Agribusiness

Caratti and PMR likely to settle

REGULAR Gusto readers will remember this correspondent's culinary sojourn through Europe last year.

ANYONE remotely interested in politics would be well aware of the Howard Government's focus on families in last week's budget.

FORMER property developer Tony Fini has unveiled an ambitious plan to establish a new tourism venture at his family's olive grove near Gingin, north of Perth.

THE Catalano family know their fish. Indeed, it would be hard not to for a family that has known nothing else since Frank Catalano bought a fish and chip shop more than 30 years ago.

GRAHAM Laitt is aiming to build a $100 million WA agribusiness enterprise after taking control of Welshpool-based Milne Feeds and folding it into his pastoral holdings.

AGRO-FORESTRY group ITC's capital raising of between $13 million and $15 million is more than a cosmetic effort to improve its appeal to foreign interests.

WA PLANTATION manager Integrated Tree Cropping claims to have been the first to get its prospectuses through under the Australian Securities and Investments Commision's new guidelines.

THE Australian Wheat Board's privatisation plans have stalled.

CORPORATE farming, once touted as the future of agriculture, seems to have lost its appeal.

The Australian Wheat Board hopes to be both a publicly listed company and Australia's largest grain agribusiness within the next twelve months.

The Australian Wheat Board, privatised on 1 July 1999, is operating under a new structure which, according to AWB Limited WA regional manager, Greg Harvey, is more commercially focussed while continuing to be customer driven.