Inglewood-based IT provider, Bekkers, is looking to significantly expand its data storage business with its relocation to a 1,000 square metre purpose-built office in Bassendean Business Park, encorporating a 400sq m data centre.
Craig Mostyn Group has overcome its first major hurdle over plans to expand its Linley Valley pork abattoir in Wooroloo, after the Shire of Northam last night approved the group's application.
West Perth-based grain storage and marketer, Co-operative Bulk Handling Group, has warned that its strong $87.3 million net profit in 2005-06, a rise of a more than 40 per cent, won’t be repeated this year due to this season’s drought.
It was while working as a spare parts interpreter that Dennis Bozic recognised the potential for a new product that could make his job a great deal easier.
After an abrupt halt to her career and a costly legal battle, Mareena Sear is now preparing to re-enter the industry in which she, as part of her family business, was a dominant player for more than 20 years.
West Perth-based grain storage and marketer Co-operative Bulk Handling Group has warned that its strong $87.3 million net profit, a rise of a more than 40 per cent, won't be repeated this year due to the drought last season.
While ASX-listed ABC Learning Centres clearly dominates the state’s childcare sector, some Western Australian-based independent operators have also embarked on rapid expansion programs in response to a growing demand for their services.
When industrial products group Atkins Carlyle offered the opportunity for a management buy-out of its hydraulics manufacturing business in 2000, five of its senior management team seized the opportunity with great enthusiasm.
Western Australian-based company Grainol Ltd looking to develop its first WA plant in the East Rockingham Industrial Park, the second for the Kwinana-Rockingham industrial area.
The city’s taxi industry continues to plague the local tourism sector, with hotel owners and tourism business operators joining in a chorus of outrage over the standard of the service.
A study looking at Perth’s hotel needs for the next 15 years is expected to reveal significant capacity constraints as the sector experiences its biggest growth period in two decades.
A small gold exploration company has big plans to create Western Australia’s next gold super pit, with the discovery of a potential giant ore deposit at their tenements located near Meekatharra.
When Bruce and Wendy Hawley took over Welshpool-based geotechnical materials testing company, Western Geotechnics Group, in October 2003, they realised that investing in their employees was going to be a major priority.
Former Perth Airport chief executive Graham Muir has called on current airport management to fast-track the development of an integrated domestic and international airport terminal in line with its now 20-year-old master plan.
WA Business News invited some of the state’s leading tourism identities to discuss the key challenges facing the industry, and to offer a possible vision for the future of the sector in WA.
As the sector’s dominant player, agribusiness investment manager Great Southern Ltd is used to successfully weathering legislative storms. And the latest ATO tax challenge for non-forestry MIS will be no different, according to executive director and gene
With uncertainty surrounding the future of non-forestry managed investment schemes, promoters are expecting an increase in MIS project sales this year.
The S2M2 franchise has established 12 outlets from Joondalup to Mandurah since expanding its importing, wholesaling and distribution business into a vertically integrated retail chain just more than three years ago.
The federal government’s February 6 announcement that the ATO would cease issuing product rulings for non-forestry managed investment schemes after July 1, thereby removing the 100 per cent up-front tax deduction, sent shockwaves through the industry.
Developing four new large-scale accommodation projects in two years may seem ambitious, but it’s all part of Broadwater Hotels and Resorts’ goal of establishing itself as Western Australia’s premier resort brand.
Western Australian company, Broadwater Hotels and Resorts, is set to spearhead two of the state’s landmark tourism accommodation projects in the coming year.
Ambitious growth plans into the eastern states and South-East Asia are behind a plan by Australia’s only independent real estate search website, aussiehome.com, to list on the ASX later this year.
Western Australia’s buoyant tourism industry is about to receive a welcome boost, with more than $288 million worth of tourism accommodation projects currently under construction across the state.
Tony Berry’s first priority upon inheriting his father’s one-man rubbish removal business 10 years ago was to grow the operation by focusing on its strengths.
Four acquisitions in just more than a year has propelled Kwinana-based waste management solutions provider Tox Free Solutions from a $1.5 million company two years ago to a business with a market cap of $130 million.
Verne Harnish says there is a bit of entrepreneur in everybody. And he should know, having gone from working in his father’s appliance repair business to now travelling the globe in his role as an international company growth guru.
Waste management company Tox Free Solutions Ltd has recorded strong earnings results for the half year ended December 31 2006, on the back of intense acquisition activity.
Exporting Western Australia’s rich natural resources and unique design aesthetic to the world, Northbridge-based Jacque Cyrille Designs is considered at the forefront of boutique jewellery design.
Diversified agribusiness, food and logistics company, Craig Mostyn Group, has become a dominant player in Western Australian agribusiness since relocating its head office from Sydney to Fremantle last year.
Craig Mostyn Group chief executive David Lock has called on the state government to intervene in a conflict between the agribusiness group’s proposed abattoir extension and a proposed residential development.
Waiting times at licensing and vehicle examination centres across Perth have reached crisis point, with affected businesses demanding the state government improve resources across the board.
