PRIVATE equity backing has enabled Vesco Foods to make the transition from a locally focused family business to a national player in the food services manufacturing sector.
FREMANTLE Ports says it still wants a commercial development at Victoria Quay, after ING Real Estate abandoned its contentious $350 million redevelopment plans.
BUILDING approvals fell in Western Australia over January, but WA fared better than most of the rest of the nation, according to the Housing Industry Association.
SUBIACO-BASED engineering and construction contractor Doric has won a contract to build a new medical research facility in Nedlands, which will have a completed cost of more than $100 million.
Perth-based Hunnu Coal has continued its stunning run with the announcement of a strategic partnership with Singapore-based Banpu Minerals to develop its Mongolian coal tenements.
Gold miner Catalpa Resources has posted a maiden first half profit on the back of record production of the precious metal from its two Australian mines.
"Oh please, hit me again!" That's what management at the ANZ Bank ought to be saying after a conservation movement attack yesterday backfired to the tune of a $908 million profit for the bank's owners.
Engineering and construction firm Forge Group is searching for a new managing director, after its current boss, Peter Hutchinson, stepped down in a move he says will drive the company's next phase of growth.
The Australian Greens say they will oppose any moves to compensate mining giants under a carbon price, amid calls from Rio Tinto that business will struggle to adapt, and from Woodside Petroleum, which says its exports should be exempt from the tax.
Shares in Ramelius Resources rose after it reported high-grade gold results from deeper drilling its Wattle Dam mine in Western Australia and was admitted to the S&P ASX 300 index.
Hong Kong-based Wah Nam International Holdings has extended its parallel takeover bids for West Australian iron ore explorers Brockman Resources and FerrAus by one month.
Lanco Infratech says it will increase production at Griffin's coal mines near Collie by a factor of four, after it completed the $750 million acquisition of the assets.
Sandfire Resources has announced it will go ahead with a $400 million development of its DeGrussa copper-gold project, on the strength of a "robust" pre-feasibility study.
Rio Tinto says Sir Rod Eddington and Yves Fortier will retire as non-executive directors of the mining giant at the end of the annual general meeting on May 5.
Wayne Bergmann, the Kimberley Land Council head who has spearheaded Aboriginal negotiations over a controversial gas hub near Broome, is stepping down from the role.
Australia's biggest gold miner Newcrest Mining has nearly doubled its estimate of deposits at a mine in Papua New Guinea to more than 30 million ounces of gold.
Focus Minerals says it will purchase the remaining stake it does not already own of the Treasure Island gold project in the eastern Goldfields in a scrip and cash offer worth around $2.4 million, on today's share price.
Singaporean engineering firm MTQ now holds a 12 per cent stake in Neptune Marine, after the struggling shipbuilder and engineering firm announced it had reached the minimum subscription level in its $80.6 million capital raising.
When audio engineer Tom Misner began showing people how to twiddle the knobs in the 1970s, he never imagined the business would sell for almost $300 million three decades later.
Ian Trahar has confirmed he will not increase his takeover offer for window coverings manufacturer Kresta Holdings, even though independent analysis of the bid last week found it neither fair nor reasonable.
