LOCAL electronics design and manufacturing company Omnitronics is gaining international momentum and will ship its communications products to Canada and Scotland later this month.
INNOVATION is a strange concept in Australia.
I have written before that our innovation is often the bush mechanic style of being able to keep things together with wire and string.
JOE Poprzeczny's State Scene article ‘Wedged on the Reef' of January 16 2003 was very appropriate considering the timing of current announcements concerning the Ningaloo Reef developments.
CUTTING prices is often seen as an easy way for businesses to boost their turnover, especially in difficult trading conditions. But it's a strategy that is fraught with danger.
THE misuse of email systems by staff is by far the most common email security problem. The potentially devastating consequences associated with the abuse of company email systems highlights the critical importance of developing and implementing a
NANOTECHNOLOGY developed by UWA researchers as part of a ‘Centres of Excellence' program is poised to revolutionise the sunscreen market and is set to attack the cosmetics, microelectronics, baby care and homeware industries.
LOCAL developers are becoming increasingly concerned about the State's planning system, which they claim is too costly and lacking experienced planners.
At the heart of the matter are inconsistencies across the State's local councils.
AN increase in institutional ownership of major commercial and retail properties in Perth led to a rise in the number of sales completed in 2002 without an agent's involvement.
A Perth chef has brought a little touch of class back to the preparation of a fine cup of coffee with the arrival from Belgium of the Royal Coffeemaker, as Julie-anne Sprague reports.
COULD there soon be a new restaurant in Applecross? There has been talk for some time that the former Heathcote Hospital site, with its exceptional views, would be a good home for a restaurant. Gusto has heard that two prominent Perth restaurateurs have
With the sun setting on the festive season David Pike turns his mind to pre-season training for its return next year and the contemplation of some Tasmanian offerings.
TWO separate studies released over the past month have highlighted the risk of insolvency among Australian companies.
The studies formed markedly different views on the degree of risk, however, leaving investors and business people with an awkward
INVESTORS and business people trying to assess the credit quality of other companies can assess a range of financial and non-financial indicators.
John Carello, the reconstruction and advisory services partner at accounting firm PKF, said warning signs
WA Business News' inaugural survey of Western Australian equity capital markets has highlighted the dominance of a handful of stockbroking firms. Mark Beyer looks at the market in 2002 and its prospects for 2003.
THE large paperwork and compliance load on small businesses has been highlighted by a new tax office report on its compliance program for 2002-03.
The report itemises the volume of paperwork facing Australia's 2.5 million ‘micro' businesses;
CORPORATE finance executives have nominated Croesus Mining's purchase of Central Norseman Gold as WA's top deal for 2002.
The $65 million Croesus-Great Central deal gained high praise from nearly every corporate finance executive surveyed by WA Business
DICKENSIAN England gave us the blood-curdling Tale of Two Cities.
Not to be outdone, WA is giving us the intriguing ‘Tale of Two Nor-West Resorts'.
Back in the Dowding years the Labor government called for expressions of interest to develop a resort at
LEAGUE tables always generate plenty of debate, both for the rankings they produce and the methodology employed to construct them.
The contentious nature of league tables is illustrated by the fact that four different broking firms could claim to be the
PHARMACEUTICAL developer Chemeq and gold miner Abelle were two prominent companies that managed to raise fresh equity last year without using broking firms.
Chemeq raised a total of $18 million in fresh equity while Abelle completed a successful $10m
STOCKBROKER Euroz Securities is moving to new premises to accommodate recent and planned growth in the business.
A major recent initiative was the establishment of a dedicated corporate finance department, headed by new recruits Karl Paganin and Doug
THERE can be little argument that electronic mail is a mission-critical and indispensible business tool upon which most enterprises are partially or totally dependent.
However, as is often the case with technologies offering significant advantages to
SECURITY risk specialists Osprey Asset Management (OAM) has used digital asset software to produce an interactive travel risk-training package.
OAM last year commissioned Perth company Optimiser to develop software to allocate usage time for the CD-based
WHILE 2003 may not have had quite the bleak beginning of 2002, talk of cutbacks and consolidations within the advertising industry is rife.
A fall in consumer confidence and the Western Australian Government's decision last year to cut its advertising
PLANNING marketing and sales offerings around special occasions can be a successful way for small businesses to build their profits.
Traditionally these dates included Mothers Day, Fathers Day, Christmas and Easter, how-ever, Australia Day and Anzac Day
A RECENT union attempt to use the enterprise orders created by WA's new industrial relations laws has highlighted the Australian Industrial Relations Commission's unwillingness to engage in State-based industrial relations issues unless some form
THE absence of regulation in the strata management industry has provoked concern about this $28.5 billion sector of the residential property market.
The chairman of a Legislative Assembly inquiry into the strata management industry in WA, Member
A PROPOSAL for an 86-room floating hotel at Barrack Square has been given conditional approval by the City of Perth Council.
The $25 million development proposal, put forward by local operation PH3 Property Group, will now go before the Swan Rive
Executive remuneration is one of the most contentious issues in Australian business. Mark Beyer looks behind the raw numbers to find the ‘best value' executives.
With what has been a big year in wine coming to a close, David Pike takes the opportunity to reflect on what 2002 had to offer for lovers of the grape.
SEVEN WA companies paid more than $1 million to their top executive in their latest financial year. The big payers are heavily biased towards WA's largest companies, ranked by market capitalisation.
