The past year was a boom time for many businesses and investors, yet ironically it was characterised as much by failed deals and lost opportunities as it was by successful transactions.
A broad cross-section of Western Australian companies were recognised for their innovative work in the fields of medical research, technology design and environmental sustainability science, information technology and the environment last year.
Major players making major deals was the dominant feature of Perth’s commercial office market in 2006, as yields and office vacancies tightened and rents skyrocketed.
About 20 stockbrokers turned their backs on their big-name employers last year to establish new firms in a bid to capitalise on WA’s booming resources sector.
While the state’s residential and commercial markets were strong performers in 2006, positive sales results were also emerging in the industrial and retail sectors.
Euroz Securities has for the first time knocked Patersons Securities off its position as the top stockbroking firm in Perth for equity capital raisings.
There has been a considerable amount of activity in the state’s innovation sector during the past 12 months, with more WA companies investing in innovation than anywhere else in Australia, in per capita terms.
Daniel Chick’s smother, followed by the shepherd that paved the way for Adam Hunter to kick a goal and seal the nail biting grand final for the West Coast Eagles was but one of many spectacular moments on the Western Australian sporting calendar in 2006.
It was a year of highs and lows in Western Australia’s property game, with a record 46 per cent surge in Perth’s housing prices in the year to September and stellar commercial gains.
Western Australia’s resources sector continued to grow during 2006, with record production and export figures. A declining share of national exploration spending, however, remains a key issue.
Premier Alan Carpenter has finished the year sounding upbeat, despite all of the ministerial and corruption crises gripping his government. Mark Beyer and Mark Pownall report.
The amalgamation of local councils is a topic of debate that generates a lot of heat, but outside of Geraldton and Northam there is no immediate prospect of real change.
A review of the local government sector has called on the state government to provide $25 million in new funding to help the sector boost its services and capabilities.
The shortage of skilled planners and the lack of long-term strategic planning have been identified as two of the major issues facing the local government sector.
The City of Cockburn’s first joint venture development is expected to deliver the city a new $6 million library at Cockburn Central and a share of the project’s profits.
With local government coming under close scrutiny, WA Business News invited some of the leading figures in the sector to discuss key challenges and propose solutions.
As the New Year approaches, property pundits are hedging their bets on where the market will head in 2007 while reflecting on a year during which the price of an established house rose by 46 per cent in just nine months.
Nigel Satterley mingles with WA's business elite and with prime ministers, but it wasn't always so glamorous for the man who leads the nation's largest independent residential development company.
A three-year partnership between Woodside Energy and the West Australian Music Industry Association (WAM) has provided students in regional and remote areas access to contemporary music.
Specialising in information technology services, ZettaServe was formed by Dr Nathan Harman in 2003 following his departure from Marconi Australia, which dissolved its desktop management division in late December 2003 to refocus on its core telecommunicati
Every year, in the historic settlement of Cossack, about 1,600 kilometres from Perth, a major art exhibition draws national and international attention to Western Australia’s remote north-west.
Walking along Fremantle’s Market Street in 2002, business manager Richard Poulson and his wife, designer Kylie Radford, had a clear vision of their future business, clothing and retail company Morrison International Pty Ltd.
Owned and managed by the Di Virgilio brothers, Maddington-based DVG Automotive sells new and used vehicles and related services to the general public and fleet customers.
Television advertising can be prohibitively expensive for not-for-profit organisations, a hindrance that AWESOME Arts has managed to overcome through its partnership with three useful entities – a television station, an advertising company and a film comp
The resolute determination in 2001 to build a world-class office furniture manufacturing facility in Perth has brought freestanding office furniture manufacturer Designtec substantial growth in the marketplace.
