Small Business

Many small businesses may be unaware they already have access to a major tax incentive to fund research, in addition to the federal government’s new innovation package.

PlantMiner.com.au is Australia’s largest construction marketplace for acquiring plant, equipment and subcontractors.

Stephen Pollard reckons there aren’t many industries where uniforms come in size 5XL, but the chief executive of contracting and materials company All Earth Group, who spends his days surrounded by big equipment and a workforce of big blokes, is on a mission to prove less is more.

KodaChat is a supervised chat application that makes social media safer for children.

A new business that aims to boost tourism spending by promoting established operators, with a marketing strategy skewed towards South-East Asian travellers, has been launched in Perth.

Techboard provides Perth tech startups with their own ‘ASX-style’ announcements platform.

An arrangement struck two years ago allowing Perth electrical, fire and security service provider Global Electrotech to slowly repay some of its $9 million plus debt to creditors has hit a snag.

Taking a patient, but thorough, approach to building your name and your brand takes dedication and determination.

Less than six months after opening its first Perth store at Cloisters Arcade, Vietnamese street food franchise Rolld has opened another, with a third store planned to open next week that will usher in a new flagship concept for the national chain.

Perth venture capital firms have welcomed government measures today that will allow small businesses to raise money by crowd-sourcing, but criticised them for not going far enough.

A new joint venture that aims to disrupt carwash businesses across the nation is preparing for its Perth launch, because the Japanese distributors believe if their product can keep cars clean in We

SPECIAL REPORT: Third-generation family business R Moore & Sons is investing for its long-term future, which is likely to be under new ownership.

SPECIAL REPORT: Home builder Julian Walter and company director Tony Howarth have spoken to Business News about how they are working together on the transition to the next generation at JWH Group.

Tuggle is a website that allows shoppers to search online and offline shops in one place.

A Perth jeweller has used the launch of her first men’s collection to call on the mining industry to open its production lines to Western Australia’s creative community.

Business confidence in Western Australia has improved for the first time in 12 months, according to the latest results of a Chamber of Commerce and Industry of WA survey.

The state is considering shifting control of industrial relations to the Commonwealth, in an effort to make it easier for small businesses to negotiate on issues such as penalty rates.

Covocate provides algorithm-based candidate screening services for companies seeking to hire new staff.

Perth dermal therapist Kim Tran has taken the top honour as the 2015 Telstra Australian Young Business Woman of the Year.

SPECIAL REPORT: The financial pressures facing many Western Australian businesses are being compounded by significant levels of worker stress, sick leave and absenteeism, a local consultancy has found.

A closed social media platform for families with children aged up to 12 years.

An app that provides businesses (real estate, cars, finance, retail) with short alphanumeric codes, or ‘tiings’, for their display advertising.

Get a few dozen programmers and health practitioners together for a three-day weekend starting Friday, throw some problems at them, then tell them to come up with solutions by Sunday afternoon.

An app that allows users to set up personalised feeds for ASX news, delivering real-time and searchable company announcements, price and volume alerts, and market information to any recent Android or Apple mobile device in a timeline-based context.

MyGuru provides an online marketplace and platform that links tutors who have recently excelled in a course with students currently taking that course.

A web app that helps presenters and trainers connect better with their audiences.

A digital technology communications agency with a social impact focus, DrawHistory is a startup based at the new BloomLab co-working space in Crawley.

Mastering the elements of the sales process requires you to control outcomes and ownership, not simply deliver sales presentations and closing techniques.

Valuing and helping people are key to an effective approach to selling.

Spacecubed will open a new co-working space at 191 St Georges Terrace, under a partnership with commercial property owner and developer Hawaiian.

Docmosis is a document generation engine used by companies building software applications.

Mycovative is a small biotech startup run by molecular genetics and biotechnology student Ben Sharp.