Staff Reporters

Have you bought a gym membership of late? If you haven’t, start jogging, because this year’s Easter promises to be the most calorie-filled yet.

Derivatives is an industry that has enjoyed growth because of the expansion of the global and new technologies markets and Perth-based stockbroking firm, Paterson Ord Minnett, has established a dedicated department to tap into this lucrative market.

AUTUMN is upon us and a new season of festivals is on its way to welcome the winds.

AS Mir came crashing to the earth on Friday afternoon the Australian dollar seemed to pick up on its trajectory and plummeted to an all time low of 48.86 cents against the US dollar earlier this week.

THE BT Funds Management group is one of the largest funds management teams in Australia.In that capacity it is often cited as having a keen understanding of the markets here and in the rest of the world.

THE great thing about jazz is its ability to create a stylish yet relaxed atmosphere.

PROPERTY finance group Ashe Morgan Winthrop (AMW) has appointed Jeff Cohenca to head its Western Australian division.

DID someone say noodles? Well there are oodles of noodles to be had with a string of new noodle houses opening, offering not just affordable cuisine but in classy fashion.

ENGINEERING, environment and management company GHD has appointed Neil Rowlands to lead its energy division.The firm, which is already active in WA’s energy market, plans to expand its energy services worldwide.

TODAY is International Women’s Day, a day when women celebrate the achievements of their gender – including the world of commerce and industry, where women now own a significant number of Australian businesses.

HUMAN resource professionals like to think of themselves as strategic business partners, but the significance of their role appears to be lost on small to medium enterprises.

UWA PhD student Ann Tarca has been awarded one of five part-time scholarships by the Accounting Association of Australia & New Zealand (AAANZ).

THERE’S a new Indian Restaurant in town that offers traditional exotic, spicy and sensational tastes of India, and at a price that will leave you just as excited as your food.

Australia’s agribusiness export community is set to gain from the outstanding success of the Australia Day Harvest Festival which showcased the largest selection of

JERRY McGuire exemplified the importance of career management for sports professionals, however a new company, Churchill’s Executive Career Agents, has taken the role a step further acting as agents for professional senior executives.

THE annual Fig Festival is being celebrated at Ravenswood Sanctuary on the Labour Day long weekend.

WA food manufacturers are invited to export to South Pacific, Hong Kong and Canada in April.

David Griffiths has been appointed to the newly structured board of RentSmart.The WA-based company underwent private capital raising late last year, which allowed founder and managing director Ned Montarello to keep a controlling share.

REDUNDANCY has lost its emotional impact with workers learning new skills to adapt to the new workplace environment, according to the founders of a new management agency, Tasker Correy Pty Ltd.The new company, established by Bill Tasker and Rob Correy (

RESEARCH at the Graduate School of Business (GSB), Curtin University of Technology shows that using information technology to deliver academic programs is complex.

THE “healthy choice” phenomenon is continuing to grow with the recent opening of Perth’s first organic take away service, Whyz Organix.

The new Savoia café and winebar owned by controversial Perth businessman Davide Bianchi is filling the gap in West Perth’s wining and dining industry.

AUSTRALIAN wine labels are adorned with multitudes of landmarks, from creeks, valleys, rivers, paddocks and even mountains, but Yalumba have taken another option and have named their new release after a great countryman, Douglas Mawson.

JOBS, jobs and more jobs – about 20,000 of them. That’s what we can expect to see with at least 12 new building projects set to get underway this year in the Perth central business district.

WHETHER you want to know how to grow your own olives or join in the wine and food-tasting festivities, The West Australian Olive Festival will provide you with a weekend of culinary delight.

I ASKED myself, have I stumbled through a magic looking glass? I was approaching the entrance of Friends Restaurant and was greeted by a collection (or should the collective noun be a herd?) of remarkable metal statues, all life size ...

WESTERN Australian householders will be given financial incentives to choose solar hotwater systems.

THE Perth restaurant scene is undergoing some upheaval at the moment with at least two establishments favoured by the business community undergoing a change in management.

FEW would debate my theory that the Sorrento Restaurant is one of the most pleasing refurbishments of the many in the Northbridge precinct.

THE current deadlock between Mark Waugh and the Australian Cricket Board sends a timely reminder to all Western Australian sporting and community-based volunt-ary groups of the need to review their disciplinary procedures.

THE pine timber industry is set to emerge from the shadows of its young cousin, bluegum forestry, with a WA company planning to launch a range of initiatives which could eventually lead to a stock market float.

TRIED to get a plane seat in or out of Australia lately? The number of inbound passengers soared 23 per cent in December to 565,777, the highest figure ever in a single month.