Special Reports

BUNBURY’S Giacci family has sold its trucking and bulk haulage business Giacci Group to listed company Qube Logistics for $119 million, marking yet another trade sale of a major Western Australian

THIRTY years ago Paul Bitdorf escaped the clutches of repressive communism in his native Poland in search of a better life as far away as was possible – in Western Australia.

GOOD DNA only gets a business founder so far.

THERE is nothing small about CJD Equipment.

WESTERN Australia’s leading private companies are under the spotlight now more than ever before.

Private business is a big player in some important WA sectors.

Lucinda ArdaghLUCINDA Ardagh has been public relations and fundraising manager at the St Vincent de Paul Society since March 2005.  

Apart from the overall winner and three other finalists, there are 36 other winners of the 40under40 awards. 

THERE is a framed note hanging in Tri Suseno’s CBD office; it’s penned by legendary investor Warren Buffett and reads, ‘There’s no money like old money’.

LEIGH Hughes started COMVERJ without having ‘learned the ropes’ as an employee, instead jumping in feet first as an entrepreneur and launching the marketing, strategy and innovation company with bu

WHEN Adam Harry joined John Holland in 2007, the engineering and construction group’s Western Australian division had annual turnover of $115 million.

WA Business News 2012 40under40 1st Amongst Equals winner, Grey Egerton-Warburton, believes a business is only as good as its clients.

THERE’S no shortage of talent in Western Australia and, once again, the 40under40 awards proves that entrepreneurial people in all walks of professional life can be found wherever you look in this

THE relentless growth of Woolworths and Coles in the liquor sector hasn’t stopped smaller players from finding a position in the market. 

Wesfarmers has long dominated the estimated $40 billion home improvement and hardware segment with its successful brand Bunnings, so it’s no surprise rival retail giant Woolworths has packed its to

If a bit of competition is healthy, then what sort of shape is Australia’s consumable retail industry in?

IN hindsight, Vanessa Guthrie made some wise decisions at university in the 1970s, combining environment studies with geology well before sustainability and the environment became common parts of t

AT first glance, Fiona Kalaf’s qualifications and career path appear eclectic to say the least, with architecture, business and art history studies, and roles at HBF, Commonwealth Bank and Wesfarme

ALISON Robertson grew up with a passion for horses and a strong desire to become a jockey – but she aimed too high; or to put it more accurately, she grew too tall.

HEATHER Zampatti was exposed to the heady world of big business from an early age thanks to her father, brewing business legend Lloyd Zampatti.

Senior leaders across a range of industries outline the numerous and varied pathways to the top of the corporate ladder.

MAYBE it’s human nature when times are uncertain, but when corporate finance players in Perth were asked to comment on market trends over the past year, most had a glass half-empty perspective.

THREE corporate advisory firms, each with a very different profile, stood out as market leaders in the mergers and acquisitions sector last year.

Local players in the corporate finance market faced more competition than ever before from big national and international firms, WA Business News’ 2011 survey has found.

LIKE iron ore in the Pilbara, Western Australia’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) sector along the state’s north-west coast is experiencing a wave of development and expansion.

THE emergence of the Mid West as a major iron ore mining region remains heavily linked to the controversial Oakajee port and rail development.

WESTERN Australian gold miners have responded to the record prices for the precious metal by lifting production in the past year.

THE iron ore landscape in the Pilbara region is consumed by expansion as miners plan to capitalise on rising prices and strong demand from China.

THE Windimurra vanadium mine, south-east of Mt Magnet, is an operation that really shouldn’t exist.

Miners are looking to shore up their positions following a volatile 2011.

WITH construction costs among the factors dissuading developers from building hotels in Perth, the number of boutique projects coming online in existing structures is cause for optimism, according

THE cost of doing business in the hotel sector is rising, with penalty wage rates among the more contentious issues for operators who claim to face the highest running costs in the world.