Markets Report reveals.
Base metals miner Perilya Ltd has sold its stake in takeover target Herald Resources Ltd, which said today it was in discussions with a number of other parties.
Talisman Mining Ltd managing director Steven Elliott has made an instant paper profit of $4 million today after exercising 4.9 million options at $0.25, while realising $1 million cash through the off-market sale of 2.7 million shares at $0.67.
So what is the secret? Western Australia is meant to be at the cultural fringe, dominated by mining and other sectors that lack the sophistication necessary to appreciate the arts.
After a year of enormous highs and equally dramatic lows across Western Australia's property industry, landlords will be counting more blessings than most this Christmas.
Family-owned furniture company, Burgtec Australasia, has added another accolade to its swag of award wins in recent years, taking out this year's Western Australian best of the best furniture award for its WA Parliament refurbishment project.
ILUKA Resources will announce the retirement of Ian Mackenzie as chairman and a director of the company at its next annual general meeting, to be held in May 2008.
Eight Western Australian company directors in the mining industry collected tidy Christmas bonuses this week with substantial paper profits from the exercise of options.
The corporate sector's focus on sustainable business practices has been reflected in the attention paid to environmental management, occupational health and safety and corporate governance awards.
VDM Group Ltd executive director Stuart Cuthbert has decreased his indirect interest in the company - held by Redmont Resources Pty Ltd - through the on-market sale of 1 million shares valued at $2.7
Ten years ago this month, Perth entrepreneur Graeme Morgan collected a giant payout when he and his fellow shareholders agreed to sell one of Perth's great business success stories for $272 million.
The state Liberal Party has put forward a radical plan to phase out commercial shipping activity at Fremantle harbour in favour of a new port at Kwinana adjacent to the private port planned by private company James Point Pty Ltd.
MORE than a third of companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange call Perth home, with more than 120 new Western Australian companies floating on the stock market this year.
A fresh wave of nickel miners is hopeful a new processing technology will realise significant cost benefits, as trials into the feasibility of heap leaching on laterite nickel deposits move into full swing in Western Australian.
International trade agreements appear to have overridden the state government's ‘Buy Local' policy, raising concerns in some areas of industry that compete globally or nationally for local tenders.
CONTRACT labour hire firm Workforce Solutions has rejected claims by the recruitment industry lobby group that federal government changes to the 457 visa scheme had thrown the sector into disarray.
Base metals miner Herald Resources this month became the latest of many Western Australian mining companies to be the target of a takeover offer, as big international groups seek to secure access to resources.
The Western Australian Trade Enquiry Service is operated by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australia (CCI) with the support of the WA Government's Department of I
LEN Buckeridge's BGC Construction has won a $73 million contract for the development of a basketball and athletics complex at AK Reserve, to replace facilities at Perry Lakes stadium.
John Langoulant's role as the public face of Western Australian business for nearly four years is set to change in the new year when he takes on the role as chief executive at Kerry Stokes' very private Australian Capital Equity Pty Ltd.
After several years of strong share price growth, many listed property players had a subdued 2007 as interest rate rises and soaring house prices hit the market.
THE state government has rezoned more than 700 hectares in Perth's southern suburbs for residential development, adding to the number of projects on land to be serviced by the new Perth to Mandurah ra
Construction and property development company, Diploma Group Ltd, has announced its fourth new contract in the past month, collectively worth nearly $95 million.
NEDLANDS-BASED mining software developer, ISS Group Ltd, has signed a purchase agreement and subsequent four-year maintenance and support contract with BHP Billiton Nickel West for its BabelFish suite
More than 18 months after buying its new premises, architecture firm Sandover Pinder has completed renovations of the Cremorne Arcade Buildings on Hay Street in the city's east en
A new Western Australian business is looking to build the country's first demonstration pilot plant to mass-produce oil derived from algae for use as biodiesel.
