Noel Dyson

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.

BGC received three high commendations in the recent Master Builders' Excellence in Construction Awards.

A BUNBURY District Police plan to reduce crime against local businesses and improve information flow between business and police is to become a statewide program.

MINISTRY for Culture & the Arts director general Ricky Burges has assured the Perth City Council the Perth Theatre Trust did exist.

AD AGENCY JDA has won the first Lion to be awarded to a WA agency at the 1999 Cannes International Advertising Awards. The Keep Australia Beautiful Coun-cil commercial, featuring the devastating effect litter has on wildlife, won a bronze Lion.

AUSTRALIA'S first hands-on management training program for franchised new motor vehicle dealers and their staff has been launched by the Chamber of Automotive Industries of WA.

THE Westralia Airports Corporation is providing $5 million to help develop WA's economy.

MOVES to abolish the Town Planning Appeals Tribunal has the legal fraternity concerned.

THE Australian Tax Office has disallowed more than $6 billion in losses claimed over the past three years by a variety of entities – some owned by wealthy individuals.

MARKETFORCE and JDA have dominated the winners list in this year's Perth Art Directors' Club Awards.

REPRESENTATIVES of the shires of Bridgetown/Greenbushes, Manjimup and Nannup claim the National Party is “betraying” the communities they represent.

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

EDUCATION will help stamp out price exploitation when the GST comes in, says Australian Competition and Con-sumer Commission chairman Allan Fels.

COUNCIL has balked at leasing its Perth Concert Hall for five years because it is not sure the prospective lessee actually exists.

Crustaceans are abundant in the oceans off the WA coast, and live happily in the state's rivers and dams. But when the owners of a traditional wheat and sheep farming property started marketing yabbies, it raised a few eyebrows.

COUNCIL has forgone $2 million to keep the public open space at Arden Street in East Perth.

THE omission of a safety net clause for contracts spanning 1 July 2000 in the GST legislation could cost WA small businesses nearly $6 million says the Institute of Chartered Accountants Small Business Committee's Ian Costley.

TRAINING to improve safety on offshore gas and oil rigs is crucial to the industry's prosperity, says Employment and Training Minister Graham Kierath.