Matt Shackleton has joined Australian Wine Holdings Limited as group financial controller.
Formerly finance manager for Skywest Airlines, Mr Shackleton has also held positions with Sealcorp in Perth.
Millepede International Ltd – an Australian company with global sales rights to a newly developed plastic tie fastener – has appointed Glenn Tetley non-executive director.
Taxation specialist and business advisory firm KD Johns & Co has appointed four new taxation accountants - Tanya Dyson (left), Jenna McClure (centre), Bree Fraser (right) and James Kirk.
Gerard Daniels Australia has recently appointed Jennifer Grove as an associate with the executive search team.
Ms Grove was most recently an adviser to Federal Attorney-General Daryl Williams.
The WA Pork Producers’ Association has a new executive officer, David McFerran.
Mr McFerran was an executive officer with the WA Farmers’ Federation from 2000 until 2002.
Simone Hanson has been promoted to general manager of the Mercure Inn Kununurra.
Ms Hanson previously held the position of hotel manager at Mercure Inn Overland Kalgoorlie.
Specialist anaesthetist Brent Donovan has been elected president of the AMA (WA) for 2003 - 2004.Dr Donovan, who has been State vice-president for the past three years, will take over from Bernard Pea
THE Opposition has made a major move to win back the hearts and minds of Western Australian small business owners by promising to maintain regulated retail shopping hours.
DEBT collection firm Charter Mercantile closed its Perth office last Friday after battling unsuccessfully for two years to build a viable business in Western Australia.
LOCAL independent electrical retailer Rick Hart Group has appointed Nicholas Kirby as group general manager.
Mr Kirby was previously a director of the Hi-Fi Corporation in Australia.
WESTERN Australian Government moves to accelerate the collection of stamp duty on the sale of businesses from July 1 is going to put an onerous strain on small business operators.
EDITH Cowan University has moved a step closer to realising an estimated $40 million windfall, with the Western Australian Government’s release of proposed amendments to the metropolitan region scheme.
WHILE government departments, resource companies and several mid-sized professional services firms currently look for new space, tenants are in no mood to rush and as a result Perth’s CBD leasing market is moving at a slow pace.
LOCAL developers of paid parking software, iPark, have signed a distribution agreement with Chubb that provides the company with significant sales potential across Australia.
FOR anyone thinking of making a tax-effective investment during the final weeks of this financial year, a review of the collapse of Tuart Resources should prove a timely eye opener.
ASCENT Capital Pty Ltd has developed a specialisation in salvaging the remnants of failed companies and the proposal that will be put to Tuart Resources shareholders is just the latest in a series of similar moves.