Mark Beyer

Mining giant Rio Tinto has published a book that provides an unusually frank insight into the impact of the mining industry on the people of the Pilbara region.

Perth company Coretrack Ltd has launched a public share offer to raise just more than $2.2 million to support the development of a new technology designed to improve the efficiency of oil and gas exploration.

Printing franchise Worldwide Online Printing is aiming to double the size of the business over the next five years after a period of consolidation and a change of ownership.

India's Oswal Group Ltd, which developed the $630 million Burrup Fertilisers project, in the Pilbara's Burrup Peninsula has selcted Papua New Guinea as the site for its next ammonia/urea plant.

Perth company Mundo Minerals has announced plans for a $20 million initial public offering and in the process may have set a new benchmark for gold exploration floats.

Newly-appointed Clinical Cell Culture chief executive Bob Atwill believes the company’s more focused sales and marketing approach will ultimately reap benefits for long-suffering shareholders.

The positive state of the Western Australian economy has been highlighted by a flurry of private business sales in the past month valued at more than $100 million.

The new financial year has triggered a series of changes at the top of Perth’s big law firms with senior partners leaving MinterEllison, Clayton Utz and Freehills.

Advance Healthcare Group is planning a clean sweep of its board of directors and a change of name to that of its major subsidiary, pharmaceutical wholesaler Cottman Medical Products Group.

Newly established gold exploration company Mundo Minerals Ltd is planning one of the biggest gold floats seen recently on the Australian Stock Exchange.

Listed technology company Advanced Ocular Systems Ltd (formerly Regenera Ltd) will close its Boston headquarters and has announced the resignation of its US based chief executive Kenneth Taylor following a review of costs.

The family owners of Willeton company Monarch Pool Systems have reaped a $30 million reward by agreeing to sell the business to listed Melbourne company GUD Holdings.

West Perth-based company Imdex Ltd has taken another major step in its strategy to become a major global player in the drilling products and services market by entering into a $17 million agreement to acquire UK-based Chardec Consultants Ltd.

The state government is likely to throw open the development of new port and rail infrastructure in the Mid-West region to a public tender in response to apparent divisions between members of the Geraldton Iron Ore Alliance.

Scaffolding and form-work supplier PCH Group expects to report its fourth consecutive record profit this year as it benefits from the global resources boom. But that hasn’t stopped investors from hammering its share price.

The state government is likely to throw open the development of new port and rail infrastructure in the Mid-West region to a public tender in response to apparent divisions between members of the Geraldton Iron Ore Alliance.

West Perth company Eastland Medical Systems achieved a major milestone this month with its first substantial export order confirmed for its ClipOn hypodermic needle.

Advance Healthcare Group has flagged the possibility of further capital raisings after announcing its second successive multi-million dollar loss.

Melbourne IT company Azurn International has appointed two Perth firms, corporate adviser Azure Capital and Montagu Stockbrokers, to guide it through its second attempt at a stock market float.

Gold miner Croesus Mining NL has shocked the market by announcing that it has gone into administration, despite the appointment of a new board led by Michael Kiernan and substantial progress with restructuring its business.

Claremont based healthcare company Resonance Health Ltd today announced a deeply discounted $3.06 million entitlements offer at two cents per share to fund further development of FibroScreen, a non-invasive liver fibrosis test.

Aspiring iron ore miner Murchison Metals has finalised a consortium of four companies to study the potential $1.6 billion development of rail and port infrastructure in the state's Mid West region.

Private equity investors Archer Capital and Pacific Equity Partners are aiming to double their money after West Perth-based earthmoving equipment supplier Emeco Holdings Ltd launched its Initial Public Offering to raise $1.1 billion.

The editor of Perth’s only daily newspaper, The West Australian, is one of the most influential people in the state.

What is the common link between metalworkers’ union boss Jock Ferguson, Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive John Langoulant and recent BHP Billiton recruit Ian Fletcher?

The University of Western Australia’s Business School board ranks as the bluest of blue chip boards in Perth.

The big changes at the top of the state government over the past six months have put the new premier, Alan Carpenter, firmly at the head of WA Business News’ fifth annual ‘Most Influential’ survey.

Most company directors would consider joining the board of global mining giant BHP Billiton the peak of their career, but for Michael Chaney it was a mere stepping stone.

Loyal Fremantle Dockers supporters will know that Premier Alan Carpenter is an avid fan but they probably don’t realise he is regularly accompanied to games by his chief of staff, Rita Saffioti, and his principal media adviser, Guy Houston.

Western Australia’s highest paid public servant, health supremo Neale Fong, has suffered the kind of year most people would like to forget.

Two of the most significant figures in Western Australia’s property and construction industry, Multiplex founder John Roberts and Wyllie Group chairman Bill Wyllie, died during the past year.

The momentous changes inside the Labor state government over the past six months have left Premier Alan Carpenter in a stronger position than his predecessor Geoff Gallop ever enjoyed.