Catie Low

IN keeping with its rather cavalier corporate profile, Palandri Wines has bucked the trend and thrown off its eastern states advertising agency in favour of Perth’s Ad Impact Advertising.

WAS the Federal Govern-ment’s rejection of the Royal/ Dutch Shell takeover bid for Woodside Petroleum deft political instinct or answering the parochial calls of the media?

PERTH broadcast solutions business Data & Commerce Ltd has announced a multi million dollar deal with Sky TV Turkey to provide digital television broadcasting infrastructure.

IN a bold move, local advertising agency 303 has dumped its $2 million client the TAB to join the chase for the Burswood Resort Casinobusiness.

THE beginning of a brash new trend in advertising has been heralded by a giant pair of legs in vivid red shoes in the Perth CBD.

THE power of the baby boomer generation in shaping the media was graphically illustrated this week with the release of the results of the third radio ratings survey for 2001.

THE sudden arrival of winter in Perth also heralds the start of the Salvation Army’s major fund-raising drive, the Red Shield Appeal.

AUSTRALIA’S major regional broadcasters have formed a united front in the push to increase television advertising revenues in regional areas.

MIX 94.5 has retained its dominant position in Perth’s hard fought radio ratings wars, claiming 22.7 per cent of the market or more than half a million listeners every week after one of the sector’s most tumultuous periods.

THE process of choosing sponsorship partners is as much about financial investment as it is about corporate reputation.

A RUSTING blue vessel was escorted into Fremantle Port this week to face allegations its crew took $1.5 million worth of Patagon-ian toothfish from Australian waters near Heard Island.

TWO WA women developing an Internet-based scientific analysis business have won a national business award for strategy and enterprise.

FASHION and good design shouldn’t be the exclusive realm of women who measure up to a perfect size 10.Local business woman Victoria Neil is taking her passion for clothes designed for “real women” to Sydney for Mercedes Fashion Week this month.

THE fight for the fast food dollar has never been more competitive or complicated, as the traditional players are forced to look to new markets to compete with the burgeoning ready-to-eat sections in supermarkets.

A LOCAL printing company has used digital technology to slow the steady flow of work being lost from WA to cities on the east coast.

WHETHER it’s the financial rewards or the romance of books, or even a blend of both, a new franchise opportunity in book retail has provoked a big response in WA.

THE Australian workforce is currently comprised of four different generations who have grown up in entirely different social and cultural conditions.

THE Forest Products Commission has dismissed concerns the Government will be unable to honour the existing forest product contracts following the cessation of logging in old growth forest in WA.

INVESTMENT worth up to $800,000, including a brand new FM transmitter, might be just the sweetener needed to convince Curtin Radio to do a deal with local commercial AM radio stations.

SCULPTOR Robert Hitchcock has managed to break into the corporate market in Perth with a range of cast bronze bears and bulls.

INFORMATION and entertainment have proved a lucrative combination for local television production company MRG International headed by Russell Goodrick.

PERTH-based company Australian Indian Resources is embarking on a venture promoted as being at the forefront of the world’s largest mining boom.

BASIL Scaffidi may not be a familiar name among music and movie fans but the Perth born businessman has knocked the elite of Australia’s entertainment industry’s off the earnings perch.

IN the highly competitive television marketing war, millions of dollars are spent every year to convert client advertising budgets into retail sales.

MARKETFORCE and MJB&B have denied they were considering a merger proposal to combat a slowdown in the advertising industry.

HIGH-profile Perth businesswoman Valerie Davies has accepted a consultancy role at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.

DEPARTMENT of Commerce and Trade figures show the WA export market was worth more than $25 billion comprising 26.1 per cent of the total national exports in 1999-2000.

STATE Government support for a proposal to carry the Access 31 signal on the Westlink satellite service in regional areas will give country audiences the chance to watch locally developed content and explore the possiblity of

IMAGES of the Avon Valley will be beamed into television sets across Australia as part of Network Ten Perth’s commitment to local events and the WA Tourism Commission.

LOCAL interior design firms have added their voice to the chorus of local suppliers concerned by the growing number of local commissions awarded to eastern states-based companies.

WORKSAFE WA has enlisted the services of local advertising agency Vinten Browning to promote safe working conditions in workplaces across WA and launch a new phase of its ThinkSafe campaign.

THE future of the WA Government’s $11.75 million contract with private court security company Australian Integration and Management Services Corporation could rest with the results of an inquiry into a prison escape due to be released next week.