News Articles for CBH Group

CBH Group has awarded its long-term grain rail contract to US transportation group Watco Companies, replacing QR National subsidiary Australian Railroad Group.

Grain storage, handling and marketing co-operative CBH Group is exploring new corporate structures that may require it to pay tax, despite a long battle with the government to protect its tax-exempt status.

GRAIN handler CBH Group has been named the country’s top-earning co-operative, as the group plans for a potential change

CBH Group expects to announce its preferred governance model at a shareholders meeting next month after a resolution to change its structure was quashed.

The success of West Perth as a natural resources hub is all about its ability to adapt.

WESTERN Australia's two peak farming organisations have taken opposing sides in the debate over the governance of grain handling and marketing cooperative CBH Group.

The Pastoralist and Glaziers Association has weighed into the debate on the future structure of CBH Group supporting a push to change the board's makeup.

A dissident bloc of CBH Group shareholders has requisitioned an extraordinary general meeting to seek changes to the grain handling and marketing group's board of directors.

GRAIN storage, handling and marketing giant CBH Group has won a Federal Court appeal over its tax-exempt status that could have cost it millions of dollars a year.

Grain storage, handling and marketing giant CBH Group has won a Federal Court appeal over its tax-exempt status that could have cost it millions of dollars a year.

Grain handler and marketer CBH Group is currently Western Australia's largest not-for-profit business, but whether it retains that status depends on a review of the best way to serve its members.

CBH Group has announced a rebranding of its core business units, to more accurately reflect its key objectives, as a result of the group's 77th Annual General Meeting held today in Perth.

CBH Group, one of Western Australia's largest businesses, is likely to remain a cooperative after WA farmers elected directors who are in favour of keeping its current structure.

WA farmers are playing catch-up in canola while the rest of their sector remains GM free.

West Perth-based grain organisation CBH Group is investigating a structural overhaul to provide better returning value for its 4,500 members.

CBH Resources has decided to develop its Panorama copper-zinc project in the Pilbara as an underground mine with capital costs estimated at $150 million.

IT'S not quite the bush telegraph but the good old-fashioned town hall meeting is still being used to good effect in rural Western Australia.

The competition watchdog has accepted CBH Group's amended grain port access agreement, days before the arrangement is due to be implemented.

Grain handling and exporting group CBH has changed the way it charges for its services, to accomodate growers who use alternative transport arrangements in the deregulated grains market.

The competition watchdog has rejected port access arrangements proposed by grain handlers CBH Group, ABB and Graincorp, saying there needed to be more clarity and transparency for wheat exporters.

Grain handler CBH Group says it will pay users of its Grain Pool or CBH Grain marketing systems as a reward for their loyalty, in a program that could deliver around $15 million back to growers.

It is not that Perth dealmakers are joining the dole queues, they have just had a little more time on their hands recently.

Grain hander and marketer CBH Group has appointed former Wesfarmers executive David Morony as its new chief financial officer.

Grain Coop CBH is at odds with the tax office.

The current backlog of ships has prompted grains handler CBH Group to implement a temporary system that will see grain marketers bid for shipping slots to export grain.

Eight-year veteran Andy Crane will take over from Imre Mencshelyi as the new chief executive of grains handler CBH Group.

Takeover target Perilya says it has lodged its "concerns" to market and corporate watchdogs over suitor CBH Resources' response to a $45 million placement to a Chinese company.

Miner CBH Resources has slammed the board of its takeover target Perilya over the recommendation to shareholders to approve a $45 million share placement to a Chinese company.

Shares in takeover target Perilya have been placed in a trading halt as it waits on potential alternative proposals expected early next week.

CBH Group estimates the total tonnage received from WA's grain growers this year will go close to the record amounts produced in 2003/04.

Perilya has emphasised to its investors to take no action regarding a takeover offer from CBH Resources.

Takeover target Perilya Ltd said it is open to CBH Resources Ltd's bid for the company, but advises a merger at a time of market volatility could expose shareholders to additional risks.

Zinc producer CBH Resources Ltd has launched a hostile $65 million takeover bid for Perilya Ltd, just over two months after the companies terminated a friendly merger proposal.

While the state continues on its record run with $68 billion in exports, three big resource sector producers dominate the field.

THE resources sector may generate the lion's share of the state's export revenue, but the agricultural industry is also creating significant revenues, particularly grain exports.

Perth-based grain handler CBH Group has refuted AWB Ltd's claims to the corporate watchdog that its grain supply chain proposal will lessen competition.

Lead and zinc miner Perilya Ltd has been granted a trading halt, saying that its merger with fellow mid tier miner CBH Resources Ltd is nearing completion.

Base metals miner CBH Resources Ltd, which is planning to merge with Perth-based Perilya later this year, is undertaking a major corporate and operational restructure to help it withstand falling commodity prices.

THE new president of Western Australia's Pastoralists and Graziers Association claims short-sighted local grain growers have succeeded in ‘beaching' their handling cooperative, CBH Ltd, limiting the p

CBH Group has announced it will invest $50 million into its country receival network, as part of its capital expenditure program for the coming year.