Staff Reporters

OF ALL the Japanese manufacturers, Nissan has the finest track record of delivering specialist sports cars. The new 200SX (pictured) remains true to its heritage while featuring state of the art style and technology.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics “experimental” annual estimates of States’ real Gross State Product (GSP) show that WA’s economic growth for the year was 4.6 per cent, a little above the national average (4.3 per cent).

THE Australian Small Industrials market was down approximately 2% over the week, with the market remaining directionless given the ongoing NASDAQ volatility.

It is important for the ACCC to achieve a balance between natural gas pipeline owners receiving a fair return that will encourage new investment in the industry and ensuring the cost of the gas is not prohibitive

WA’S technology players are experiencing the fallout from April’s crash as shareholders used the annual meeting season to take retribution or at least extract concessions from directors.

* SHERATON Perth has won the Best Five-star Accommodation and Best Conference and Banquet Service Facility awards at the Australian Hotels Association WA awards.

CHANNEL Nine has launched a new series called Fishing Western Australia which it has created to fit with its cricket telecasts during the summer.

DÔME Fremantle’s chef Melissa Reitsema has been named the Unilever Apprentice Pastry Chef of the Year for WA.Judges praised Melissa for her work ethic, personal skills, cleanliness presentation and passion for pastry cooking.

RULES for valuing rural properties that have more than one use or that cannot be clearly described as rural are being defined.

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This festive season is the season for stars. Your friends, family, clients and employees are the stars that have made the year 2000 so special. So how to show your appreciation?

NEW Greening Australia WA, CEO Robert Lambeck hopes to build partnerships with corporations to combat environmental concerns.

THE Shorter Group has revealed a expansion of its media buying operation, with its Media Specialists division bolstered by two former employees of market heavyweight Media Decisions.

REGIONAL small businesses with up to 10 employees can get a $200 voucher to provide staff training.

“Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made has never proved widely persuasive.”

A PLAN to extend the Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline to the Great Southern Region will not go ahead without WA Government funds.

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BIOTECHNOLOGY is the latest buzzword in the investment community and, as usual, WA companies have leapt onto the bandwagon with gusto.

Shell has made another attempt to acquire WPL with a cheeky $14.80 cash/option offer.

GOAL clarity, keeping good staff, inspecting all parts of the operation, fixing system slippage and delighting customers will help small businesses double their profits.

FIVE years ago John Perry and Ashley Matthews bought an old dilapidated hotel 22kms out of York with a plan to restore the hotel and open a restaurant and bed and breakfast.Back then it was just an old run down hotel in the middle of nowhere.

WESFARMERS contribution to arts was formerly recognised at the 2000 State Art Sponsorship Awards on Tuesday night when they were presented with the Award for Sponsorship Vision.

Empower yourself with the world’s first WAP-enabled Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) mobile phone from Motorola – the Motorola Accompli A6188 phone.

Research into the way small business operators use their time has found time management is rarely performed well in small firms, and time management skills are often lacking.

WESTERN Australia is leading the way again in making practical use of information technology to save time and money.

In a brief biography of Sinclair Wines, Darelle Sinclair writes, “We are a micro-sized winery with big aspirations and a non-existent advertising budget. In order to introduce our product to the market place we have kept our margins tiny.

PROMINENT UK business whiz, author and broadcaster, David Hall, will run a series of business development seminars next week (November 27-30).

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has obtained, by consent orders, a Federal Court declaration that A Whistle and Co (1979) Pty Ltd, trading as Electrodry Carpet Dry Cleaning, breached the Trade Practices Act 1974 by distributing brochure

I WRITE to comment on your article Towns want share of park, November 9, 2000.

THIS is our beautiful lilac season where splashes of the exotic colour burst over the suburbs high in the jacaranda trees blossoming their seasonal hue.Down below at about knee-height is the grey/lilac of the wonderful lavender bush.

RABBIT is not often found on restaurant menus these days where the grey, bush bunny is thankfully out of fashion. When bunny does appear, it is cultivated and is a far better eating than the big-eared beast from the bush.

MORE than four months after the introduction of the GST it is clear that the majority of Australian businesses have complied with the GST pricing requirements.