Adam Orlando

PERTH corporate advisory experts expect a surge of private equity deals in Western Australia over the next 12 months, as markets rebound and businesses bounce back to profitability.

OFFICE 2 Go was created by Belmont-based office furniture manufacturer, Freiberg Australia, in 2007 to accommodate the growing number of urgent requirements by clients that needed a fast turnaround in office fit-outs.

PINK isn’t a colour usually associated with Western Australia’s traditionally male-dominated mine sites. But with about 14,000 Australian women diagnosed with breast cancer each year, mining dump body tray manufacturer Duratray International has gone pin

THE not-for-profit sector was among those most affected by the economic downturn, with about half of the respondents of a recent survey experiencing a decline in income in the six months to February.

Subiaco-based engineering and construction contractor group, Doric, says it is on track to deliver the $138 million Hedland Health Campus to the Pilbara after already delivering key regional hospitals in Denmark and Broome.

LARGE organisations eager to contribute to the not-for-profit sector often lack the time to adequately research where funds or workplace volunteers can be best directed.

THE Asbestos Diseases Society of Australia has welcomed the strengthening of Western Australia’s occupational health and safety laws aimed at ensuring only licensed workers with the proper skills can remove asbestos.

THE ability to embrace different perspectives and make different choices might help the West Coast Eagles out of their early season form slump, at least if coach John Worsfold can redirect his team’s focus.

PHASE Change Products Pty Ltd researches, develops and markets phase-change materials used to reduce energy outputs in a wide-range of appliances and industries.

LOOKING at the success of Burswood-based JCS Motorcycles over the past 30 years, it is fitting the family-owned shop is a speci

THE Small Business Development Corporation has warned small business owners, bookkeepers and tax consultants to familiarise the

ROD Henderson formed Television Communications in 1981 to import and distribute broadcast audio and video products into the Western Australian market.

GOODWIN Mitchell O’Hehir & Associates has a problem. The West Perth-based firm’s accountancy broker, Garry Manners, has 10 buyers looking for metropolitan practices, but has only one firm in the south-western suburbs to offer them.

AFTER two years of legal wrangling, nine Western Australian councils that lost millions of dollars of ratepayers’ money through Lehman Brothers Australia can pursue claims against the failed investment bank.

THE most recent statistics from the Australian Taxation Office regarding private ancillary funds show strong growth in donations and assets in the philanthropic sector.

IN three decades of being in business together, Pindan owners George Allingame and David Pringle say they have disagreed on little.

AT a time when many local companies are taking their manufacturing base offshore to cut costs, Perth-based underwear brand 2wink Australia has done just the opposite.

WHEN both Deb Macksy and Kim Gilbert lost relatives to cancer in 2007, the business owners felt compelled to ensure the survival of struggling SolarisCare Foundation, which had helped their families cope with the disease.

THE Fair Work Ombudsman has recouped more than $130,000 for about a dozen workers in the past month following a series of investigations.

SMALL business owners have called on the federal government to abolish the $1,000 import tax-free threshold, which they say is killing some industries and forcing businesses to close.

THE market for business coaches has evolved in Western Australia but there’s plenty of room for growth, according to the owner of consultancy firm 10X Perth (North East), Jay Roberts.

THE lucrative Western Australian offshore oil and gas market has been the catalyst for a competitive push by the UK to establish more than 50 companies throughout the state over the past 10 years.

AFTER six years and millions of dollars spent on research and development, Malaga-based Automotive Technology Group is ready to take its Sprintex Supercharger systems to the global marketplace.

THE Australian Council of Social Service has developed a Standard Chart of Accounts (SCoA) to streamline the financial reporting process for not-for-profit organisations.

KEWDALE-based Sadleirs Transport has expanded its current contract with transport infrastructure company Asciano Group through a seven-year, $150 million deal to transfer rail wagons between Perth and Melbourne.

Almost 100,000 homes remain without power in Perth after a major storm swept across the city yesterday causing widespread flooding and damage.

European shares closed flat on Monday, with banks paring some earlier losses as worries over Greece eased, while drugmakers largely gained after the United States passed a healthcare bill which provided clarity for the sector.

WHEN Mick Caddy bought into the Mr Rental South West franchise in Bunbury in 2006, a single player dominated the household appliance rental market – Radio Rentals.

WHEN Perth-based not-for-profit Sports Challenge Australia was established in 1992, founder Garry Tester soon discovered the “onerous” nature of relying solely on government funding.

PERTH Glory owner Tony Sage says his club can only become profitable under plans to redevelop ME Bank Stadium if the state government wrests control of the East Perth venue from the Town of Vincent.

THERE is considerable dissatisfaction in the not-for-profit sector concerning the delivery of government-funded human and community services, the Productivity Commission has found.

FRANCHISES are gearing up for the most significant overhaul to the $128 billion sector since the introduction of the Franchising Code of Conduct in 1998, as the federal government moves to better protect the rights of franchisees.