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The catering industry is so competitive at the moment that even wineries are getting in on the act.

A small Western Australian interior design firm has been in the spotlight recently after winning several prestigious awards.

Mirvac Fini has sold 110 apartments off the plan in The Point project in Mandurah, moving $150 million worth of real estate in four days.

The State Government is offering the 2.48-hectare Old Swanbourne Hospital site in Mt Claremont for sale by public tender.

Benchmark Projects, project manager of the Mandurah Ocean Marina, has won the Western Australian section of the national Australian Institute of Project Management awards.

The whispers are growing louder – are some of the world’s most iconic fashion brands coming to Perth? Marsha Jacobs knows where to find the answers.

Just as luxury goods retailers are coy about who their clients are, retail leasing agents are equally coy about which brand name stores are considering a move to Perth.

As the state’s economy surges into unchartered prosperity, Western Australians are reaping the benefits of a bumper past few years and indulging their love for the good life.

For those who have recently had their bottom squeezed for 20-plus hours in economy flying to the UK to ease the squeeze on the company’s bottom line, relief is at hand. It’s called premium economy.

Construction on the CBD’s biggest retail development, at 100 St Georges Terrace, will begin in January next year.

NICK Tana’s Australian Fast Foods, which runs the Chicken Treat and Red Rooster food chains, has reported a strong 48 per cent increase in net profit to $5.6 million for the year to June 2005.

Nearly 14,000 Western Australian are estimated to have travelled to Melbourne for last month’s AFL grand final, and from the tumbleweeds blowing down the terrace it’s safe to assume a lot of those were business people.

Once labelled an airline of last resort, the born-again Air New Zealand has now become a frontrunner on Australia-New Zealand-US routes with a starkly different product at the cutting edge of industry trends.

Sailing aboard Star Flyer (right) is an experience to be savoured, like a fine champagne – slowly, almost subliminally.

Explore Holidays is offering a $400 per person saving on all Canadian-based ‘Personalised Touring’ programs booked for travel in April 2006.

Need a break? Work taking over and your partner has just about had it? Here are a couple of special places that will help to restore peace and tranquillity in your life – at least for a few days.

The resignation from state cabinet of Bob Kucera may well provide a boost for young Liberal leader Matt Birney, but it signals just how difficult we make it for our politicians to be normal these days.

Last week’s bagging of junior minister Bob Kucera’s scalp wasn’t a day too soon for Liberal leader Matt Birney, since a consensus was emerging within party ranks that, while he’d made a fairly good start in February, little had happened since to cheer up

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Ten of Northbridge’s best-known restaurants are set for a culinary cook off as this month’s Northbridge Festival builds to a climax.

October is the time to break out the lederhosen, grab your favourite stein, and sway along to the traditional sounds of an Oompa band during Oktoberfest.

CLAREMONT’S Bay View Terrace remains at the vanguard of prime retail shopping strips in Perth, outside of the CBD, and is the only Western Australian location to make it into the top 15 strips in Australia, according to a study undertaken by CB Richard El

Robert Spadaccini has gone from success to success since establishing his home building company in 1997.

Don't know your single malts from your blends? Then perhaps the Whiskeys of the World Tasting at The Globe Restaurant is for you.

Western Australia’s best-cleaned sites were honoured in the 2005 Golden Service Awards, the building services industry’s premier recognition of excellence.

The planned merger of Curtin and Murdoch universities highlights the major changes facing Western Australia’s higher education sector. WA Business News convened a boardroom forum to discuss the current issues and future outlook for the state’s public universities.

Curtin University’s council and Murdoch University’s senate have been forced to defer meetings scheduled for this week to make an official decision on their merger because of delays with a merger feasibility report.

The shortage of skilled labour has affected most industries in Western Australia, and universities are no exception.

Western Australia’s universities have called on the State Government to take a more strategic role in guiding and supporting development of the sector.

Australia's universities are highly competitive, especially in their pursuit of research dollars, yet some of the best research occurs when they collaborate.

As many businesses consider new ways of supporting university training in light of Western Australia’s growing skills crisis, the Fogarty Foundation is one organisation already doing something.

John Howard is one of the canniest politicians in the business and his proposed reform of industrial relations has his textbook approach written all over it.