R&D Initiative director Byron Sharp had a number of Perth's top marketing executives analysing their brand building strategies last week when he told a meeting that many commonplace marketing theories were really myths.
DEVELOPERS and the Property Council of WA have expressed concern ahead of a Government report due mid year concerning proposed changes to the residential components of tourism projects.
While outdoor cooking is nothing new to most Australians, a Perth man is finding new ways to make the barbecue an indispensable culinary tool, as Julie-anne Sprague discovered.
THE Rising Stars survey is a platform to showcase private enterprises and unlisted public companies in Western Australia that have sustained high rates of growth over the past two financial years ending June 30 2003.
BIOTECHNOLOGY firm Ozgene says its aim is to create a large bio-pharmaceutical operation in Western Australia to rival its global multinational competitors.
THE rapid growth in housing lending has been great news for Australian Finance Group, which has a hand in nearly 10 per cent of all new housing loans across the country.
AT age 26, and with limited skills in IT, Patrick Ng, the founder of telecommunications carrier Global Dial, saw an opportunity to create his own business.
THE Woodside Building and the Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre are two of the biggest recent commercial construction projects in Perth – and Blackadder Group supplied scaffo
TAKING on the world's largest multimedia companies has paid off for Nedlands-based company PIVoD Technologies, which has carved a niche by developing industry-specific applications
SOFTWARE development company Empired Limited seized the opportunity to develop a solution for what it saw as a paradigm shift in recruitment and business technology and processes.
ACCORDING to the most recent Deloitte Western Australian Stock Exchange Index, public companies in Western Australia continue to achieve substantially faster growth than public comp
KWINANA Technology Business Incubator has signed an agreement with one of South-East Asia's highest profile technology centres as part of a plan to establish a regional technology network.
IN a an unprecedented move the Heritage Council last month offered to make up a $150,000 profit shortfall to the developer of the controversial Court Hotel project if part of the Beaufort Street building was retained in the planned residential and retail
MANY of the participants in the recent WA Business News heritage forum considered the State Government's implementation of planning authorities to be a double-edged sword.
A COLLABORATIVE effort between developers ERBEAC and designer/builder Gavin Constructions has resulted in a unique new regional call centre for Bunbury's largest employer, Centrelink
FREMANTLE'S Challenger TAFE will use a $7.5 million Federal Government grant to build new technical learning facilities and update student and staff facilities in an attempt to attract more local and overseas students.
THE Western Australian branches of the Property Council of Australia and the Urban Development Institute of Australia have released a planning processes review study outlining more
WORKPLACE Relations Minister Kevin Andrews has told Federal Parliament that the Building Industry Taskforce will become a permanent policing body, a year after the Royal Commission
IINET managing director Michael Malone has secured the top individual honour at this year's Western Australian Information Technology and Telecommunications Awards.
VAL Morgan may not think cinema slide advertising is a profitable venture in Western Australia, but a former senior executive Tony Brooks believes there is a strong market for the 15-second still ads.
A PHOTOGRAPHY feature commemorating the Bali bombings for Melbourne's The Age newspaper has earned Perth photographer Tony McDonough a WA photography award.
NO matter what anyone says about young people today or the litigious nature of our society, every now and then something turns all that sour stuff on its head.
REGULAR State Scene readers will know that new Federal Labor leader Mark Latham was treated sympathetically rather than circumspectly in this column on becoming leader.
