The Department of Finance has selected 25 businesses for its new common-use arrangement contract to supply food and beverage items to government agencies across Western Australia.
In this Business News podcast, Mark Beyer and Dan Wilkie discuss Collier Homes, Rottnest Express, Sealanes, Diab Engineering, office leasing deals, and chief executive salaries.
A national tourism business backed by Quadrant Private Equity has acquired Rottnest Express, one week after a food services business also backed by Quadrant announced plans to buy family-owned Sealanes.
Our inaugural Business Dynasties feature analyses WA's oldest family businesses, including some that have been running for more than 100 years, profiles Bob and Gavin Bunning 20 years after their family business was bought by Wesfarmers, and looks at the role of ‘outsiders' like Neil Hamilton, Michael Smith and Ian Cochrane in some of WA's most notable family enterprises. Also, see our new WA Business Dynasties list.
The Paino family, owners of prominent South Fremantle business Sealanes, provides a telling case study of a management succession that has not run according to plan.
WA ship supplier and food service company Sealanes has been named Family Business Australia's “Third generation family business of the year” at a ceremony in Melbourne last Saturday.
