Electricity retailer Synergy has emerged as the only one of the four disaggregated electricity corporations to exceed budget forecasts, reporting earnings before interest and tax of $64.9 million for the 2006-07 financial year.
Western Australia’s economic growth remains strong, with key measures of economic activity remaining well above historical trends and outstripping national growth.
The state’s buoyant economic conditions have resulted in increases in consumer spending, with low unemployment and rising personal incomes leading to strong consumer confidence.
Whether or not Kevin Rudd – Kevin07 during the campaign – takes Labor into power on November 24, nobody will ever be able to take from him that he has managed to make a very average mob look like winners.
Growth in the Western Australian residential property sector over the past year may not have reached the stellar heights of the 2004-06 period, but a double-digit return still points to the market’s continuing strength.
WEST Perth-based charity group United Way WA has appointed HBF Health Funds Inc chief executive Rob Bransby and Freehills partner Dan Dragovic to its board of trustees.
The skills shortage continues to affect the Western Australian workforce, with an all-time low unemployment rate and strong wage growth recorded for the past year.
Swick Mining Services Ltd managing director Kent Swick has decreased his direct an indirect interest in the drilling services company through the sale of 14 million shares for $19.8 million as part of
With the Australian dollar pushing through its previous ceiling against the US dollar in recent days, exporters are facing lower profit margins and analysts are speculating on the possibility of parity between the two currencies.
Western Australia’s tourism market picked up strongly in 2006 with an overall increase in visitors numbers and a combined spending surge of $5 billion breaking the all-time record.
THE number of Western Australian companies to have listed or plan to list on the Toronto Stock Exchange has risen to 19 after West Perth-based Monarch Gold Mining Company Ltd said it would list early
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 I
The Western Australian grain industry had its worst season since the 2002-03 drought, with poor conditions in most parts of the state forcing harvest receivals down.
HAVING narrowly survived an attempt to overthrow the board, PharmAust directors Bryant McLarty, Simon Owen and Henry Gulev face another shareholder battle in a fortnight when a motion to have the comp
The $7.3 million sale of the Brass Monkey in Northbridge last week to listed property trust ALE Property Group Ltd is the latest in a series of significant purchases in the hotel sector.
Strong growth in interstate and overseas migration helped lift Western Australia’s population by 2.1 per cent to 2,094,549 in the year to March 2007, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
THE Craigie High School site is the latest Western Australian school property to attract the interest of developers, with the land parcel the focus of a joint venture between the state government and
WA Business News’ third annual State Economic Review comes during a continuing period of prosperity for Western Australia, courtesy to a large extent of China’s accelerating economic growth.
CEDAR Woods Ltd has received simultaneous rezoning approval under local and state planning schemes for the final stages of its Rivergums estate in Baldivis, the first time dual rezoning has occurred f
Wesfarmers Ltd has appointed British supermarket baron and former Conservative Party MP, Archie Norman, as an adviser to develop a turnaround plan for the Coles Group Ltd businesses, particularly its
The City of Perth Heritage Appeal is challenging negative perceptions by launching two innovative programs and pushing the economic case for heritage preservation.
A new package of State Government industrial relations reforms will impose further red tape and regulation on WA businesses and increase employment costs, according to the WA Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Selling commonwealth land to property developers and using the funds to make housing interest payments tax deductible would be a good political decision for an incoming government, according to Satterley Property Group chief executive Nigel Satterley.
Perth-based health insurance and financial services player HBF has revealed a 36 per cent increase in underlying profitability, boosted by strong investment market returns.
