After working as a mortgage broker for seven years Greg Pennells and his partner, Ross Begley, had become disillusioned and disappointed by the lack of support available to mortgage
Nikki Griffiths has experienced the hardship of business early in her career and, at 26, has over-come adversity to create a successful graphic design operation.
From beginnings as a one-man operation in 1992, Carmelo Princiotto has built his business, Jamel Industries, into one of WA's largest domestic furniture manufacturers, specialising
THE past few weeks have brought good news to about 20 steel fabricators around Perth.
Engineering firm Monadelphous has been progressively sub-contracting $30 million worth of work for BHP Billiton's Area C iron ore mine and port expansion projects.
Armed with a single power saw, nail bag, some borrowed materials and plenty of ambition, registered builder Pedro Turibaka began work on his first construction site, a small East Pe
OVER the past two years, Western Australian companies have been awarded contracts worth more than $1.7 billion on big mining and resource processing projects.
In three years Anthony Hasluck has created a number of PR and design-based consultancies that have made Clarity Communications one of the fastest growing consultancies in WA.
BASSENDEAN firm Specialised Welding is one of many local firms to have worked on Woodside's $1.6 billion Train Four project.
However, its client was not Woodside. Instead it was the Japanese pump manufacturer Nikisso.
Since losing his mother and sister in a car accident at just seven years of age, Paul Hennessy has developed a desire to live life to its full and a tenacity to overcome adversity.
For the past 15 years Professor Duane Varan has balanced a lecturing career in both Perth and the US with consultancy work for the A-list in world commerce.
LESS than a year after it was bought out of financial difficulty, Western Australian advertising agency ReynoldStratagem has disappeared from the landscape.
THE home has become a favoured work site, whether on a full-time basis or for the flexibility it can offer.
ABS statistics for the year 2000 say that 20 per cent of people worked in their own home or a home other than their employer's or client's home.
A new scheme to maximise local content on major projects formally took effect on January 1. Mark Beyer takes a close look at how major Western Australian projects are performing.
WE read your article on the importance of securing Internet domain names in WA Business News (January 30 2003) and concur that picking a good domain name is importa
COMPANIES hoping to win big contracts from the Western Australian Government are now required to prepare Australian Industry Participation (AIP) plans.
