WITH increasing deregulation in the agricultural industry, farmers are starting to take a greater role in the marketing of their produce through cooperatives and alliances.
INDUSTRIAL Relations Minister John Kobelke has reneged on a promise to release details of Labor’s proposed rewriting of WA’s industrial relations legislation.
THE little things can often prove to be a winning, competitive advantage for a small business.Small businesses are constrained by their size in their ability to advertise and to compete on price against bigger competitors.
MOST manufacturers and food producers agree that one of the hardest things in their business is getting products onto supermarket shelves.One group of beverage producers have found a way around the problem, however.
A REVIEW of the controversial by-laws governing activities at the Perth Markets in Canning Vale has been completed – and now a review of the Perth Market Act of 1926 begins.
INVESTORS who bought into tax effective schemes with Australian Tax Office product rulings risk being left with the loan liability for their investment if the scheme manager goes broke.
WINNING the $2.5 billion refit contract for Australia’s Collins Class submarines would be a boon for more than just the major defence contractors such as Tenix, Rayth-eon, Transfield and United Construction.
WILL the Mandurah to Perth rail line down the Kwinana Freeway be a blight on the Swan River foreshore or a boon for the cities of Rockingham and Mandurah?
SMALL businesses fear another “kick in the guts” from the WA Government over the Minimum Conditions of Employment Act, which is expected to come into effect later this year.
AFTER years of working as an audio visual consultant in South-East Asia, and wanting to do things better, Phillip Jenkins decided to form a technology company.
MORE bank branches are due to close around the Perth metropolitan area in the coming six weeks.Financial Services Union assistant secretary Paul Schroder said he was aware of at least six retail branches that would close in the next six weeks.
FROM humble beginnings 25 years ago as a joint venture between Ray Godley and the University of WA, data logging equipment maker Unidata has become a multinational.
A MINOR court action between two small players in the telecommunications industry has revealed the business of laying cable beneath the streets of Perth is as complicated as the labyrinths created by the work.
BY under promising and over delivering, a small business has won the ‘WA Microbusiness of the Year award for businesses with up to five employees’ at its first try.
THE Federal Government’s decision to allow contractors to self-assess whether they are alienating personal services income could open them up to large retrospective tax bills.The Government’s decision is yet to be ratified by the Senate.
