Days after the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australia made renewed calls for deregulation of trading hours, supermarket group Woolworths Ltd has claimed the food retail sector is not overly concentrated.
West Perth-based energy company Wasabi Energy Ltd has taken a 20 per cent stake in Melbourne-based evaporative water loss-prevention company Aqua Guardian Group Ltd for $500,000, ahead of its planned listing on the Australian Securities Exchange.
A group of Perth investors including former Macquarie Bank director Simon Lyons and Prime West director John Bond have taken control of listed irrigation company Australian Watwerwise Solutions Ltd.
Perth-based metals explorer View Resources Ltd plans to raise $10 million through a rights issue, the company announced today, as well as securing a new debt facility under plans to move its Bronzewing gold project into positive cash flows by December.
South Perth-based mining explorer Extract Resources Ltd and Burswood-based Tectonic Resources NL have agreed to sell their interests in the Burnakura gold project joint venture to Canadian company ATW Venture Corp, the companies have announced.
Nedlands-based Hawk Resources Ltd will acquire 80 per cent of the Callie Soak tungsten prospect, currently owned by Richmond Resources Pty Ltd, for $60,000 in cash and scrip, the company has announced.
South Perth-based agricultural investment company the ARK Fund Ltd has increased the size of its debt facility with the National Australia Bank to $27 million, the company has announced.
West Perth-based explorer Silver Swan Group Ltd has earned a 51 per cent stake in the Cocata copper-gold project after meeting the exploration expenditure committments set out under its joint venture with Sydney-based Intermet Resources Ltd.
Cannington-based security technology group QRSciences Holdings Ltd associated company Spectrum San Diego Inc has been awarded a supply contract by the US Transportation Security Administration worth $42 million, the company has announced.
West Perth-based Monitor Energy Ltd has raised $500,000 in a placement to advance exploration of the company's oil and uranium projects in the Kyrgyz Republic and to supplement working capital, the company has announced.
West Perth-based uranium explorer U308 Ltd has signed a joint venture agreement with Canada-based uranium producer Cameco for a joint venture project over eight tenements in the Ashburton region of Western Australia.
Perth-based CityView Corporation Ltd has acquired the right to purchase 100 per cent of Petro Energy Africa Ltd, a move that would give it operational control of the North Matanda oil project in Cameroon.
Redcliffe-based construction services company Global Construction Services Ltd has acquired Landsdale-based accommodation provider Budget Portables for $10 million, the company has announced.
Monarch Gold Mining Company is fast tracking the development of its high grade Kalgoorlie gold projects and ramping up production at its Davyhurst mill over the next four months, the company announced today.
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One year after helping to float the family company, Swick Mining Services Ltd (SMS), on the Australian Securities Exchange, Randal Swick is planning to establish a new drilling business in Brazil.
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
Key arguments used by independent retailers during a fiery deregulation debate several years ago have been challenged this week by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australia.
As we prepare to enter year six of the greatest resources boom Australia has experienced there's a hunt under way for the next mining and oil investment theme to maintain the mome
THE Clive Brown-chaired Phosphate Resources Ltd has taken court action against the federal government as it seeks to overturn a ban on the expansion of phosphate mining on Christmas Island.
Western Australia has become unusually dependent on three giant resource sector producers, which account for more than half of the state's entire exports.
The state government has posted another record surplus, eclipsing its previous record figure by almost 2 per cent to reach $2.3 billion for the 2006-07 financial year.
CAPE Bouvard Developments is preparing to release its second luxury apartment project at South Beach off-the-plan early next year, following the recent sale of all 17 apartments in its Vueze develo
Western Australia's nickel exporters, led by BHP Billiton and Minara Resources, had a bumper year in 2006-07 despite lower production, with record nickel prices achieved.
After more than 25 years in the industry, Chris Anderson, founder and director of Osborne Park-based business Well Connected, is one of a small number of business owners operating in a niche of the office equipment market.
Lotterywest chief executive Jan Stewart has been added to the US-based Public Gaming Research Industry's Lottery Industry Hall of Fame, one of three industry leaders across the world appointed this ye
Western Australia's massive minerals and petroleum sectors dominate the state's export commodity profile, with just one commodity in the top 10, wheat, from outside the resources industry.
When geologists around the world start planning new mine developments, there is a good chance the software used will have been written in Perth by a company such as Gemcom or Micromine.
It's the suburban life that inspires the projects of Fremantle-based artist Bevan Honey, who is about to benefit from one of Western Australia's most unique arts funding programs.
