Staff Reporters

THE Australian Securities and Investments Commission recently announced it would extend relief granted from the prospectus provisions of the Corporations Law for employee share issues.

A handsome new $5 million office/apartment building proposed in West Perth was specially designed by architect Andrew Campion, of Campion Design Group, to combine city views with contemporary living.

A small Sydney-based company, with widespread WA distribution of its mostly pharmaceutical products, has achieved an international breakthrough with a new technology.

Hotmix Group provides Internet Services squarely focused on the needs of business.

MORE than 70 per cent of the finalists in this year’s WA Tourism Awards for Excellence are from the regions, with the Kimberley and South West providing 50 per cent.

Melbourne-based consultant Peter Moore has been appointed by Sovereign Resources (Australia) NL to spearhead their marketing strategy for its $78 million SRDC manganese sulphate project, locat-ed 61 kilometres southeast of Nullagine in the Pilbara region

An international hotel chain has secured its first foothold in WA’s hospitality industry with a management contract for a $55 million development in North Fremantle.

THE Internet’s pace of adoption has eclipsed the take-up rate of all preceding communications technologies.

Visitors to the City Beach foreshore in the near future may be surprised to discover a new cafe/restaurant for their entertainment.

WORKSHOPS are being held throughout WA to discuss the next five year strategy for the state’s tourism industry.The WA Tourism Commission has employed independent consultant Market Equity to meet with a wide range of industry bodies to investigate their

The eyes of the nickel world were firmly fixed on WA at an event to examine progress at the nickel laterite processing facilities at Murrin Murrin, Bulong and Cawse in the eastern Goldfields.

With the Internet Phantom Menace casting a shadow over the business world and so many small to medium-size businesses acquiring technologies from different sources, it’s a lot like dancing with wolves (providers) while trying to make peace with the Indian

Imagine if I were to ask ten of the most talented and experienced entre-preneurs: “what is the most important ingredient in running a successful service business?”. I could get ten different answers: knowledge, experience, capital, advertising, training,

THE recent move by the Bank of England to sell 125 tonnes of gold this year stopped dead a rally in the precious metal.

A major retail centre in Albany, the Dog Rock Shopping Centre, has been placed on the market by its vendors at a proposed price of between $7 million and $8 million.

In its first year of operation, Perth-based First Quantum Minerals Ltd has commissioned two new mines in Cen-tral Africa and placed its Likasi copper-cobalt tailings project in the Shaba province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) into mothballs.

iiNET is WA owned and provides effective Internet solutions for business customers.

1998 WA Tourism Awards winner El Questro has been nominated for the Sir David Brand Award for Tourism in this year’s awards.

Online share trading has been in Australia for two years, and now Internet stockbrokers are fighting for business through full-page press and television advertising.

Commercial interest in the CBD continues to be strong, according to a report by real estate company Herron Todd White.

THE cobalt-rich mineral resources of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are being exploited to the detriment of the country’s environment and to the financial benefit of African leaders of state.

Worldwide Internet are an Internet Service Provider based in Victoria Park.

LOCAL tourism operators are pleased with the positive comment being made about the revised belltower design, says Tourism Council Australia president Laurie O’Meara. He said the belltower will quickly become a ‘must visit’ for people visiting Perth.

INTERNATIONAL finance leader Merrill Lynch has experienced great interest in its international online trading system since being launched early this year.

A SMALL decline Australia-wide in dwelling commencements this year will impact on Queensland and Tasmania, while WA is poised for significant growth.

THREE strikes for Carnarvon Petroleum NL are likely to have its directors and shareholders, cracking open the Vintage Brut to celebrate.

A RECENT trade mission to South Africa and Mozambique by a WA business delegation investigated new and emerging commercial opportunities.

THE handing down of the State Budget and the signing of the Regional Forest Agreement with the Federal Government made for a busy start to this month.

IT has been observed that 80 per cent to 90 per cent of the organisations we work in today will not exist in twenty years time or will be radically different.

The Federal Government’s move to censor the Internet is a cynical exercise which is doomed to fail. The Broadcasting Services Amendment (Online Services) Bill has been developed by television regulators blundering into a field they know little about.

Maid Perfect was launched last year by Lorna Good as a follow-on to her well-known Flying Domestics business.Flying Domestics is a casual cleaning service, while Maid Perfect is aimed at servicing larger homes on an ongoing basis.

THE Mid West region is truly a big slice of WA. Covering 470,000 square hectares, from the coast into the farming wheatbelt, through the pastoral hinterland to the mining centres in the east, it comprises almost one fifth of the state.