Mark Beyer

Global conglomerate GE has signalled an innovative pathway for training and industry development in Western Australia with the opening of a $100 million complex at Jandakot.

Five years of WA salary surveys show some chief executives appear to be remarkably well paid relative to the size of their business and the returns they have delivered, while others offer great value for money.

Remuneration reports are deeply flawed but with some redesign could deliver much more useful information to shareholders.

THIS year’s salary survey shows that it’s not just the chief executives at the top end of town who have mouth-watering incomes.

Changes to Wesfarmers’ remuneration policies have shone a bright light on the company’s results.

Five years of WA salary surveys show some chief executives appear to be remarkably well paid relative to the size of their business and the returns they have delivered, while others offer great value for money.

THREE trends stand out when the salary packages of newly appointed chief executives at Western Australian companies are examined.First,the bigger the company the higher the salary.

Executive remuneration is a hot political issue but the controversy does not seem to have slowed growth in pay packets at WA companies.

FOUR major resource and infrastructure projects have reached notable milestones this week, signalling the positive outlook for the Western Australian economy.

Facing up to shareholders at annual meetings, and the two-strikes policy on remuneration reports, are both confronting for company directors, but so far this year they have delivered benefits.

Brian Grimmer has bounced back since the fallout of the GFC.

Advanced Braking Technology chief executive Ken Johnsen has secured the largest grant of any company in Australia.

Peter Beattie, who is guiding the federal government’s push to help local industry win more work on major projects, says he detects a change of mindset among resources companies.

The controversy over director independence at Mount Gibson Iron has taken another surprise twist, with a majority of the board resolving that one of its existing members should be reclassified as i

Japan's Inpex Corporation has announced that a final investment decision on its Ichthys liquefied natural gas (LNG) project may be delayed until January.

Automotive Holdings Group has become the third Perth-based company to record a large protest vote by shareholders against its remuneration report, potentially leading to a board spill next year.

One day after being praised by chairman Geoff Hill at the company’s annual meeting, iron ore miner Mount Gibson Iron has announced that managing director Luke Tonkin will step down from the role.

Mount Gibson Iron has announced the appointment of two new directors as the company’s board grapples with a continuing rift over the independence of its chairman Geoff Hill.

The flexibility that skilled migration delivers to the labour market is often overlooked in the debate over solutions to the skills shortage.

ONE of the Barnett government’s top infrastructure priorities is starting to come to fruition, with the release of agricultural land in the Ord River irrigation area, near Kununurra in the state’s

Two major port developments in the Pilbara have moved closer to commencement, while the Oakajee port in the Mid West continues to languish.

The incumbent directors of scooter manufacturer Vmoto have retained their board positions after narrowly surviving a challenge from a group of disgruntled investors.

Wesfarmers shareholders have delivered a mild rebuke to their board of directors, delivering a protest vote against a new share options scheme but supporting the company’s remuneration report.

The planned Minerals Resource Rent Tax has generated a lot of heated debate but remarkably little sensible analysis.

THERE is a new reality in banking that businesses need to understand.“The banks are definitely open for business, but they are being more diligent.”

Lending to business almost dried up during the GFC, but the banks, big and small, are starting to talk to their clients again.

With industry connections that would be the envy of any university, the Australian Institute of Management Western Australia has become a large and commercially successful business.

WHAT makes a group of venture capital investors from California travel halfway around the globe to a mining town in their search for technology opportunities?

Privately-owned engineering and contracting company Calibre Global has announced its fifth acquisiton in the past two years, with the purchase of Melbourne-based infrastructure servi

Accounting firm BDO has released updated modelling on the impact of the Minerals Resource Rent Tax (MRRT) which it said confirms that smaller miners will pay a higher rate of tax than the country’s

Perth has hosted many international visitors over the past couple of weeks, and not all of them were here for CHOGM.

Eva Skira says a career as a professional director does not suit everyone, but it has worked well for her since she moved to Perth nearly 20 years ago.