WESTERN Australia's web development industry is reaping the benefits of larger IT spends off the back of growing positive sentiment in the State's ICT sector.
WESTERN Australia's hard rock exploration and mining sector has expressed deep disappointment at what some are calling a lack of long-term vision by the Federal Government in its 2004-05 budget.
LAST month's State Government decision to abandon plans to sink the rail network was a blow to many proponents of increased residential development in Northbridge.
SWAN Brewery's move in 1978 from the city to Canning Vale marked a major shift in the company's approach to brewing after almost 120 years at the site on Mounts Bay Road and in Spring Street.
MODERN building design, landscaped gardens, and a State Swim centre are not features usually associated with an industrial business area, but Canning Vale Business Park has them all.
THERE'S a touch of irony in the fact that Robert Halliday has worked as CEO of Market City since 1999, not so much for his role but rather the location.
THE success of the Canning Vale development over the past three decades has encouraged several other local councils to look at similar proposals for their area, among them Hope Valley/Wattelup.
THE acquisition by Grand Cinemas last month of Greater Union's Joondalup and Whitfords cinema complexes, and the completion of its Armadale cinema later this year, positions the independent cinema group as a forerunner in hard-top cinema ownership in WA.
One of WA's longest serving CEOs, Terry Budge's seven-year tenure at BankWest largely overlapped the bank's time as a listed company and was constantly overshadowed by takeover talk. Mark Pownall talks to the outgoing group managing director.
IT'S budget time again, and this year it's the rare double – two electioneering budgets for the long-suffering citizens of Western Australia to analyse.
COMPETITION is likely to intensify within the voice services sector in the latter half of this year as several players begin to drive the battle into the residential Voice over Internet Protocol market space (VoIP).
PERTH investor Barry Patterson looks set to make a clean and profitable exit from his rescue of office supplies company National 1 after French firm Lyreco announced a 14-cents-pe
A CAPITAL raising undertaken by wireless technology company Wavenet International Limited closed fully subscribed last week, with the company raising $A5,000,000 through a share placement.
TEN Western Australian companies exhibited at this year's
CeBIT conference at a Western Australia stand organised through the Department
of Industry and Resources.
A STRONG economy, a buoyant property market and booming mineral production have helped the State Government combine increased spending with prudent financial management.
Dealing with town planning and licensing issues has proved frustrating for a Subiaco restaurant – and it has been confusing for some customers. Julie-anne Sprague reports.
PROPERTY industry groups have been quick to criticise last week's budget despite the State Government's efforts to promote the benefits to property buyers as one of its major selling points.
THE Perth public might be behind Room Nineteen but the population of our great city alone will not be able to save the Northbridge-based reality TV restaurant.
SO far this year four Liberal MPs have seen their hopes of remaining in parliament dashed, either by a loss of party endorsement or having been placed too far down an upper house ticket to be returned.
WHILE it appears that the State's wine industry has secured a windfall with an increased wine equalisation tax rebate in this week's Federal Budget, Leeuwin Estate chairman and long-time critic of WET, Denis Horgan, is disappointed the Government has not
THE chief executives of Western Australia's major industrial companies are automatically placed in a position of influence, both for the decisions they make about their own company and for the leadership role they can exercise on wider business issues.
In WA Business News' annual feature on the State's most influential people, Mark Beyer explains why people such as Neil Hamilton, Tony Howarth, John Langoulant, Geoff Gallop and Jim McGinty are the real 'movers and shakers'.
SEVEN years after a Federal Government report into small business recommended regulatory reform of Australia's planning and development processes, a planning model has been released for public comment.
IN the political world it's called being ‘on message', and few people have managed to be as singularly focused on such an objective as Denis Horgan, arguably WA's leading wine entrepreneur, who has unfailingly hammered
