The global economic downturn has cut Hartleys' net profit after tax by 64 per cent to $6 million for fiscal 2009, in what has been described as a good result by the group's chairman.
Grain handling and marketing company CBH Group plans to simplify its zone system for electing directors after shareholders supported a resolution put forward by the board.
Gina Rinehart has been awarded this year's Telstra WA business woman of the year for her work in transforming Hancock Prospecting into the country's fourth largest exporter of iron ore.
Paladin Energy officers Rick Crabb and Gillian Swaby have reached a settlement deal on their action against collapsed margin lending business Lift Capital Partners, which sold a parcel of shares without permission.
Shares in West Perth-based Red Sky Energy grew as much as 18 per cent in trading this morning following the announcement of further coal seam acquisitions across prospective basins in northern New South Wales.
Perth-based Royal Resources has signed a $50 million binding deal with a Singaporean company for the joint development of the Razorback magnetite iron ore deposit in South Australia.
East Perth-based explorer Westgold Resources says it will press ahead with an exploration program at its Rover project in the Northern Territory, after successfully raising $22 million.
Moly Mines has today announced the terms of its $C31.5 million ($A33 million) capital raising, a necessity for the restructure of its $US150 million financing facility.
Western Australia's unemployment rate has risen to a seasonally adjusted 5.8 per cent in September, bucking the national 0.1 per cent fall, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said today.
A NEW association representing not-for-profit employers in the non-government sector has been given approval by the state's Industrial Relations Commission to become a registered employer organisation.
Industry dismay over RBA rate rise The Reserve Bank of Australia's decision to lift the official cash rate has caused surprise and dismay from various lobby groups, with one from WA saying the central bank has acted too hastily.
AS a pack of reporters thrust their dictaphones in front of Troy Buswell late last week, the treasurer remarked that it reminded him of something other than a press conference.
THE number of Western Australian companies considering listing on the local stock exchange may be gaining momentum, but the frantic activity from a couple of years ago is not likely to occur any time soon.
Directors in Western Australian-listed companies continued to embrace the free share-trading period after the black-out period concluded with the end of the reporting season.
Claremont-based explorer Australia Minerals and Mining Group has added momentum to the re-emergence of companies seeking to list on the ASX, recently lodging its prospectus for a $7.5 million initial public offer.
The corporate watchdog says it will start civil proceedings against a Perth financial advisory firm after clients invested $14 million into the failed Westpoint Group.
Nedlands-based explorer Integra Mining has confirmed it has raised $40 million, which will partly be used for the development of its Randalls gold project in the Goldfields.
IT services provider Empired will build on its presence in Victoria after securing a $3 million contract with the state government's Department of Education and Early Childhood Development for infrastructure outsourcing services.
Lithium producer Galaxy Resources gained as much as 16 per cent in trading this morning after announcing the completion of a $65 million institutional capital raising to be used on its Mt Cattlin mine at Ravensthorpe and a Chinese lithium project.
Western Australia is likely to be one of the few developed economies in the world to avoid a recession during the global economic slowdown, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA said today in its quarterly economic snapshot.
