AFTER four years of extensive research and development local communications start-up Ergotel has hit the crest of commercialisation and is in the process of securing further funding
A SURVEY of 3,680 taxi drivers, taxi plate owners and industry representatives was finalised last week and its results are expected to heavily influence the Western Australian Government’s decision on a possible buy-back of the State’s 1,116 taxi plates.
SOLAR Energy Systems managing director Anthony Maslin headed to the Maldives this week on the back of a funding allocation to investigate the potential for sales in the region.
INTERNATIONAL coffee giant Starbucks says Western Australia is part of its growth strategy, however, plans to open its first WA store are still in the “long-term” basket.
THE role of chief information officer has become increasingly important to large organisations as technology becomes essential to maintaining a competitive edge.
IT was the drought of the early 1990s that convinced wheat and sheep farmers Mary and Michael Nenke to try and make a living from what until then had been a hobby.
FERAL Brewery Company has tamed the opposition, or the judges at least, to win several prestigious awards at the recent Australian International Beer Awards.
DOME Coffee Australia has entered the growth phase of its coffee shop expansion with a new Cino to Go cafe opening in the city next week and offshore sites firmly on the agenda
The team at Fraser’s in Kings Park have decided that having one of the city’s best views isn’t enough ... there’s a new look inside too, as Julie-anne Sprague reports.
LOCAL ASX-listed biomedical company Xcell Diagnostics hopes to operate a US subsidiary by the end of the year to open up the American market for its revolutionary skin cancer detect
MARGARET River wine industry pioneer David Hohnen is on the hunt for a chief executive officer to take over the operations of Cape Mentelle Vineyards the company he co-founded in 1970.
INDUSTRY speculation has it that the name McCusker is at, or near, the top of the list to head the State Government’s proposed Crime and Corruption Commission.
MILLEPEDE International Limited, the local designer and manufacturer of plastic cable fasteners, has increased its stake in international subsidiary firms in a move to cash in on wh
Healthy and fast are two words that don’t often appear in the same sentence when descibing food, but as Julie-anne Sprague reports, that’s not always the case.
WESTERN Australia is clawing its way back up the Cooperative Research Centre funding ladder with a new CRC centre that was originally to be based in Victoria now moving to this State.
LOCAL water technology company Optum ES may move its proposed wastewater treatment facility to the eastern seaboard after receiving a lucrative offer from the Queensland Government.
FUND managers believe universities are too focused on basic research and do not have a strong commercial outlook. For their part the universities say that a failure to back pure research stifles ‘chance’ commercially viable opportunities.
TWO of Western Australia’s most influential hospitality men, Stephen Scaffidi and Geoff Hayward, have joined forces and are embarking on two substantial developments – a bar at QV1 and the redevelopment of the Brisbane Hotel.
WA does not have an innovation strategy and, according to TechStart Australia venture manager Marcus Christian, WA is the only State in Australia besides Tasmania without a biotechnology strategy.
