A strong all-round performance in supporting small business clients has seen ANZ Bank take out the first-ever best value national award for small business banking, given by premier financial services research company CANNEX.
Western Australian publishing company, Aspermont, has recorded a net profit of $2.3 million for the year ending June 2008 and anticipates further growth after its recent $21 million acquisition of Mining Communications Limited (MCL).
An expansion of Perth's public transport network, including a new rail line to Ellenbrook, was the centrepiece of the Labor Party's election campaign launch on Sunday.
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australia has expressed disappointment at the absence of a vision for the future, and detailed plans to achieve it, by the State's politicians during the election campaign.
Western Australia's state opposition is threatening to penalise BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto if they merge, saying that a Liberal government would wipe out vital royalty concessions now enjoyed by the mining giants, The Australian reported today.
Credit crunch strips $12bn out of profits; Liberals oppose BHP merger; Big supermarkets face ban on buying rivals; Fairfax journos return as bosses drop threats, offer pay rise; RBA cut to boost economy
Earnings in Maddington-based engineering company Coote Industrial Ltd has skyrocketed 191 per cent to $23.8 million on the back of stronger revenues for the 2008 financial year.
State opposition leader Colin Barnett has accused Treasurer Eric Ripper of misleading the public over Japanese company Inpex Ltd's decision to build a $12 billion liquefied natural gas plant.
Como-based construction company Forge Group Ltd has posted a 121 per cent jump in net profit after tax of $6 million in its first full year as a listed entity.
Investor Duncan Saville's Ingot Entities has agreed to buy embattled ticketing company ERG Ltd which today posted a net loss of $103 million for the 2008 financial year.
Despite a volatile market in the second half of the 2008 financial year, the full year net profit in construction company Diploma Group Ltd has soared over 290 per cent, boosted by the early settlement of the Probuild joint venture agreement.
Welshpool-based mining services company NRW Holdings Ltd has forecast a profit growth of at least 15 per cent for the 2009 financial year, as it today reported a 137 per cent jump in full year net profit.
Western Australia has recorded the largest fall in new home sales for the July month as the property market across the country continues to struggle with high interest rates and a slowing economy.
Panoramic Resources Ltd has followed the trend of its fellow nickel miners, today posting a 40 per cent fall in full year net profit to $53.3 million on the back of lower commodity prices and higher operating costs.
Gas market faces ACCC shake-up; B&B plans sell-off of fund rights in cash hunt; $100bn show of investment confidence; AMP spells out risk as profit dips; Fairfax journalists strike over job cuts
West Perth-based gold miner Dominion Mining Ltd has booked a full year net profit after tax of $33.4 million net profit, down 35 per cent from the previous year's result of $51.7 million.
Higher exploration costs have dented gold miner St Barbara Ltd's full year earnings loss, which plummeted to a loss of $17.3 million, down from the previous year's net loss of $2.9 million.
Japanese company Inpex Ltd is expected to choose either Western Australia or the Northern Territory to host the $12 billion liquefied natural gas plant in two months, as it prepares for further drilling in the Darwin Habour.
Babcock & Brown Communities Group and Babcock & Brown Wind Partners Group, which both hold assets in Western Australia, have reported skyrocketing full year net profits today.
Fortescue Metals Group Ltd and its chief executive Andrew Forrest will head to court in April next year to fight claims made by the corporate watchdog.
Premier Alan Carpenter's election pledge to legislate a uranium ban may cost the country some $200 million in investment as one Canadian company considers a withdrawal from its Australian assets.
West Perth-based minerals explorer Altera Resources Ltd is set to change its focus and board after entering a $10 million scrip deal to acquire Clean Global Energy Pty Ltd which has access to intellectual property for underground coal gasification.
A loss in property revaluations has taken the shine off an increase in retail sales for Bedshed owner Joyce Corporation Ltd, which posted a net profit fall of 34 per cent for the 2008 financial year.
West Perth-based electrical engineering company LogiCamms Ltd has beaten its earnings forecasts by 18 per cent after booking a full year net profit after tax of nearly $2.9 million in its first year as a listed company.
A loss of over $9 million from its waste renewable division has impacted Perth-based engineering company GRD Ltd’s half-year earnings, which slumped to a loss of $438,000.
