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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 2006 WA Business News 40under40 Awards program was launched at a breakfast forum featuring four high-profile past winners. Marsha Jacobs reports.

It seems to come around so quickly every year, but our search for the 40under40 has started already.

Market Equity managing director and shareholder Julie Beeck has had little time to take stock of things in the four years since she was named a winner in the inaugural WA Business News 40under40 Awards.

I had the pleasure of chairing a panel session for our recent Success & Leadership event, The Modern Entrepreneur in WA. The event kicked off the 2006 WA Business News 40under40 Awards by bringing together four previous winners from the program to discuss

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.

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.

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.

Last week, State Scene was fortunate to sneak a look at what could become Western Australia’s non-metropolitan lower house electoral boundaries at the 2009 election.

Big fish in Perth’s small corporate pond pay a high price when they move to deeper waters.

Boutique developer MATCH has been given approval to transform Perth’s first concrete and steel structure, designed in 1927 by Oldham, Boas & Ednie-Brown, into a heritage sensitive development consisting of 30 warehouse apartments and 39 terrace houses on

Having moved out of residential property development in favour of commercial property syndication 18 months ago, Access West is currently completing its sixth commercial syndicate.

Property investors who self-manage their properties have been warned they are at greater risk of experiencing problems with tenants and exposing themselves and their assets.

As spring quietly announces its presence the Perth food community is busy changing seasons, changing menus and preparing the subtle differences of spring and summer foods.

The recent annual Qantas Wine Show of Western Australia held in Mount Barker has received rave reviews.

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