Westonia Mines Ltd has blamed the rising Australian dollar for its inability to finalise a $65 million-plus loan for its namesake gold project, but insisted the project still has a future.
Wine merchant and Wavenet chairman Mick Stroud plans to have his Big Island Brewery business listed on the Australian Stock Exchange by June 11 following an initial public offering that will value the company at $20.5 million.
Face-to-face fundraising, where charity workers wield a clipboard instead of rattling a tin, seeking your credit card number instead of cash, is a rich source of funds for Western Australian not-for-profit groups.
Law firm Freehills is looking to expand its intellectual property and technology practice in Perth after recruiting Minter Ellison special counsel David Stewart and his two support staff.
Western Australia's largest private parking and security provider, Wilson, is trialling in Cottesloe new technology it hopes will expand its operations as economic conditions create a shortage of parking bays.
Last month's announcement by former Fremantle Labor MHR, Carmen Lawrence, that she intends to return to academe raises an interesting triple-headed historical question.
Like many other Western Australians, I enjoy wines from the state. Admittedly, my loyalty to WA-only products has waned over the years as I have learned to appreciate that our winemakers have some worthy competition elsewhere around the globe.
The 2007 harvest has been a welcome relief for grape producers in WA, with unexpected sales to east coast operators easing the burden of oversupply. But the glut is yet to be fully overcome.
Great Southern Ltd has rejected claims from the Wine Grape Growers' Australia that the grape glut that crippled many players in the industry during 2005 and 2006 would return to haunt the sector within five years.
The grape glut may have created headaches for many players in the WA wine industry, but it has provided enormous opportunity for South West producer Stella Bella Wines Pty Ltd, which has plans to build a cellar door not too far from Leeuwin Estate.
Rob Mann is one of a handful of Western Australian winemakers lucky enough to get his hands on some cuttings of pinot gris – a white wine style growing in popularity with wine drinkers in Europe and the US.
Just about all of Vanya Cullen's Margaret River neighbours have produced lower-than-average grape crops this year after weather conditions in 2005 and 2006 left vines bearing smaller grapes and smaller bunches.
The Town of Vincent plans to seek formal expressions of interest from developers for a proposed $650 million mixed-use redevelopment of two hectares of rare land in Leederville.
Cape Bouvard Developments is confident the continued strength of the local commercial market will vindicate its decision to hold off from chasing an anchor tenant for its proposed $100 million project on Mounts Bay Road.
Parking and security player, Wilson Parking, has bought its fourth Western Australian security agency in two years with the purchase of Shelf Security in Dampier, one of the north-west's largest security agencies.
The Western Australian entrepreneurs who have created the most wealth in the non-mining sector are led by people who spent most of their business life running private companies before opting for a sharemarket float.
The iron ore boom has underpinned the enormous wealth of Fortescue Metals Group Ltd managing director Andrew Forrest, and it has also boosted the wealth of some of Western Australia's most famous families.
There may be a host of rags-to-riches tales among the executives enjoying the share price spoils of their publicly listed entities, but it's a storyline that also extends to the private sector.
WA Business News' Wealth Creators may be sitting on enormous fortunes, but that wealth is predominately on paper. And while the stock market can push the value of an individual's shareholding up, it can just as easily make the wealth disappear.
The resources boom has swelled the job books for many of the country's engineering firms, which in turn has lifted company profits and share prices and lined the pockets of some of the industry's long-serving executives.
Fortescue Metals Group Ltd boss Andrew Forrest laid the groundwork for his current wealth four years ago this month when he negotiated a deal with Allied Mining & Processing.
