With the journey to Bali taking just as long as the drive to Margaret River, the state’s closest Asia-Pacific neighbour has long been a draw card for Western Australian holiday makers and, as it turns out, business investment.
An opportunity to build Bali’s first marine tourism operation led Richard Chandler and three business partners to establish Bali Hai Cruises in 1990 and there is no doubt the business, like most associated with the Indonesian island, has been presen
IN what is viewed as a tough market for floats, a number of smaller initial public offerings have forged ahead with their plans to list on the Australian Securities Exchange.
Bunbury is hoping to cement itself as the retail hub for the South West by investing more than $150 million into the development of its shopping centres.
IT has been 18 years in the making, but the final pieces of the Subi Centro puzzle are snapping into place, with significant progress occurring at the last two undeveloped sites, the Australian Fine China precinct and Centro North.
Four years ago, Egami Style founder Natasha Di Ciano saw a void in the market for a business that could help people make the best of their image to advance themselves in a professional environment.
Martin Kane is part of a committed team that has been paddling hard on the board to help make surf lifesaving in Western Australia run more like a well-oiled business and to better handle its main task – saving lives.
IT should come as no surprise that the biggest and most common issue confronting a bunch of successful Western Australian companies is that of labour - getting and keeping the skills they need to meet the strong demand they are seeing.
The revelation the state government’s Office of Shared Services is to be disbanded after costing taxpayers almost $450 million over six years is just the latest in a long line of public sector financial disasters.
A strong theme among Ernst & Young’s western region finalists for the Entrepreneur of the Year is the technology businesses that have developed to service the resources sector.
Mirvac, Peet and Satterley Property Group have been shortlisted by LandCorp to develop its 240 hectare landholding at Eglinton, in Perth's northern suburbs.
There has been a flurry of new Western Australian stockmarket entrants to close last financial year and to begin the new, with seven resources-focused firms from WA listing on the Australian Securities Exchange in June and July.
Sending artworks on the long trip across the Nullarbor Plain or on a precious cargo flight may have traditionally been the path for Western Australian art collectors hoping to cut a deal.
Law firms Jackson McDonald and McKenzie Moncrieff will merge to create a 32-partner firm with more than 120 professional staff, cementing it as the second biggest law firm in Western Australia.
WESTERN Australian law firms Clayton Utz, Blake Dawson, and DLA Piper have added new partners to their practices in the past week, while a long-serving member of staff has retired from Norton Rose.
