Julie-anne Sprague

ARMED with a relatively small commercial TV budget but a need to boost unprompted brand awareness StateWest Credit Society and JMG Marketing have embarked on an eye-catching advertising campaign.

HOSPITALITY industry stalwart Warren Mead has acquired West Perth restaurant Savoia from flamboyant restaurateur Davide Bianchi. WA Business News understands that Mr Mead has purchased the business for $600,000.

THE directors of O’Brien’s Irish Sandwich Bar opened their second store in one of WA’s oldest buildings at 200 St Georges Terrace this week.

THE Opposition has made a major move to win back the hearts and minds of Western Australian small business owners by promising to maintain regulated retail shopping hours.

MJB&B Advertising and Marketing hopes to have its public relations spin-off Livewire Communications running as a self-sufficient business within 18 months.

The Film and Television Institute is part of the reason WA is being recognised as a place brimming with film production specialists. Julie-anne Sprague investigates.

WITH the absence of big name fashion magazines and fashion shows Perth’s modelling agencies compete for the work found within the confines of Perth’s advertising industry.

ABOUT 7,500 surf lifesavers will descend on Scarborough Beach in 2007 and generate more than $20 million in direct spending in Western Australia.

WESTERN Australia is becoming increasingly recognised as a place brimming with film, television, animation and production specialists.

FOR a company involved in an industry that is low in the “trust” stakes direct marketing of its services becomes a tough task.

Family operated and WA-based Gull Petroleum has met the serious challenges of a highly competitive industry with vigour. As major retail chains now fight for some of its market, the company is gearing up for yet another battle.

A REPORT by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission that found Western Australia’s FuelWatch program had reduced retail competition and had likely increased Perth petrol prices will be

ITS Golfing Western Australia television series may only be a few weeks old but FWA Media says there is a good market for a magazine version of the show.

GALVIN Engineering will further expand its export markets this year as the company soars towards a projected revenue of $9 million.

MULTI-MILLION dollar international contract wins, the appointment of senior staff and company acquisitions are just the first major announcements local video streaming company PIVoD plans to make this year.

Korean barbecue is proving extremely successful – so much so that there are plans to expand on the concept in Perth. Julie-anne Sprague investigates.

CONDUCTING market research in-house is not unheard of and, so long as a few strategies are adopted, it can provide credible information to base business decisions on. 

A SON studying economics and a daughter heavily involved in design leaves Alan Linney with a wealth of talent that has the potential to continue his successful 30-year-old jewellery business.

AS a young, professional woman I fit the profile used by national retail giants as an example of the consumer in need of greater shopping hours – well all except for the kids.

IF the State Government decides that it will make major changes to WA’s retail trading hours it will need to gain support from the Opposition and/or WA’s minor political parties.

Could David Bianchi’s West Perth restaurant Savoia be a takeover target for industry heavyweight Warren Mead? Julie-anne Sprague investigates.

AFTER months of reading, sorting, compiling and, not to mention, designing, Block Branding has produced Craftwest’s Designing Futures Forum book, Shifting Foundations.

THE catering business is good business, according to the proprietors of Beaumonde Catering as it moved to appoint business brokers last week to find an investor to help support the business.

DESOLATE local shopping centres, sluggish employment growth, and greater dominance of major supermarket chains are the truths of a deregulated retail trading environment according

Harvey Norman chairman Gerry Harvey is a strong supporter of a deregulated retail trading market and is bemused that WA remains a restrictive trading environment.

The future of Western Australia’s retail landscape is under scrutiny as lobbyists from across the country descend on WA to pitch their arguments in favour of retail trading hour deregulation.

WHILE B Digital’s plan for world domination may not have eventuated it has certainly gained a significant national presence in the mobile telecommunications industry and, with an advertising budget of $8.5

PETER Hanley, the founder and former managing director of listed telecommunication reseller Pahth Telecommunications, is in the midst of building another empire, albeit with no in

LOCAL software systems and services company Empired Limited is poised to export its human resource management tool BigRedSky to overseas tertiary education markets.

MILLION dollar views they might have but it seems even Perth’s riverside restaurants are susceptible to the effects of a decline in tourist numbers with two prominent restaurateurs falling to economic pressure.

Wine guru Shaun Maher has embarked on a new venture designed to produce wine lists and on-the-job training for staff, as Julie-anne Sprague reports.

THE WA Independent Grocers Association’s “More Hours Means Less Shops” campaign has netted almost 50,000 consumer signatures to letters opposing the State Government’s proposition