Small-medium enterprise investor Greencap Ltd has acquired two businesses in a scrip and cash deal worth $19 million while it plans to raise over $7 million through a share placement.
Civil construction company Brierty Ltd has posted a full-year net loss of $1.3 million after downgrading its profit twice in its first year of listing on the stock market.
The Carpenter government is working on a rescue package to stop the closure of some of the state's rural rail network, owned by embattled Babcock & Brown, but will not bail out the entire network.
Balcatta-based clean energy technology group Orbital Corporation Ltd has confirmed plans to continue to expand in aligned business sectors after today announcing a $500,000 net annual profit.
Miner Mincor Resources Ltd has reported a 36 per cent fall in net profit for the 2008 financial year to $64 million on the back of lower nickel prices.
Wesfarmers Ltd's share price slumped today after it announced a 33 per cent increase in net profit for the year ending June 2008 of just over $1 billion but a fall in earnings per share.
Engineering company Clough Ltd has turned around its 2007 financial year loss into a net profit of $67 million while its order book stands at $1.2 billion.
Falling commodity prices have hit Perth-based miner Perilya Ltd which will halve ore production at its Broken Hill operation in South Australia and cut 440 jobs.
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Electricity generation hopeful Western Energy is a step closer to bringing its Kwinana power station proposal to fruition, after West Perth-based CTEC signed on to engineer, procure and construct the facility.
Indonesian media and culture scholar, Krishna Sen, has been appointed to lead The University of Western Australia's faculty of arts, humanities and social sciences.
Vietnam was once billed as Asia's next economic tiger, but double-digit inflation, a ballooning trade gap, tumbling share prices and banking sector concerns have dampened expectations to a large degree.
ANZ Bank has appointed Megan Carter to its West Perth Business Centre as a relationship manager. Ms Carter has previous experience at both BankWest and Netfin.
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
Alliance Resources Ltd Patric Mutz will join the board as independent non-executive director. Bauxite Resources Ltd Daniel Tenardi has been appointed managing director.
Fremantle's Queen Victoria Street has long been home to an assortment of car dealerships and retailers, but plans to allow high-density development along the strip could lead to a redevelopment of the entire area.
Mining hospitality and accommodation provider Auzcorp will develop a $45 million, 136-room hotel in Tom Price after being selected as the preferred bidder under the government's Landbank program.
Western Australia will need to make significant investments upgrading electricity infrastructure to meet the federal government's mandatory renewable energy target, as the true cost of the scheme begins to emerge.
The reporting season has kicked off with some cheery results from the likes of Bradken, WorleyParsons and United Group, setting a strong pace for the local profit season.
Reforms to the 457 visa scheme may have helped to alleviate the backlog of applications, but workers hoping to relocate permanently are facing longer waiting periods, according to data from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship.
The resources boom is helping to feed pay packets across Western Australia, with the state recording the highest increase in wages over the past year as average mining sector salaries pushed past $100,000 for the first time.
Western Australia might be home to the nation's richest man and awash with riches amassed from property and mining booms, but that doesn't necessarily translate into funding for online businesses.
At the height of the tech boom almost a decade ago it would have been laughable to suggest that one of Western Australia's most successful internet entrepreneurs would offer local weather information to fishermen.
At just two and half years out of school, it would be easy to think Paul Slee, as part of an increasingly wired generation, is the right age to be running an online business.
