Global education services provider Navitas Ltd has acquired Cytech Intersearch Pty Ltd, a small NSW-based labour hire company servicing the healthcare industry.
South Perth-based Central Petroleum Ltd has released details of its $6 million fund raising via a pro rata rights issue to shareholders to address the dilutionary affect of a bond subscription deal with DB Zwirn Mauritius Trading No 3 Ltd.
Perth-based Quickflix Ltd has lodged its offer document with respect to a rights issue to raise $4.1 million to fund development of its national DVD rental business.
Alternative capital raising platform, the Australian Small Scale Offerings Board, has signed up Australian Securities Exchange-listed Ipernica Ltd as its second Western Australian accredited member.
Nearly four months have passed since the state government revealed Kitchener Park to be its chosen site for a 60,000 seat multi-purpose sports stadium.
Arts groups and charities in Western Australia have long argued that the state lacks the culture of giving evident in larger capitals such as Sydney and Melbourne.
Visiting WA: Robin Sharma, organisational and leadership coach and best selling author of The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari and The Greatness Guide, to present his full day leadership workshop ‘Lead Witho
Stan Perron is one of the state’s most successful entrepreneurs, having created an empire of immense proportions fuelled initially by his Toyota franchise and then iron ore royalties, and more recently by significant property assets and equities.
Four years ago, WA Business News started writing about the shortages of skilled labour that had emerged in economic hot spots such as engineering and mineral exploration.
A largely hidden side of wealth creation is in the private sector, where successful entrepreneurs have built considerable businesses, in many cases with their families or over more than one generation.
The oil and gas industry is a major contributor to Australia’s economy, generating estimated revenue of $33.6 billion in 2007, mostly out of Western Australia.
Employers will have more influence over the content and duration of apprenticeships in their industry, if new legislation introduced by the state government is passed.
The Western Australian Trade Enquiry Service is operated by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australia (CCI) with the support of the WA Government's Department of Industry and Resour
Brisbane-based Bank of Queensland Ltd (BoQ) will be looking for as many as 30 people with banking experience to take on former Home Building Society Ltd branches as it sets about converting its newly purchased Western Australian operations into franchises
Despite an ongoing shortage of car bays in the Perth CBD, national parking operator Wilson Parking is reducing its footprint in the city, having failed to secure approvals from the City of Perth.
Two Perth companies have been fined in the Perth Magistrate’s Court for pressuring employees to sign Australian Workplace Agreements, recently abolished by the federal government.
Property developers in Western Australia may soon be required to pay local governments an amount of money towards community infrastructure determined by a set calculation, under a policy to be introduced by the state government.
The state government has introduced a new long-term rental model for the inner-city area, which aims to increase the supply of affordable rental accommodation in Perth.
It ranks poorly in terms of salary and is largely ignored in immigration quotas, yet the hospitality sector is viewed as critical in terms of helping Western Australia overcome its labour shortages.
Former Liberal senator Ian Campbell is an unlikely eco-warrior but his track record since leaving federal parliament last year definitely has a green tinge, albeit with a very corporate approach.
With transit-oriented, high density development firmly on the state government’s agenda, the Town of Vincent is planning to rezone a large area of land along Newcastle Street to allow mixed-use development of five and six storeys in height.
Their visits may be infrequent, but every time one of the floating palaces known as super-yachts visits our shores it could inject more than $1 million into the local economy.
West Perth-based clean energy company Cool Energy Ltd has joined forces with one of Australia’s premier geological storage companies to provide what it claims is a total service solution for the capture and storage of carbon dioxide.
With an end to the nation’s wine glut in sight, winery owners in the South West are on the front foot, developing boutique accommodation on their properties to service the region’s short-stay holiday market.
