Activity tour company Western Travel Bug has been a part of the Australian Tourism Exchange for almost a decade, and the company’s managing director, Brian Anderson, says ATE 05 in Perth couldn’t have come at a better time.
In universities, in public research institutions, even in the proverbial backyard sheds, vast numbers of inventive, creative types around Australia are looking for the next big breakthrough.
A new technology developed at Curtin University and currently being commercialised by Sydney company, Neuromonics, is seeking to change the widely held view that the medical condition tinnitus cannot be treated.
The significance of the UK to Australian investors is as much about the opportunities it provides in Europe as it is domestic returns, British High Commissioner Sir Alastair Goodlad told WA Business News’ recent Meet the Ambassadors lunch.
The University of Western Australia will use Edith Cowan University’s historic Claremont campus to assist international students meet the university’s tertiary benchmarks and entry requirements.
State Development Minister Alan Carpenter has targeted growth in local capacity, the development of export markets, and investment as the key areas facing the state’s information communications technology (ICT) industry.
For more than 25 years, the Cerinich men - Luka and his two sons Allan and Dennis - have been providing fruit and vegetables to the Perth community from their store Herdsman Fresh Essentials in Churchlands.
What is important to business leaders in Australia? This was the question IBM asked when developing the agenda for the IBM Forum 05 which took place in Perth on Tuesday.
Property valuer turned café owner Kevin Kelly wanted a secure cash flow without having to work from nine to five every day. After researching the options, Mr Kelly decided that buying a franchise was the way to go.
Leanne Preston is fast becoming Australia’s version of UK businesswoman and The Body Shop founder Anita Roddick, a comparison she is only too happy about.
PIVoD Technologies, a Perth-based provider of media on demand technology for use in museums, as well as residential and corporate systems, has secured a position in this year’s Rising Stars.
Perth technology development company Mobilarm recently negotiated a deal with the world’s largest marine retailer, US company West Marine, to supply its award-winning crew monitoring system, MOBi-lert.
What stands Change Corporation ahead of its competitors, according to the company’s managing director Rob Evans, is providing clients with a combined consulting and IT solutions service, but then going one step further and implementing the technology t
For the next 10 years, managers working in the Chinese gas industry are likely to attend a Perth-based executive education program to learn about the global gas industry from management, business and financial perspectives.
Sirie Palmos realised a 12-year dream last November when she started online underwear company hottie.com.au, but the growing success of the business is made even sweeter, she says, by the involvement of husband and sister.
Tourism operators and travel agents in Western Australia have joined forces with their counterparts in South Korea to develop a travel program and itinerary promoting WA as a tourism destination.
Perth rugby union franchise the Western Force, which will debut in next year’s inaugural Super 14 competition, is much more than a name and a black swan, according to Market Equity’s Brent Stewart. It is the result of months of community consultation, int
The number of international students coming to study in Western Australia increased by just 1.5 per cent in 2004, a figure Perth Education City’s chief executive Mike Ryan said he was “embarrassed” to reveal.
After 10 years as a City of Perth councillor, two of those as deputy lord mayor, Bert Tudori failed to win re-election at last weekend’s local government elections.
The Sicilian restaurant in Subiaco has reopened under new management and the new owners, Gallery Gold’s managing director Hamish Bohannan and his wife Julie, are promising to bring a fresh edge to the once-popular restaurant.
For almost 70 years, Perth food lovers and members of the city’s European community have enjoyed the delights of the Re Store on Lake Street in Northbridge.
Australia has failed to take full advantage of opportunities in the services sector in Saudi Arabia and the greater Middle East, according to Bob Tyson, outgoing Australian ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
Online website building service SiteNOW, created by Perth company Cube7, will be available through the ninemsn small business centre after the two companies joined forces last week.
An $8 million upgrade to Peters & Brownes Group’s Balcatta production facility is already paying dividends for the group, helping the dairy giant secure a major deal to supply super premium ice-cream to Japan.
Perth fashion designer Alvin Fernandez, creator of ae’lkemi, is one of 50 international designers invited to participate in Milan Fashion Week 2006 in September.
A small private company specialising in card technology has won a Public Transport Authority (PTA) tender worth more than $2 million for the provision of SmartRider cards – a ticketing system to replace train and bus MultiRiders.
