Rio Tinto Ltd, the world's third largest mining company, has forecast higher prices for the company's core commodities of iron, alumina and copper after delivering a record first half profit.
He's worked as a lawyer, played Australian rules football at the highest level, and has spent the past 20 years as a trade commissioner and private consultant helping Western companies do business in China.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has been forced to take a tougher stance on accepting undertakings during mergers following examples of businesses acting in bad faith, commission chairman Graeme Samuel said last week.
For most manufacturers, a $5 billion order book represents a pretty ambitious target - even more so when the company is a shipbuilder from the small suburb of Henderson, Western Australia.
When Suzannah Vaughan was appointed to run the first floating production storage and offloading vessel to work offshore India, she believed it was another significant step in her family's connection with the subcontinent and oil.
Western Australia's labour shortage may be top of the election agenda for the state's peak business lobby group, but the recruitment of blue-collar overseas workers is set to become more difficult, according to the migration industry.
Uranium miner Paladin Energy and iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group have for the third year running maintained their status as the top performing Western Australian stocks, based on rolling five-year returns.
Like many Perth restaurateurs, Maurizio Restaurant proprietor Maurizio Di Ciano believes the hospitality industry has a perception problem with regard to the career options available.
The recent decision by two of Western Australia's microbrewers to sell up could present growth opportunities for the industry's remaining players, according to Gage Roads CEO Nick Hayler.
Liberal Party leader Colin Barnett's commitment to increased education spending was one of the few standouts in the third week of the state election campaign, which has continued to be a lacklustre affair.
Investors trying to pick the next big thing in the resources boom poured their money into a diverse group of Western Australian companies last year, including iron ore, coal and phosphate stocks.
As so often happens in the unpredictable hurly-burly of party political rivalry, while you're looking one way there's something happening elsewhere that's at least equally, and often far more, important.
Western Australia is in the middle of a once-in-a-generation boom, but you'd struggle to know that if you had closely followed the state election campaign.
Whether or not you are a fan of the Olympic Games, this wonderful event does highlight the competitiveness of nations, exposing what can be achieved by investment of resources and exploitation of natural advantages.
The falling Australian dollar could play out nicely for industrial company Schaffer Corporation Ltd, which last week posted a 6 per cent increase in net profit to $11 million for the 2008 financial year.
Whether or not you are a fan of the Olympic Games, this wonderful event does highlight the competitiveness of nations, exposing what can be achieved by investment of resources and exploitation of natural advantages.
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
Kwinana-based engineering and fabrication company Ausgroup Ltd has reported a fall in annual profit despite achieving a big increase in revenue and having a record order book.
A group of Western Australian property developers is still waiting to receive a planning document that would allow more than 3,000 hectares of land in the Peel region to be converted to housing.
WESTERN Australian businessman Rory Argyle has been awarded the top honour from the Australian Institute of Company Directors for his wide ranging achievements in business and in the community.
PricewaterhouseCoopers was the fastest growing accounting firm in Western Australia during the past year, with the number of accountants up more than 22 per cent on the previous year.
MORE than 75,000 people could be living and working in the Pilbara by 2012, with the number of resource industry employees expected to double and fly-in, fly-out workers expected to triple by 2015, ac
