A NEW player with a familiar name has arrived in WA with ambitious plans to capture a share of the lucrative health insurance market.National group Manchester Unity has embarked on a serious marketing campaign to attract new members.
AUSTAL Limited subsidiary, Austal USA, has sold its first passenger catamaran in the US.The company will build and deliver an 86-foot passenger catamaran to Lighthouse Fast Ferry of New York by July this year.
CHANGE Corporation, the IT consultancy started up by ex-Method MD Stephen Langsford, is understood to be close to announcing a number of strategic deals.
CURTIN Radio 927 will soon cease to exist following a decision this week to hand back its community broadcasting licence to the Australian Broadcasting Authority, due to a lack of funding.
ANDERSEN Australia had barely moved in with Ernst & Young this week when well-known former Andersen tax partner, Keith Johns, opened his doors in West Perth.
A LEGISLATIVE Council motion to block Government plans to increase court fees has been foiled.The WA Greens sided with Labor upper house members to undermine the Opposition’s motion, even though they had agreed to side with the Liberals.
PROPERTY players have warned that the rapid growth in property syndication is attracting fringe players looking to capitalise on the strength of the market.There are concerns that investors are being hawked risky offers in a heated market.
MORE than 10,500 WA businesses have been targeted by the Australian Taxation Office in a May 31 crackdown on those who have been lax in lodging GST-related statements.
I HAVE to give credit where credit is due.This week’s WA Business News focus is on our State’s competitiveness, how we stack up against the rest of the country when it comes to the critical issues of why a business would locate here.
CLAIMS have emerged that petty political delaying tactics were behind the absence of Liberal Legislative Council members when the Govern-ment pushed its controversial industrial relations legislation a step closer to becoming law.
INCREASING numbers of State MPs are retiring from Parliament and launching careers as well-paid lobbyists, in the process drawing incomes over and above their handsome six-figure parliamentary pensions.
AS WA-registered Aquarius Platinum makes final preparations to present its South African interests to the Alternative Investment Market in London, Perth-based Platinum Australia is nearly ready to start up a suburban pilot plant.
MANY small retailers have started thinning staff numbers and are considering their business viability before the Labour Relations Reform legislation becomes law in June.
BGC boss Len Buckeridge, who has never shied away from taking on the union movement, has taken on a kindred spirit – former State Industrial Relations Minister Graham Kierath –as the company’s new troubleshooter.
SOFTWARE developer Calytrix Technologies will soon open offices in North America and Europe to pursue sales of its Calytrix SIMplicity into the major defence markets
THE administrator of Australian Internet domain names, .au Domain Administration Ltd, has extended the deadline for new second-level domain (2LD) name proposals to June 14 2002.
OCCUPANCY levels for hotels in WA have improved in the past six months, but have not returned to the levels experienced before the collapse of Ansett and the events of September 11, according to Sheraton Hotel Perth general manager Craig Seaward.
THE battle for market share may have driven businesses of all sizes to develop discount and loyalty schemes, but market research suggests that loyalty is not the powerful marketing tool it might appear. It seems careful service is the key.
A NEW magazine set for launch in Perth later this year will be aimed at helping unemployed and homeless people find some social and financial determination.
A NEW national tabloid mining publication has hit the streets, or mines as it were, with the launch last week of Simon Hadfield’s newest arrival, The Australian Mining Times.
THE samurai code has much to offer the recruitment industry, as some adventurous participants at last week’s 2002 Recruitment and Consulting Services Association conference, ‘Thriving in a Competitive World’, discovered.
RECENT comments by Justice Madgwick in the Federal Court have suggested that employers have a right to require employees to undergo medical examinations, even where there is no express contractual right in the employment contract.
