WA’S biggest industrial company, Wesfarmers, has won more than 90 per cent of takeover target Howard Smith and will move to compulsorily acquire the remainder.
PERTH commercial builder Brown & Joy Industries was put into liquidation last week owing creditors about $3 million. Expressions of interest in the firm were called last month but no buyer came forward.
THE Subiaco Wine Room has sold to the owners of its neighbour, icon establishment the Subiaco Hotel.The deal was signed late last week and still has to make its way through liquor licensing authorities and the Subiaco Council.
WHILE a typographical error by the catering institute refers to him as God Gorey, the defending chef of the year has been beaten by a young talent – a feat deemed by many in the industry as miraculous.
A PERTH company is hoping to revolutionise digital camera technology after spending six years and $1 million developing an electronic filter that overcomes one of the most common problems for photographers.
JOCK Clough was keen to hose down talk he was planning a return to HP-JDV just a few months after leaving an investment banking position at the firm, to become an executive at Clough, the listed engineering company founded by his family.
THE WA Government has gone out on the hustings in the Mid West during the special sitting of State Cabinet in Geraldton, handing out $89.96 million of goodies to the area.
MICHAEL Shanahan has been appointed manager in KPMG’s new forensic accounting department.He will be a part of the KPMG team aiming to help clients beat corporate fraud, which cost business $239 million between 1997 and1999.
HOPING to win at its first attempt at this year’s cook off of the year – The Event, as it is called – is Oceanus, which is aiming to shake defending champion Gershwin’s hold on the title at the Hyatt.
AUSTRALIAN optic fibre-based telecommunications carrier Amcom Telecommunications Limited has announced that half-year carrier revenues in the local loop were up about 43 per cent over the December 2000 half.
VOTERS were left wondering whether tax cuts were on the Federal Government’s agenda in the lead up to the federal election, with John Howard and Peter Costello’s on-again off-again commitment to offer further tax cuts.
OPPORTUNISTIC is a word Michael Chaney is only momentarily comfortable with as a description for his sprawling conglomerate, Wesfarmers. After consulting with media adviser Keith Kessell, a more refined term is found.
IT has been a year since Heinrich Chok bought the popular Barrack St Jetty restaurant, Moorings Cafe and, while it has been hard work for him and his wife, he says he thoroughly enjoys it and is looking to make many more changes.
THE former chief executive officer of the Department of Local Government has been appointed as chairman of the Western Australian Local Government Grants Commission.
IN its fourth quarter report, Tap Oil has announced a 30 per cent increase in liquids production and an 11 per cent increase in gas sales from the previous quarter.
IT’S understood Marketforce joint creative directors Adam Barker and Lori Canalini are setting up their own agency, leaving Perth’s biggest advertising agency scanning the horizon for a new director.
STRUGGLING farmers in drought-affected parts of the WA wheatbelt have been given some reason to smile with heavy falls this week ending a record dry spell.
BAD News for Aurora Gold Ltd’s shareholders after a bankable feasibility study into the Papua New Guinea Morobe project showed the risks were too high to provide an adequate return for investors, based on an assumed $500 per ounce gold price.
PERTH-LISTED engineering and construction company Clough Engineering has teamed up with a leading US contractor for the US Land Warrior program, Exponent Inc, to tender on a US defence contract to equip soldiers with modern computer,
A JOINT project between several agencies has been launched to provide better information about the natural hazards that pose a risk to the Perth community.T
EXPERIENCED caterer Sam Satterthwaite is poised to launch three new hospitality companies early next month in a bid to service the competitive corporate catering market.
EVEN though it is a more direct route, the proposed rail line from Mandurah to Perth will cost more than the previous Government’s southern rail proposal via Kenwick.
EMPLOYEES who reach for the sky and have formidable drive and motivation are hard to come by, but Knight Frank has been lucky enough to recapture the services of mountaineer Tim Robathan, who returns to the firm after leaving to climb Mount Everest.
Andrew Forrest, Anaconda Nickel; Harold Clough, Clough Limited; Stan Perron, Perron Investments Pty Ltd; Maurice Brockwell, Western Plaza Hotel Corporation.
AUSTRALIAN construction and engineering company Thiess Pty Ltd has been awarded a $20 million civil construction contract for the fourth Liquefied Natural Gas train on the Burrup Peninsula in the Pilbara.
