PERTH commercial builder Brown & Joy Industries was put into liquidation last week owing creditors about $3 million. Expressions of interest in the firm were called last month but no buyer came forward.
WA’S biggest industrial company, Wesfarmers, has won more than 90 per cent of takeover target Howard Smith and will move to compulsorily acquire the remainder.
THE East Perth Redevelopment Authority is pushing ahead with plans for a new supermarket within the Northbridge renewal area, between Fitzgerald Street and Lord Street.
THE WA Government is moving to make changes to its controversial Finance Brokers Control Act of 1975, which has stalled the entry of two mortgage products providers into the WA market.
WHILE the Australian Catholic University’s 12-month paid maternity leave offer has been branded as overly generous, some organisations are turning to such approaches to attract and retain staff.
CONCERNS that WA’s wine industry may be damaged by a glut of poor quality, mass-produced wines may be misplaced if current trends, outlined in newly released wine statistics, continue.
THE Federal Government has dismissed concerns that new privacy legislation for the private sector will be a burden on business similar to the compliance nightmares associated with Y2K and GST.
ARE consumers being forced to choose form over taste when buying fruit? And are they prepared to pay extra for something that is guaranteed to taste good?
COMPANIES that go public and want to give their employees a slice of the action at discount prices can find they have left their workers with an unpleasant tax surprise.
WESTERN Mining Corporation’s executive general manager for exploration, Jack Parry, made some startling claims at the CPA Australia Resources Convention in Perth last week.
NOBODY moves faster than the Generation Xers. Those who were born between 1961 and 1981 are the first generation to create a new economy and then watch it crash – the dot.com experiment.
PRIVACY is looming as a major issue for business of the same magnitude as Y2K and the GST. And, just as with those two crises, the message is being broadcast that privacy will build better businesses.
The Belmont Business Enterprise (BEC) is proud to again present the Belmont Small Business Awards, recognising the professionalism of businesses in the Belmont area.
WA’S Internet Services Providers have welcomed plans by Australia’s top telecommunications watchdog to introduce a code of conduct for the ISP industry.
WHILE the low Aussie dollar may mean holidays to the US and the UK are more expensive, it is providing Perth-based IT companies with a chance to expand into international markets.
SUCCESSIVE governments, both state and federal, have been on the receiving end of vitriolic public criticism over the decline in levels of service to rural areas.
A LOCAL computer wholesale distributor has received a boost from Acer Communications and Multimedia’s strategy to increase its penetration across state markets.
THE sale of locally-produced documentary series Animal Allies to Britain’s Independent Television Network is a major coup for Perth-based production company Storyteller Productions.
IN a small home office just off King Street in Perth there’s a man busy on a paper round, delivering about 5,000 different publications to homes and offices around the globe.
PERTH, once dubbed the city of lights by American astronaut John Glenn, may soon live up to its name with illuminated signs designed by WA company Lumacom set to start a new trend in company branding and advertising.
