ALMOST apologetically, guest judge Ian McKenzie gave the WA wine industry a bake when he took the microphone at the Sheraton WA Wine Awards before 400 guests at the annual presentation dinner last month.
THE following company personnel changes have been notified to the WA office of the Australian Stock Exchange:John Traicos has been appointed as Company Secretary of Perilya Mines NL, replacing Julie Wolsley.
KIMBERLEY Diamond Company NL has unveiled the most significant results to date from its Blina project in Western Australia, with the first bulk sample treated during its 2000 field program so far yielding a parcel of 44 diamonds weighing 21.31 carats.
SERVICE should never interfere with a diner's pleasure and one of the finite skills involved in the art of waiting is timing. The service staff have a delicate but business-like function to attend to and it goes way beyond simply serving food.
AUSTRALIAN winter crop production is forecast to fall by more than 4 per cent to 33.62 million tonnes in 2000-01, ABARE's acting executive director Vivek Tulpule said when releasing the September issue of the Australian Crop Report this week.
A KUNUNURRA-based IT business is up for sale by tender.Owners Mark and Wendy Graubner are looking for a change in direction 10 years after establishing their business.
AUSTRALIA'S largest glass replacement company, O'Brien Glass, recently warned the business community that glass in buildings which is not compliant with the most recent glass building code, AS 1288, poses a serious threat to business.
QUALITY has been a central part of organisational strategy for many years, dating back at least to Deming's work in Japan after the Second World War and is a central construct in a long-term research program being undertaken at the University of Western A
AUSTRALIAN Competitive Energy (ACE) will soon launch what could prove to be the most powerful, on-line business-to-business tool the oil, gas and downstream processing industry has experienced.
THE State Government continues to be very concerned about the effect of ongoing petrol price rises and their impact on everyone in the State, from families to businesses.
TUSCAN cooking revolves around the hearth or roasting spit (Girarrosto) – the common name for a multitude of restaurants where chickens, suckling kids, pork and game are loaded perpetually on the large spits that hold the centre of attention.
THE entrepreneurial skills of Perth-based Aquarius Platinum Limited have been aptly demonstrated with the establishment of an alliance to more than double platinum base metals production in South Africa.
IS your business looking for a software solution that will automatically document and link all correspondence and client information, as well as help you manage projects? If the answer is yes, new IntelliFACTOR is the solution.
WESTEL Group Limited's subsidiary Concentrix Pty Ltd has signed an agreement with major Australian telecommunications carrier ComVergent Telecommunications.The agreement will provide ComVergent with access to Westel's phone number portability solutions
RESOURCES giant Rio Tinto has struck back at diamond dealer DeBeers' plans to force the Argyle Diamond Mine back into its Central Selling Organisation.
AN Australian Securities and Investments Commission survey of online trading web sites outlined some consumer protection and disclosure issues that need to be addressed by the industry.
THE Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has completed a further four investigations into claims surrounding the introduction of the New Tax System.The investigations arose out of follow-ups to the complaints to the GST Price Line.
A GROUND-breaking addition to the Whittle range of mining optimisation software that could revolutionise this multi-billion dollar sector, forms the centrepiece of a new $4.75 million public offer by Whittle Technology Limited.
THERE has been much negative coverage in Business News regarding the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre (PCEC). In response, there are some issues I would like to raise.
IF THE pungent aroma of garlic wasn't wafting around the corner of Rokeby Road and Hay Street as it has done for 30 years, it would be an unlikely but sure sign that the Witches' Cauldron had closed its very popular doors.
A TWO-day seminar to be held on September 4 at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry is aiming to teach small business owners to build a better business.
WA SUCCESS story ERG Group has achieved record operating profit of $35.2 million for the year ending June 30, 2000 – a 73 per cent increase on the previous period.
PAIN Gone is a remarkable new technology based on the age old principle of acupuncture and a technique known as Transcutaneous Nerve Stimulation (TNS) to relieve pain suffered from a myriad of complaints.
