Special Reports

Title: Chief financial officerBusiness: Insurance and commercial businessesTotal employees: 904 (group)

Title: Business development manager North-West Shelf Venture 

The entire team at WA Business News is proud to introduce the 2007 class of 40under40 winners. They are a remarkable group of individuals who, through sheer determination and passion, have worked hard to achieve their goals and objectives.

Title: Managing directorBusiness: Strategic planning servicesTotal employees: 15

Title: Chief executive officerBusiness: Engineering, construction and contracting companyTotal employees: 82

Title: Executive dean 

Title: Managing directorBusiness: Boutique design firmTotal employees: 12

Title: Founder and managing directorBusiness: Engineering companyTotal employees: 20

Title: Deputy managing directorBusiness: Oil and gas explorerTotal employees: 25

Title: Deputy director general 

Title: Executive directorBusiness: Technology companyTotal employees: 350

Title: General managerBusiness: Non-campaign advertising specialistTotal employees: 30

Title: CEO 

Title: Founder, managing director and major shareholderBusiness: Regional bus and coach operator

Title: Dealer principal/directorBusiness: Ford and Mitsubishi motor vehicle retail franchises

Title: Chief executive officerBusiness: Imaging services to regional areasTotal employees: 95

Title: Publisher 

Title: Managing directorBusiness: Property investment consultancy group Total employees: 16

Title: MayorBusiness: Local governmentTotal employees: 580

Title: Sales manager, WA 

Opera in the park - Supreme Court Gardens will come alive on Friday February 16 at 8.30pm with the City of Perth’s 16th edition of the Opera in the Park presenting Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld.

Dan Pannell stopped sending his Picardy wine to Qantas years ago after seemingly failing to secure a plum spot on the airline’s wine list.

The state’s South West has long been the playground of choice for the suits on the terrace. They have, over the years, bought beach shacks and either embarked on massive renovations or demolished and rebuilt.

Considered among the most expensive strata resorts in the South West, Karma Resort Margaret River is planning to increase the number of luxury villas on its 19-hectare estate.

Health retreats have typically evoked images of preening and pampering, with cucumber facial treatments, mud wraps and massages that last for hours.

Got a spare $10,000 and some time off? WA Business News has sourced some of Western Australia’s finest private holiday homes, boasting sweeping views along the South West and Great Southern coastlines and the latest in designer interiors and appliances.

Emirates is hoping to capitalise on expected growth in the Australian travel market by increasing its capacity and doubling the frequency of its flights to 98 a week over the next seven years.

Favourite holiday destination? - “I travel a great deal and experience very different countries and cities, but for my wife, Leanne, and me, Venice retains a special attraction. It has retained its magic largely unspoiled by our 21st century commercial w

Michelin star chef Spencer Patrick has worked in some of London’s most exclusive restaurants, but since January he has called Western Australia home.

A proposed $2 billion radio telescope in the Mid West is forcing infrastructure and mining companies in the once-sleepy region to reshape their plans.

The Mid West region has established itself as Western Australia’s second iron ore province after the Pilbara, with three companies now exporting ore through Geraldton and a fourth planning to start exports next year.

Australia’s prospects of hosting the world’s biggest telescope have hit a significant hurdle after the co-ordinating committee was forced to consider an alternative location.