As Senior Editor at Business News, Mark Beyer has a wide-ranging brief to research, analyse and report on the issues, trends and personalities affecting the business community in Western Australia.
Mr Beyer has 35 years' career experience, primarily in business journalism. He joined Business News in 2002 and previously worked for The Australian Financial Review and The West Australian, and also has public relations and corporate affairs experience.
Before becoming a journalist, he was an economist with the Commonwealth Treasury in Canberra.
FAST-GROWING towns in the Pilbara have continued to deliver new opportunities for local construction companies, with Pindan and Gavin Construction among the latest winners.
THE federal government has announced extra funding for the Industry Capability Network to help Australian businesses win supply contracts on major resources projects such as the Browse LNG developm
Stockbroking firm Hartleys has joined most of its industry peers in recording a bumper profit increase for the year to June 2011, a result that is unlikely to be matched in the current financial ye
The federal government has announced extra funding for the Industry Capability Network, to help Australian businesses win supply contracts on major resources projects such as the Browse LNG develop
The number of Western Australian university students graduating with mining industry qualifications is set to jump this year to 450 but the rapid increase is bringing with it some problems.
Kagara Mining has taken the unusual step of writing to the ASX to explain why it did not obtain shareholder approval for shares and options issued to new managing director Geoff Day.
Scottish company Global Energy Group (GEG) has moved into the Australian market by acquiring a majority shareholding in West Perth-based Global Resources Network – GRN Australasia Pty Ltd in a deal
The federal government has established a manufacturing industry taskforce that includes seven politicians, six unionists, two academics and one business lobbyist along with six industry executives.
The Barnett government is living up to its promise to deliver more community infrastructure via public private partnerships, naming three short-listed consortiums to bid for a 350-bed prison develo
Privately owned Bethesda Hospital in Claremont, chaired by former health department boss Neale Fong, has approached the state government to assist with a financing package to buy back its land and
Mount Gibson Iron has agreed to settle a long-running US$114 million dispute with a Chinese steel mill, by signing two off-take agreements that will result in the partial recovery of the money it i
The outcome of last week’s jobs forum in Canberra was sensible, incremental reform, but don’t expect the policy change to have a big impact on local industry.
Engineering and contracting group Downer EDI has recruited John Sheridan as Chief Operating Officer, Downer Australia West, following an internal restructuring.
IT consulting company CSG, which has substantial operations in Perth, said today it has received additional takeover approaches after an indicative $340 million offer from an unnamed bidder la
GR Engineering Services has been awarded two gold industry contracts, and expects a third to follow, bringing total revenue into the business of about $55 million.
Engineering company WorleyParsons has won a contract for construction management services on the onshore component of the Wheatstone liquefied natural gas (LNG) project.
The federal government has announced two initiatives designed to prompt major project developers and state governments to offer more opportunities to local industry in their purchasing decisions.
Liquor regulations have been liberalised for the Perth 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships later this year, though the changes will only apply to 14 restaurants in Fremantle.
The state government has formally commenced planning for a new gas pipeline between Bunbury and Albany, as negotiations continue with Grange Resources, whose Southdown iron ore project will be critica
The Australian Securities Exchange is evaluating stricter rules for the disclosure of reserves and resources by listed mining and oil & gas companies, in order to align Australian standards wit
FROM the Pilbara to Ghana, to Norway and North America, the views of participants in the WA Business News boardroom forum reflect those of the hundreds of listed companies in the junior mi
‘BORROWER beware’ is the advice from experienced mining and finance industry professionals wary about a surge in the number of non-traditional lenders moving into Australia.