News Articles for Competitive Foods Australia

ASX-listed Collins Foods will spend $110.2 million to acquire 28 KFC restaurants around Australia from US-based Yum! Brands, six of which are in Western Australia.

An improved iron ore price delivered huge boosts for mining magnates Gina Rinehart and Andrew Forrest, who were two of the three Western Australians to feature in the top 10 on the nation's best known rich list.

A big increase in takeaway spending in WA may not be flowing through to the big players, but they are still investing in market share.

Hancock Prospecting is poised to become Western Australia's biggest private company after a investment and acquisition spree in iron ore and agribusiness which is expected some time this year to push its revenue past that of the incumbent number one for the past 12 years, home builder BGC. A 2018 reranking appears certain following research for the Business News Private Companies list published today in a special report.

There were 23 Western Australians featured in this year's BRW Rich 200 List, with two new entrants and two others failing to make the cut.

Australia's fast food king Jack Cowin was back where it all began today, opening the nation's 400th Hungry Jack's store in Perth.

Western Australia's top 10 largest private sector employers employ more than 103,200 people between them, about 2,000 fewer than last year, according to BNiQ research.

Seventeen Western Australian business people have been nominated as finalists in the 2014 round of the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year award.

Fast food franchise group Competitive Foods has reported a $21.4 million profit for the year to July 2013, including a $4.9 million profit from the KFC division that it sold last year.

Queensland-based food group Collins Foods will pay $55.6 million to acquire Competitive Foods' KFC business, which is the franchisee of 44 KFC restaurants in Western Australia and the Northern Terr

A slowdown in the mining sector could have positive flow-on effects for employers in other industries, Business News' annual survey of the state's 100 largest employers has found.

An independent review of Australia's franchise sector has recommended substantial reforms, including strengthening the obligations of parties to act in good faith and a stronger enforcement regime.

The leaders of some of WA's top private businesses say overregulation is stifling the development of an entrepreneurial culture in Australia.

PERTH water management company Welltech has had the biggest win of its 20-year history with a contract to work on Brisbane's largest capital works project.

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

Softer conditions outside mining don't bother big private companies too much.