Staff Reporters

AQUINAS College has become renowned for its Community Service Programs. The programs have won the Volunteer Centre of WA’s Western Australian Difference Awards, and the Red Cross has awarded Aquinas with a national award for community service.

THESE days it seems almost everyone has heard of the world’s largest bookstore business, Amazon.com. That is remarkable testimony to a business that did not exist in 1994.What is also well known is that Amazon has yet to return a profit.

The world’s squillion dollar public relations juggernaut is resting easier this week after squashing the ill-placed notion: “We don’t need public relations when we’ve got marketing”.

THE new Franchising Code of Conduct has a number of requirements that will benefit both franchisees and franchisors, says Australian Competition and Consumer Commission small business officer Siobhan O’Gara.

POOR global market conditions for high-quality diamonds has forced the De Beers controlled Central Selling Organisation to cut back sales in an attempt to stabilise the market.

ATTRACTIVELY landscaped verges and 200-year old Tuart trees are attracting home buyers to Woodleigh Grove, where more than half the 42 blocks on offer have been sold to date.

THE recent controversial ideas design competition by the City of Stirling will be the prelude to a multi-million development on the Scarborough foreshore to attract tourists and more visitors.

Funny, corporately speaking, has become big business. While Peter Holland can be assured there are still places on the speakers’ circuit for the serious MC, the wise-cracker gets the bigger round of applause.

THE mandatory Franchising Code of Conduct introduced last year is seeing growing acceptance from the industry.

EVER wondered just how your retail business is going? How do others pinpoint the areas in their store which have fallen down? How do they set their standards, their goals and their budgets?

THE impact of a goods and service tax on property prices may be part of a driving force behind the increased levels of residential property sales, especially in the luxury bracket.

PERTH-based Glengarry Resources NL has launched a big drilling program to consolidate its position in the Tanami Desert.

MOVING from the security of the small primary school class group can often cause considerable anxiety to students starting high school.

REGARDLESS of their size, industry or financial health, a majority of major companies around the world are suffering some version of executive talent shortage.

PROPERTY analysts gazing into their crystal balls have forecast a relatively stable property market for the CBD during the remaining months of this calendar year.

THE Brumby’s bakery franchise has grown to 35 branches throughout WA in the past five years — with another seven planned by the end of the year.

SOVEREIGN Resources (Australia) NL has reached a significant milestone in the development of its SRDC manganese sulphate project.

WESLEY College recently launched WA’s first interschool student tabloid publication, xiBit, involving 10 other independent Perth schools.

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Gold Corporation CEO Don Mackay-Coghill and WMC executive general manager, Peter Johnston are among those maintaining faith in gold. As you would expect.

THE 1999 Business Opportunities and Franchise Expo at Burswood Dome in May should attract around 5,000 people.

LandCorp’s renewed focus on disposing of surplus government land assets is taking shape at several new sites.

Every organisation today uses computers and all managers, like it or not, have to understand how to take advantage of information technology (IT).

TENIX Defence Systems recently opened a regional office in Darwin to supply electronic communication systems to the region’s oil and gas, resource and defence industries.

Deputy lord mayor Tess Stroud is “dying to see more cranes on the skyline” but warns “we don’t want to grow too quickly”.

The fuss is about a new restaurant in Margaret River’s main street; VAT 107.

The WA housing sector has hit new highs in buying sentiment and affordability.

A business consultancy is teaching marketing and communications using Neuro Linguistic Programming.

We watched man walk on the moon, the iron curtain lower, missiles rain on Iran and Balkan refugees flee. All in our loungerooms.

Perth has evolved into a surprisingly well planned city despite lacking a town planner, says WA Chinese Chamber of Commerce vice president and trade committee chairman Roger Kwok.

Despite public statements by insurers to the contrary, it is possible to purchase some forms of Year 2000 Problem insurance.

WA’S independent supermarket owners are pleading for Federal Government intervention to save their businesses.