Mark Beyer

STIRLING Products is the latest Perth company to enter the animal health market, but so far it is better known for boardroom turmoil than any scientific and commercial achievements.

PHARMACEUTICAL company Imugene has become a direct competitor to Chemeq after licensing a new technology developed at the University of Adelaide.

THE boom in mining and construction projects across Western Australia has led to dramatic salary increases for engineers, a survey by recruitment company Ambit Group has found.

SURPRISINGLY, Perth is home to not one but three Australian Stock Exchange-listed companies developing animal health products to replace the use of antibiotics.

CHEMEQ is expected to ask shareholders for another capital injection this year after being squeezed by rapidly rising costs and delayed sales.

The past year has been a tough stretch for Chemeq shareholders, but executive chairman Graham Melrose is adamant the company is on the right track. Mark Beyer reports.

WHEN Publishing and Broadcasting Limited announced its $686 million offer for Burswood late last month, it was already sitting on a strategic 15.75 per cent shareholding.

ERNST & Young Australia is poised to become the third Australian organisation to be a nominated adviser (NOMAD) for the London Stock

THE buoyant state of the global mining industry has provided more good news for Perth-based company GRD, which has picked up several major new contracts.

VICTIMS of fraud can expect to recover less than 10 per cent of their losses, even where the perpetrators are caught and convicted, a national study has found.

PERTH investor Barry Patterson looks set to make a clean and profitable exit from his rescue of office supplies company National 1 after French firm Lyreco announced a 14-cents-pe

ACCOUNTING firm PKF has bolstered its tax consulting practice by recruiting Craig Melville from PricewaterhouseCoopers.

TWELVE years after co-founding boutique corporate law firm Blakiston & Crabb, Rick Crabb is retiring from the partnership.

A STRONG economy, a buoyant property market and booming mineral production have helped the State Government combine increased spending with prudent financial management.

TWO small Perth companies, Regenera and Plexus International, are giving investors something new to ponder by including performance shares in their planned capital raisings.

THE Federal Budget has been labelled a political rather than an economic document that sets the Howard Government up for the upcoming election, likely to be held in the next few months.

A REPORT into February's power supply crisis has provided a timely reminder about the importance of both forward planning and crisis management plans.

THE policies implemented by the State Government are the culmination of a complex process that filters input from multiple sources. Political advisers, lobbyists, factional power brokers and public servants can all affect the final outcome.

THE increasingly globalised nature of Western Australia's economy is highlighted by the resource companies driving increased investment in the State.

A RESEARCH report highlighting rapid growth in State tax collections over the past decade has set the scene for the release this week of the State Budget.

PROPERTY has provided the path to wealth and influence for many noteworthy Western Australians.

In WA Business News' annual feature on the State's most influential people, Mark Beyer explains why people such as Neil Hamilton, Tony Howarth, John Langoulant, Geoff Gallop and Jim McGinty are the real 'movers and shakers'.

PAUL Armstrong, the youthful and energetic new editor of The West Australian, has been ranked as the most influential person in the Western Australian media.

ANALYSING the most influential opposition MPs in State Parliament presents an unusual challenge.

THE 2003 Australian of the Year, Fiona Stanley, has been ranked as the most influential Western Australian in the field of science and technology.

STOCKBROKING analysts have released widely divergent valuations of casino and resort operator Burswood following last week's $686 million takeover offer from Kerry Packer's Publishi

THE chief executives of Western Australia's major industrial companies are automatically placed in a position of influence, both for the decisions they make about their own company and for the leadership role they can exercise on wider business issues.

LEATHER and the Liberal Party may not have much in common, but Danielle Blain is aiming to become an expert in marketing both.

IF there is one businessperson in Perth who stands out for their rapid rise to prominence over the past year it is Neil Hamilton.

THE Federal politicians judged to be most influential are those who both exercise power in their respective parties in Western Australia, and hold positions of some authority in Canberra.

THE listed biotechnology sector has sprung to life with Perth-based companies planning to raise more than $40 million from investors in Australia and overseas.

THE staff at Total Corrosion Control have taken an unusually assertive role in challenging plans for a back-door listing of the Kwinana-based company on the Australian Stock Exchang