THE high calibre of the University of Western Australia's alumni was on show this week, with the opening of its business school premises and the launch of an international conference.
Stirling Resources has extended its financial relationship with Austrian commodities trader DCM DECOmetal, raising $10 million to acquire Matilda Minerals mineral sands assets.
Perth company Plantation Energy Australia (PEA) has struck a $70 million, three-year deal with a Belgium-based power company to supply densified biomass fuel pellets.
Publisher West Australian Newspapers Holdings (WAN) has posted a modest rise in reported net profit for the March quarter but nearly all other performance indicators showed a major slump.
There has been a mixed response to the federal government's back-flip to delay the emissions trading scheme by one year, with some saying the changes do not go far enough.
Job advertisements in Western Australia have fallen more than 7 per cent in April while national figures fell for the 12th consecutive month, a survey shows.
Macquarie Group has posted a 52 per cent fall in annual profit - its first decline in 17 years - as chief executive Nicholas Moore takes a hefty 99 per cent pay cut.
Nomad Building Solutions has announced it will retain Alan Thomas as managing director, a week after securing Paul Depiazza as chief financial officer.
Gold miner Newcrest Mining has withdrawn from its joint venture with Leederville-based SmartTrans Holdings over the Mount Mackenzie gold joint venture in Queensland.
THE tenure of chief executives in Western Australia is likely to get a lot shorter if recent trends keep up, with a flurry of local firms making changes at the top.
MADDINGTON-BASED Coote Industrial and associated company Greentrains have negotiated related fund raising deals worth $8 million with Victorian Caterpillar dealer Dale Elphinstone.
Agribusiness and automotive components supplier Futuris Corporation will begin trading on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) on Thursday under the old Elders name.
Acquisitive national facilities manager Spotless Group has completed the acquisition of the business assets of Riley Shelley, a company founded through a joint venture of a Perth and Brisbane-based painting businesses.
OZ Minerals Ltd, which has struck a deal with China Minmetals Non-Ferrous Metals Co Ltd that will give it funds to pay down debt, has reported mixed production results from its Golden Grove mine in WA.
West Perth-based Reed Resources has obtained an exclusive option to acquire a silver project and processing plant near Kalgoorlie from a private company for more than $2 million.
Shares in Aurox Resources have been placed in a trading halt as it waits on environmental approval for its Balla Balla magnetite iron ore project in the Pilbara.
Shares in Perth-based Berkeley Resources have risen after Spanish authorities gave the go-ahead to a co-operation agreement over the Salamanca uranium project.
Sharp increases in oil and gas works will not offset WA's engineering construction activity which is forecast to fall 15 per cent over the next two years, an economic forecaster says.
Engineering and mining services provider Macmahon Holdings will axe a further 360 jobs over the next two months as it forecasts second-half profits to collapse as mining contracts are cancelled and rain hampers operations.
Maddington company Coote Industrial Ltd and associated company Greentrains Ltd have negotiated related fund raising deals worth $8 million with Victorian Caterpillar dealer Dale Elphinstone.
Uranium play Wildhorse Energy has moved to reduce the size of its board as part of its strategic review with director Craig Burton taking over from chairman Mark Hughes who has decided to step down.
Belmont-based Paladio Group has halted its national expansion plans to re-focuse on WA as former Multiplex director Geoff Allen and BOOM Logistics founder Bill Healy join the board.
The long wait for environmental approvals for the $1.8 billion Karara iron ore joint venture has prompted Gindalbie Metals chairman George Jones to call the situation "embarrassing".
Debt-laden agribusiness investment firm Timbercorp has today appointed voluntary administrators, prompting concern for the managed investment scheme sector.
