Catie Low

RAPID growth has forced local strategic marketing company Brain-cells to relocate to more spacious premises at the old fire station in Claremont.

WA leisure company Games R Us is planning to shift its corporate headquarters to Queensland after the $1.4 million purchase of seven Software Today retail stores from the Strathfield Group.

THE Internet has emerged as a powerful tool in the HR industry.

FOLLOWING Channel Seven’s decision not to match the Channel Nine consortium bid for the television rights to the AFL, Channel Nine is already moving to build its commentary team.

A HIGH-LEVEL departure at Marketforce has prompted significant changes to the shareholders’ register of Perth’s biggest advertising agency.

PERTH accounting firm Moore Stephens BG have employed a regatta of yachts to raise their profile in the corporate community in 2001.

ON the first floor of the King Street Arts Centre there is a business purely devoted to celebrating the magic of art in our city

There’s some pretty powerful political messages appearing around Perth in the last few days of the election campaign, but they’re not part of any official advertising campaign.

THE unlikely combination of art and mining has found a unique fusion in an exhibition of Richard Woldendorp's photography.

THE relaunched AQWA is looking to net the lucrative tourist dollar with their revamped underwater exhibition and a radical new marketing plan.

WHILE most advertising agencies are just warming up for 2001, MJB&B have attracted a new national advertising account to their client list.

AT 190 Whatley Crescent Maylands, in a row of shops behind the noise and dust of the street and train, there’s a small shop door that invites you into a world of crime, murder and intrigue.

THE Perth Theatre Trust is close to selling BOCS ticketing to Ticketmaster7.The sale of the State-owned ticket selling body was put up for tender in November 2000.

ABC Radio personality Liam Bartlett has been called back early from summer holidays to cover the WA State Election for 720 6WF.

THE two major parties will spend an estimated $2.6 million on election advertising campaigns in the lead up to the February 10 State election.

WA mining radio station Red FM has developed a series of incisive safety messages for the mining and petroleum industry in WA.

AT NOON on Saturday January 27 the population of Perth is invited to come and watch four Melbourne men move into one of the most expensive residential spaces in Perth.

PERTH copywriter Brendon Guthrie and Soul Films have been awarded Screenwest and Australian Film Commission funding to produce a 28-minute short film.

MARIO D’Orazio has returned to Channel Seven’s news and current affairs team after a year at the head of a Sydney-based stockbroking site, Egoli online.

PERTH design firms are losing high-profile contracts to the east, with key WA Government agencies and big businesses like Woodside heading interstate to spruce up their corporate images.

LAUGHTER is emerging as Channel Nine’s key weapon in the battle for the prime time market share in 2001.

THE early hot start to summer has helped support good ticket sales in Perth’s outdoor cinema venues this summer including the previously unpopular Joondalup Pines.

THE WA advertising industry will remember 2000 for the tragic death of industry leader John Davis from John Davis Advertising.

THE Watershed is to be resurrected as the centrepiece of the Perth International Arts Festival in Northbridge despite the large losses it incurred in its first year.

AUTHOR and public relations specialist David Michie has taken a senior position with Perth’s Ward Holt in between writing his third novel.

PERTH-based Burdekin Pacific, formerly Burdekin Resources NL, is playing a major role in the first interactive television pilot in Australia due to an investment in ICE interactive.

THE troubled retail sector has brought forward its festive season sales to the vital pre-Christmas period in a bid to boost spending in the most important time of the year for retailers.

THE Perth advertising industry has lost another major account to the east coast, with Australian giant National Foods shifting the $1 million Masters Dairy account to Melbourne.

CHANNEL 9 Perth has appointed West Australian journalist Steve Pennells chief of staff.

PUMP100, Perth’s internet dance music radio station, was launched at the Church nightclub in Northbridge on Saturday.

INTERNATIONAL communications giant Motorola has unveiled plans for a $50 million advanced software engineering centre in Perth.

SYDNEY advertising heavyweight Michael Ball has joined forces with former Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett to float a “Superagency”’ in March 2001.