SPECIAL REPORT: Some of WA's top company directors have achieved extraordinary gains in their wealth over the past year, and while most held onto their shares, a group of 11 reaped more than $180 million from share sales.
The youngest son of the late John Roberts, who founded construction company Multiplex, has joined the board of Mineral Resources, filling the seat left vacant when long-serving director Joe Ricciardo retired in April.
GR Engineering Services executive chairman Joe Ricciardo will step into a non-executive chairmanship role from the beginning of next year, after completing the handover of managerial control to managing director Geoff Jones.
GR Engineering Services has promoted chief operating officer Geoff Jones to managing director, to succeed Joe Ricciardo who moves to an executive chairman position.
Perth companies GR Engineering and Aspen Group have announced new leadership, with GR founder Joe Ricciardo moving into a new role and Aspen recruiting a former Valad Property Group executive.
Contracting group GR Engineering says the start of a $123 million works package at Wolf Minerals' Hemerdon tungsten and tin project in England is a welcome boost in a murky mining services market.
Shares in GR Engineering have jumped on the ASX this morning, after the company announced a £75 million ($111 million) contract with Wolf Minerals at the Hemerdon tungsten and tin mine in England.
THE 2012 wealth creators' list would not be complete without acknowledging the fortunes generated by the development of the Little Creatures brewery and subsequent listing of Little World Beverages
PERTH-BASED engineering and construction contractors have released a spate of record earnings reports, while bulging order books suggest there's plenty of life in the resources boom.
IF only all company directors could go out on such a high.Five years after establishing Forge Group, Peter Hutchinson and Andrew Ellison are leaving the business.
Moly Mines has postponed its US$720 million Spinifex Ridge molybdenum project in the Pilbara, admitting that the mine development was not commercially viable at current market prices.
LESS than five years after being established, Perth-based GR Engineering is pursing a stock market float that values the mining services business at $150 million.
