COMPANIES involved in the recruitment service industry are restructuring their operations to stay ahead of the opposition in a highly competitive market, according to TMP Worldwide practice manager Scott Stacey.
JUST 29 per cent of companies listed on the Western Australian Stock Exchange have recorded an operating profit at the end of the 2000/2001 financial year, according to research compiled for the Business News Book of Company Lists 2002.
MANY marketing companies in WA have had to develop more comprehensive, broad-based services to meet the strategic planning and creative needs of their clients, according to Braincells Creative Marketing chief executive officer Allen Burtenshaw.
WHILE the role of industry based and service-oriented associations has not discernibly changed in the past decade, there has been a marked increase in the range of services and benefits provided for members of these associations.
INSURANCE premiums for businesses may rise by between 20 and 25 per cent over the next year as insurance companies set about recouping heavy losses incurred during 2001, according to Banks and Cooper Countrywide Insurance Brokers
BRINGING potential clients up to speed on the benefits and applications of the Internet and web sites is a major challenge for the State’s web development industry.
RETAILERS are looking forward to a record-breaking Christmas shopping season following a difficult 18-month period during which businesses have endured the
A LACK of investment in the State’s mining and resources sector and a slowing of public sector infrastructure developments are the most significant factors contributing to the tough business climate being experienced by
A COOPERATIVE approach is essential to counter underfunding and deficiencies in the current aged care system, and to meet the challenges of future aged care provision, according to Swan Village of Care chief executive officer Bill Marshall.
THE combination of the global economic downturn and the weak Australian dollar has led some of WA’s largest antique stores to diversifying their business into overseas markets.
CHALLENGING times lie ahead for the printing industry in WA, according to Paul Neiuhoff, WA regional co-ordinator for the Printing Industries Association of Australia.
THE Western Australian wine industry is united in its commitment to change the current tax system as it relates to wine, according to president of the Wine Industry Association of WA and founder of Leeuwin Estate Winery, Denis Horgan.
PUBLIC relations consultancies are often regarded as performing a crisis management role, preparing media releases or co-ordinating launches and functions.
WASTE management has become a topical issue of late, with a fire earlier this year at a hazardous waste disposal facility in Bellevue focusing government and community attention squarely on all areas of waste disposal and waste management.
THE Perth office of architectural firm Woods Bagot has beaten a field of international architects in the master plan design competition for United Arab Emirates University’s (UAEU) Maqam campus at Al Ain.
AUSTRALIA’S broadband Internet content providers are being encouraged to use the recently established Western Australian Internet Exchange (WAIE) as an alternative network through which they can provide low priced broadband Internet content to ADSL
A MAJOR shake up is due to hit Australia’s financial services industry with the Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB) tipped to become law on October 1.
