WHAT was conceived as a simple operation offering a couple of do-it-yourself barbecues and tapas-style food has become a five-star restaurant called Chesters of Heafod Glen.
THIS month Watershed Premium Wines begins the next stage of ambitious expansion plans aimed at making it the third biggest premium wine producer in Margaret River.
SIGNIFICANT renovations to The Brisbane Hotel commence next month that, by spring, should turn the pub into what its owners hope will be a destination venue.
WHILE The Water Corporation’s water restrictions might be causing headaches for local garden enthusiasts, they’ve created big business opportunities for a couple of Perth horticulturalists-turned-TV-stars.
HE may have created one of Perth’s best-known coffee shop chains and be busily building up his next hospitality empire, but Geoff Hayward (pictured above) is not one to broadcast his achievements.
PARTICIPANTS in the WA Business News innovation forum nominated nanotechnology and aquaculture as two sectors with enormous potential for Western Australia.
THE founders of Gage Roads Brewing Co expect to produce their first batch of beer by September this year following the recent completion of a $2.5 million capital raising.
DIGITAL content management systems developed by Bentley-based DCN (formerly Data-Cast.Net) have caught the attention of global airline industry heavyweight Water-mark.
HYDROGEN Technology is on the verge of commercialising its metal cutting and joining machine and will go to the market in the coming months to raise capital for a global product roll out.
MEETING with a group of venture capitalists is a great way to learn about some of the exciting and innovative businesses emerging from Western Australia.
THE participants in the WA Business News innovation forum agree that Western Australia’s universities need to drive commercial outcomes from their basic research.
COLLTECH Australia Limited will close its $4.5 million IPO this Friday, January 23, and, if all goes to plan, will produce collagen from sheep by the end of the year.
LOCAL mobile phone supplier B Digital is embarking on an aggressive product expansion, including new Internet and home phone services, that is aimed at making it a full service te
STRUCTURAL Monitoring Systems provides a classic example of a backyard inventor devising a breakthrough technology that is now being marketed around the world.
PERTH-BASED company FreeCargo has crafted software developed by academics at the University of Amsterdam into an online freight ordering system that provides real benefits to its users and revenue to the company.
How can Western Australian inventors and entrepreneurs turn smart ideas into commercial success? WA Business News brought together 10 experts last month to discuss the challenges and opportunities, as Mark Beyer and Julie-anne Sprague report
A LACK of managerial and business skill has been identified as one of the major problems facing innovators who want to commercialise their research breakthrough.
A recent trip to the US provided Perth chef Mark Taylor with a new business that may be the food industry’s most significant outsourcing development, as Julie-anne Sprague reports.
INDUSTRY groups have launched an advertising first for the North-West town of Broome aimed at developing a more cohesive brand identity for the popular tourist destination.
THE Western Australian Government’s current $90,000 “nuisance tax abolishment” advertising campaign is nothing more than stating the Government’s compliance to the intergovernmental agreement signed in 1999 according to business groups.
AFTER record crop harvests WA’s farmers are confidently driving capital into off-farm investments that are contributing to a surge in rural property prices according to analysts.
