Natalie Gerritsen

Privately-owned telecommunication services firm ASTIB Group has been sold to Singapore-based CSE Global in a deal worth up to $49.6 million.

DP World, which is one of two major stevedoring companies operating in the port of Fremantle, has sold a 75 per cent stake in its Australian business to investment group Citi infrastructure Investments.

Company director Paul Letari's family venture Toscana will take a majority share in struggling olive oil producer Frankland River Olive Company to help it recapitalise.

Aquila Resources has lived up to its own prediction by announcing conditional approval for its West Pilbara iron ore project in order to block its joint venture partner buying the project out from under it.

An investment firm led by Water Corporation chairman Patrick O'Connor is getting into the coal game, acquiring Africa-centred Focus Coal Investments.

Local listed litigation funder Hillcrest Litigation Services will fund the continued investigation of collapsed agribusiness Great Southern.

Industry groups have cautiously welcomed a report on implementation of the federal government's proposed mining tax, but Premier Colin Barnett remains dissatisfied.

Besieged Burrup Fertilisers chairman Pankaj Oswal has emerged after the appointment of receivers to the company, saying he welcomes the proposed sale of the business and that he has been trying to sell his shares in parent company Burrup Holdings all year

The country's top investment watchdog has released statistic showing that small businesses are the most frequent victims of insolvency.

A one-time labour recruitment company chaired by Lyndon Rowe is being used by Wizard Home Loans founder Mark Bouris for a back-door listing of his new venture on the Australian Securities Exchange.

It was a case of good news, bad news and some interesting news yesterday for one of Western Australia's most successful companies, iron ore and coal miner Aquila Resources.

Former premier Richard Court will chair the Iron Ore Holdings board from next year, the company has announced today.

Specialist equipment hire company Statewide Equipment Hire has been acquired by national operator Onsite Rental Group in a deal worth $70 million.

Newly-appointed State Treasurer Christian Porter today announced a small downward revision in Western Australia's economic growth rate and a large upward revision in the expected budget surplus, but warned WA that the good times would not last forever.

Perth-based mining services company Imdex has enjoyed a jump in its share price after announcing the acquisition of German drilling fluids supplier Mud-Data for Euro 3.5 million.

Education provider Navitas has welcomed the federal government's announced review of the student visa program, saying it will be a crucial step forward in revitalising the international education industry.

Consumer Protection has commenced legal action in the Supreme Court against the secretary of the Fremantle RSL club, alleging he illegally acquired the club's property.

The state’s new top innovation and technology advisor opens up about what makes him tick.

WESTERN Australia’s insolvency sector has some bad news for struggling areas of the state’s economy – expect more of the same next year.

The newest venture from WA food doyenne Kate Lamont offers a quiet hideaway in the heart of Perth’s CBD. Natalie Gerritsen reports.

THE Western Australian state government’s newly appointed top advisor on industry and technology has identified four sectors he believes the state must target.

After years of talking and planning, construction is set to start on a $500 million development at Perth Airport.

Small airlines and larger carriers are at loggerheads over the state government’s proposed changes to the regulation of regional aviation in WA. Natalie Gerritsen reports.

FEDERAL government changes to the sensitive areas of student visas and skilled migration have aroused concern among some affected industry groups that things could actually be made worse.

PREMIER Colin Barnett has continued to contrast himself with Prime Minister Julia Gillard, trumping her two-year vision by offering his view on what he believes will be Western Australia’s defining decade.

CONDOR Tower on St Georges Terrace has been awarded the major honour – the Sir William Hudson Award for engineering excellence – at the Australian Engineering Excellence Awards held last week.

PERTH-BASED workplace safety business IFAP has opened Australia’s first freefall lifeboat training facility, aimed at servicing the needs of the offshore oil and gas industry.

FOR a business that is five years old and has only five staff, Metro Power Company is punching well above its weight in terms of its clientele.

STEPHEN Cole still remembers the moment he decided his future lay in electronic books – it was January 1 1997, and Mr Cole thought he would become a billionaire in six months.

As WA continues its resources-led economic recovery, businesses are searching for solutions to the encroaching skills shortage.

DANIEL Stean started at floral import export company WAFEX 10 years ago, sweeping the factory floor; now he is the general manager of the company’s Perth warehouse, overseeing 40 staff.

Community organisation Green Skills has won the overall award at the WA Environment Awards.