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TIM Treadgold is correct when he states that Xstrata’s primary corporate goal is to improve shareholder returns (WA Business News, December 9 2004).

Everyone seeks to be and be known as authentic. Very few are.

YOUR correspondent Tim Treadgold has put forward some interesting hypotheses to explain the delay in getting AEC’s prospectus over the line (Briefcase,

A DECADE in the hospitality business is good going by any measure, so former hotel broker Renzo Deleo must be doing something right.

JUST as the Federal Labor party rues its attempt to innovate with its leadership during the past year, we mustn’t lose sight of the need to experiment from time to time. Innovation is the key to survival and there must always be room to try new ways of t

THE old Mamma Maria’s restaurant on the corner of Lake and Aberdeen streets in Northbridge will reopen as Hunter’s Piano Bar in the coming months.

Developing research into a marketable product or service can be complex but the returns are great if all the right systems are in place as Julie-anne Sprague and David Gibson report.

THE Ullinger family will continue to operate Redgate Wines while founder Bill Ullinger recovers from a serious stroke he suffered about eight weeks ag

THE boom conditions on the Australian stock market in 2003 laid a solid foundation for 2004, with most broking firms reporting improved totals in the WA Business News 2004 equity capital raising survey.

FOR the second year running, Alinta was one of the most active companies in Western Australia, completing a series of deals that added to the size and diversity of its operations.

CANADIAN engineering giant Hatch appears to have won the biggest share of major contracting work in Western Australia in a year that was dominated by oil and gas, resources and the Perth to Mandurah railway.

PERTH was home to Australia’s largest private equity transaction of 2004 when heavy equipment supplier Emeco International was sold to GS Private Equity and Pacific Equity Partners (PEP) for a price believed to be about $450 million.

BUOYED by Western Australia’s thriving economy, the commercial property market performed better than expected in 2004.

WESTFIELD’S purchase of a half-share in Whitford City Shopping Centre for $192.5 million ranks as the largest property sale in Western Australia for 2004.

THAT there’s no shortage of things to do in the Margaret River region is news to no-one. What seems to be in short supply, however, is parking spots for the punters, and staff for the businesses they are visiting.

WARREN Mead is going ahead with plans for his latest restaurant, this one to be located at the ground floor of Exchange Plaza on St Georges Terrace.

MARGARET River’s newest boutique brewery, Colonial Brewing Co, has travelled a steep learning curve in recent months.

IAN Mayo has joined Plantagenet Wines as general manager.

“WELL, here we are again” were the words former prime minister Paul Keating uttered when announcing the 1996 Federal election he would lose to John Howard.

THE $1.86 billion sale of the Dampier to Bunbury natural gas pipeline has been judged by WA Business News to be the top business deal in Western Australia in 2004.

TWELVE senior artists have been honoured as State Living Treasures for their lifetime contribution to arts and culture.The treasures are:

AN awful lot has happened between editions of our newspaper but one thing has taken the headlines for almost that entire period – Asia’s tsunami.

WE support the State Opposition’s recent call for the Gallop Government to intervene in the strike by 140 construction workers who are attempting to cajole the employer of other c

THANK you for raising my concerns about mine safety in the article, ‘Boom warning on mine safety’, (WA Business News, December 16 2004).

SOME of Western Australia’s best-known companies were fundamentally changed as a result of the big corporate deals of 2004.

MICHAEL Chaney’s philanthropy rated highly in a recent survey undertaken by WA Business News.

WA Business News doesn’t consider itself a small business newspaper by any means, but a couple of things have happened this week to make me think it should be.

‘LandCorp and ‘affordability’

OWNER-OCCUPIERS and inves-tors are increasingly looking to the commercial sector as the capital growth in the residential market begins to plateau.

THE High Court has overturned a decision by Western Australia’s Full Supreme Court in relation to statutory compensation for property affected by plann

TIME, it seems, really does heal all wounds, with signs emerging that the investment world is gearing up for a second dose of dot.com mania.

VIRGINIA Willcock’s first overseas posting as a wine consultant was a true test of her passion, tenacity and commitment to the job.