A strong six months for the project services division has helped to lift engineering firm Lycopodium's half year net profit up 66 per cent to $8 million.
Alinta owner Babcock & Brown Power has revealed an $18 million hit from the Varanus Island gas explosion as earnings for the half year dipped 9 per cent.
Undies boss tripled her pay, then sacked 1,850 workers; Buckeridge private port 'favoured' for Cockburn; Telstra chief goes early as profit slides; Financial adviser crackdown; ANZ to cut dividends as debts rise, profit slows
Perth-based Amcom Telecommunications has benefitted from its major shareholding in internet service provider iiNet as it today boosted its half year net profit by 38 per cent.
TFS Corporation says it is on track to achieve at least 15 per cent growth in net cash earnings for the 2009 financial year as it today booked a $5.2 million half-year net profit after tax.
A lower than anticipated performance from Alinta and other operating businesses has prompted Babcock & Brown Power to revise down its full year earnings.
The buoyancy of the oil and gas sector in the current economic climate has helped deliver record revenues and profit for the half year for Neptune Marine Services.
Wealth management company Plan B Group Holdings has paid some $7 million in cash and scrip to acquire a majority interest in Melbourne-based wealth advisory business, Strategic Financial Management.
Two more years of economic pain; Fortescue cancels raising; Seven minus debt equals zero; Bonds put Woodside on strong cash track; OZ shares fall on fear of banks
RESEARCH has shown that Australian businesses involved in importing and exporting in the current economic climate are becoming dissatisfied with the trade loans provided by their financiers.
FEDERAL schemes designed to increase the uptake of solar panels have created plenty of business for companies like Solar Unlimited, but the rapid expansion is providing a major management challenge for the Western Australian firm.
The Western Australian Trade Enquiry Service is operated by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA with the support of the WA Government's Department of Industry and Resources.
THE Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA has named the Small Business Development Corporation, LandCorp and the state's eight port authorities as prime candidates for privatisation or review.
THERE must have been high-fives all through the halls of power in Beijing last week as government Mandarins celebrated victory over Western mining interests.
INDUSTRY groups have welcomed increased federal government support for training, as one of Australia's largest training providers was forced for the first time ever to stand down probationary apprentices.
At least 10,000 jobs are forecast to go in Western Australia over the next 18 months as an economic forecaster projects a 50 per cent fall in mining investments over the next two years.
Mining services company Emeco Holdings has revised down its full year earnings forecast as it books a 30 per cent lift in half year net profit after tax of $39 million.
Fortescue Metals Group remains in a trading halt as it considers more capital raising after agreeing to sell a stake to a Chinese steel maker for $1.2 billion.
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Iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group has negotiated a $558 million capital injection at $2.48 per share with Chinese steel maker Hunan Valin Iron and Steel Group Company.
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The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of WA has identified 33 government agencies which it believes are superfluous and, subject to review, need to be consolidated, abolished, or have their services privatised or contracted out.
