The town of Denham in the world heritage Shark Bay region has been flagged as the second tourism development site as part of Tourism Western Australia’s Landbank initiative.
A new name, new premises and new business focus for Jandakot-based Skyworx Aviation is set to solidify the company’s position as Western Australia’s largest specialist aircraft products manufacturer.
Many Western Australian small businesses are failing to take full advantage of recent advances in information technology, particularly for online trading and new market access, according to the Small Business Development Corporation.
Western Australia is poised to become the world’s biggest producer of sandalwood, as native supply from traditionally strong suppliers in Asia diminishes and global demand strengthens.
A heightened threat of terrorism, the increasing sophistication of criminal activity and a growth in ‘white collar’ crime are changing the way many businesses configure the security component of their risk management programs.
The success of Five Senses Coffee, according to its founder and master roaster Dean Gallagher, lies as much in the philosophy of the company as it does in the quality of the product.
AWB’s role as Australia’s monopoly wheat exporter may officially still be in the balance, but Western Australian wheat growers have already begun preparing for a shake-up of the 68-year-old wheat marketing system.
The Australian wine industry must build strength back into its brands and collectively work towards overcoming the wine glut, according the industry’s national peak body.
South West hoteliers are seeking tougher regulations on holiday home operators in the Busselton and Augusta-Margaret River shires in the face of increasing private accommodation in residential areas & static occupancy rates at larger establishments.
Doyen of the Western Australian tourism industry, Laurie O’Meara, has been awarded the highest recognition of individual contribution to the industry at the 2006 WA Tourism Awards.
Perth hotel industry figures have rejected claims by some businesses of a periodic shortage in room availability, despite occupancy rates in city hotels rising to their highest level in recent years.
Growers are voting with their wheat, according to WA grain handlers CBH Group, with figures indicating that more than 70 per cent of total tonnages received so far this harvest have gone into warehousing, or to the CBH Group wheat pool.
Spending more time working in a growing business, as opposed to working on it, can be a barrier for business owners in their ability to develop sustainable growth.
Agribusiness investment company RuralAus has made it first new investment since emerging from voluntary administration 14 months ago, putting $500,000 into Western Australia’s largest craft brewer, Gage Roads Brewing Company.
Several local councils could receive ratings payments into the millions of dollars if the state government’s plan to remove ratings exemptions for mining companies under State Mining Agreements comes to fruition.
With a small team of four, adopting more efficient business practices was vital for MatchPoint Consulting to better service the needs of the state’s resources sector during industry’s boom time.
Caxton Co-operative was developed by five like-minded WA Snap Printing franchise holders as a way of growing their individual businesses by collectively investing in equipment to expand of their services.
Aspects of the federal government’s industrial relations reforms continue to cause problems for business, with the Australian Fair Pay Commission’s first minimum wage ruling last week creating confusion among some Western Australian employers and industry
As CEO of Western Australia’s only carpet manufacturer, Westwools Carpets Pty Ltd, Jim Coles is in no doubt about where he thinks the future of his company, and the manufacturing and textiles industries as a whole, needs to head in order to be competitive
Australia could have an emissions trading scheme in place, on target to reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by 60 per cent, as soon as 2010, if state and territory leaders get their wish.
Already home to more businesses than any other local government precinct, the City of Stirling has further signalled its commerce-friendly regime with a new program designed to cut red tape and streamline regulation approvals.
The shift away from a fly-in, fly-out work culture to a more stable residential workforce is forcing some mining companies, and the state government, to re-evaluate their commitment to infrastructure developments in the regional areas that play home to th
The Western Australian wine industry may take longer to recover from the current wine glut than other wine producing states, due to high production costs and reliance on exports to premium markets.
When Perth-based search engine marketing company ineedhits came on the scene in 1996, 45 million internet users worldwide were searching Alta Vista; Hotmail and Internet Explorer had just been commercially launched, and Google was still two years away.
When one of his suppliers went into liquidation, RedSky managing director Peter Hanley turned a potential setback into an opportunity to add to the company’s already extensive telephone system product suite.
