Staff Reporters

THE $30 million gift delivery market has been targeted by Perth company Cake Box, the café and restaurant supply company founded by Harold Clough's daughter Sue Townsend.

DOES your business waste money and staff time ordering liquor?

WILL we survive another month without an interest rate rise.It seems absurd that we have to worry about such an event as the world apparently teeters on the edge of financial disaster week in and week out.

PERTH'S biggest advertising agency Marketforce has won a contract with national automotive accessories retailer Tyre-power, estimated to be worth around $1 million.

A LAVERTON company that has grown from two employees to 120 in just six years has won the WA Indigenous Business of the Year Award.

BARELY two years since moving to Perth, Neal Jackson has established a reputation as one of the city's premier chefs and maintained his long-term form at the Gold Plate Awards.

THE shell of failed fruit and vegetable exporter Sumich Group is being resurrected as a biotechnology hopeful, joining eight WA companies loosely representing the sector on the stock market.

WITH the festive season approaching, Christmas parties are in full swing and there are plenty of opportunities to eat, drink and be merry.

THE post-GST boom in new motor vehicle registrations is tailing off, with registrations down sharply since their July peak both in WA and nationally.

Rationalisation of the Agriculture business continued, with Wesfarmers announcing a $1.65 merger of Iama with Dalgety.

“Tabloids Losing The Readership War” (November 16 – 22) by Joe Poprzeczny failed to mention the cost to the consumer as another reason for falling circulation of The West Australian and the Sunday Times.

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.

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 huge gap between assistance provided to Australian shipbuilders compared with that enjoyed by their European competitors would be the most pressing issue facing the new chairman of the Australian Shipbuilders Association Bob McKinnon.

IN THE late 1970s Margaret Thatcher responded to criticisms of her approach to economic and social policy by claiming “There is no alternative”.

AMCOM Telecommunications start of a new high-speed telecommunications link between Adelaide and Melbourne will give regional cities along the route access to the latest voice, data and Internet services.

Let's hope cabinet listensTHANKS for your article on Derby Tidal Power.It is a concise and accurate description of this project that enjoys support from all but Colin Barnett it would seem.

PERTH-based technology group Partnershiponline has acquired a 51 per cent stake in Sydney software developer Australian Creative Computing, creators of the Control software program.

DENPASAR Moon on James Street, Northbridge, has just launched a new menu.

303 Advertising blitzed the recent national Golden Stylus Awards in Melbourne, winning gold in the entertainment category for an Artrage commercial, silver in the food category for Giardini's Restaurant and gold in the actor's performance category for the

Get your own FM station!Just when you thought you'd heard it all, along comes music to your ears with On Hold FM. It's innovative, three times as interesting and half the price of other on hold message services.

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.

THE WA Government is charging stamp duty on GST even where GST is not payable rubbing salt in the wounds of the WA property industry already hurting from the double tax on property transactions.

AFTER eight years of Native Title uncertainty, the Labor Party has once again voted out constructive attempts by the Western Australian Parliament to put a workable frame-work over leasehold lands.

Australia Post enters e-ageAUSTRALIA Post has gone online at www.auspost.com.au The website includes a stamp gallery, postage assessment calculator and links to mini-sites offering bill paying and financial services, and even personalised stamps.

WINE is a vital and major tourism catalyst to WA and investment in the industry in recent years has been staggering.