Noel Dyson

A 25 year career in the information technology industry has won AlphaWest network services manager Sharon Brown the Telstra Western Australian Business Woman of the Year Award.

ARCHITECTURAL design for a $1 million-plus tourism and community fac-ility in Northcliffe will commence soon.

GAMBLING businesses took more than $11,000 million in 1997-98, according to figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, representing an increase of 42 per cent since 1994-95.

WA’s meetings and exhibitions sector is worth more than $700 million annually to the state economy, the Bur-eau of Tourism Re-search has found.

TWO Perth companies have developed a computer program to help builders and their clients visualise what the finished product will look like.

MOVES are underway to stage the first International Wine Tourism Confer-ence and Expo in Margaret River in 2001.

WA LIQUOR sellers have hit back at the latest attempt by petrol station owners to gain liquor licences.

MORE than $18 million will be invested on new projects this year on behalf of WA grain growers in the western region of the Grains Research and Development Corporation.

WA’S small business sector is still leading the nation in its confidence about the next twelve months, the latest Small Business Index has found.

A STRONG financial incentive is needed to help families act green when building a new home, says Solar Edwards general manager Vaughan Boultwood.

OVERCOMING GST-posed problems has been made easier by A1 Advanced Office Systems systems development consultant Jenny John.

THE Belmont Local Chambers Awards has demonstrated the diversity of commercial and industrial activity in the area.BJC Enterprises won the Business of the Year Award.

AD AGENCY 303 Advertising has won the account of the WA Tourism Commission for the next three years from 1 July.

CLEANING computers regularly can improve their resale value, reduce maintenance costs and keep employees healthy, says Mobile Computer Cleaners franchisee Graham Bathols.

Sponsorship is slowly becoming an integral element of a company’s marketing profile.

DEREGULATION looms as a major threat to the legal profession, says Law Society of WA president John Ley.

AFTER WA’s December quarter economic slump, experts agree the recovery is coming. They just cannot agree on when.

THE LOOSE Box Restaurant in Mundaring has been awarded Best Restaurant in WA at the 14th annual American Express WA Restaurant Awards held recently at Rendezvous Observ-ation City Hotel.

A new four-star accommodation property situated eight minutes from the centre of Bunbury opened on1 July.

WA AGRIBUSINESS Rural Traders Com-pany will merge with Peters & Brownes Foods Limited. The deal involves a $20 million transaction to be paid by the issue of 17.9 million shares in RTC Agribusiness and a payment of about $2.5 million cash.

TOP executives are paid too much, a recent survey has found.The Monster.com.au survey found 47 per cent of 1,183 respondents believed executives were overpaid.

THE Australian Securities and Investments Commis-sion’s implementation of the Managed Investments Act has been judged favourably by the managed investments industry.

THE South West’s latest tourist attraction, The Margaret River Chocolate Company, is now open for business.

WA TOURISTS in Bali are being pressured into buying timeshare property worth thousands of dollars, says Commissioner for Fair Trading Patrick Walker.

THE Association of Mining and Exploration Companies believes it has found a solution to the unemployment crisis facing geoscientists.

THE much heralded Old Swan Brewery redevelopment is in danger of becoming another block of flats – with a service station attached.

IT IS hoped to foster stronger relations between business and academia when Curtin Business School hosts the inaugural Business Education and Research conference on 14 and 15 October.

AN INVESTMENT of $800,000 by the WA Government has netted $3.4 million from the Fisheries Research Development Corpora-tion for thirteen fisheries’ research projects.

EMPLOYERS and employees could soon be negotiating their own workers’ compensation packages if a new proposal is accepted.

SHOPPING centres face the threat of major legal payouts to crime victims because they have been miserly with security, a WA security firm warns.

DESPITE the recent Asian financial crisis the Asian consumer is alive and well. Asia’s halcyon days prior to the crisis have left Asians with a taste for consumer goods.

WA PETROL station owners say rules preventing them from selling liquor are at odds with the National Competition Policy.