Perth-based CityView Corporation says it will use the $14 million owed to it by Fortitude Minerals to buy an interest in a coal operation in South Africa.
The federal government's business investment stimulus is finally paying dividends with sales of new commercial vehicles in Western Australia rising 6 per cent in March, new figures show.
An understanding of core strengths and a simple business model are some of the tips the state's fastest growing companies say have helped them through a turbulent 2008, a new report has found.
Debt-laden agribusiness investment firm Timbercorp has today appointed voluntary administrators, prompting concern for the managed investment scheme sector.
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THE property industry has called on the government to offer further tax relief to stimulate the market, despite forecasts of a decline in property tax revenue as a result of the housing market downturn.
A PERTH-BASED inventor has used $80,000 in government grants and some of his own money to develop an award-winning safety line he says would be on the market by year's end.
PERTH-BASED oil and gas explorer Buru Energy has unveiled a $41 million takeover bid by a company linked to its chairman, which has proposed to fund the offer out of Buru's cash reserves.
ONLY 55 per cent of directors agree that their chief executive officer's remuneration package is appropriate, according to an Insync Surveys and Board Benchmarking study on remuneration.
AFTER causing a stir in the 1990s with his ANREPS business, real estate veteran Tony Wiles is aiming to shake up the industry again with a new venture, online auction site geewhizauctions.
AUSTRALIA'S major banks have sought to reassure the business sector they are willing and able to lend, despite a record decline in commercial lending over the past year.
MINER Mount Gibson Iron has emerged from a difficult December quarter to post a healthy start to 2009 despite the ongoing uncertainty in the iron ore market.
Engineering and construction company Paladio Group has forecast full-year net profit to reach up to $12 million before any write down associated with the collapse of Windimurra Vanadium.
Shares in Port Bouvard have jumped as much as 20 per cent today as the property developer cleared a major hurdle for the its proposed Point Grey development near Mandurah.
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Minerals testing company Essa Australia has dramatically revised down its second half revenue and profit outlook, and anticipates that its full-year result will be around breakeven.
Osborne Park-based Cell Aquaculture has entered a joint venture deal to establish a $20 million land-based seafood production facility in South Africa.
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