Since drifting into the beauty industry in her late teens, Le Beau Skin and Body Management founder Karen Skewes has been a trailblazer in the local day spa industry.
Investment group Babcock & Brown has entrenched its position as the biggest private sector player in energy generation in Western Australia after agreeing to buy 100 per cent of the AlintaAGL business.
A new centre for nanochemistry research linking Curtin University, the University of Western Australia and Murdoch University has been launched, four years after the concept was proposed.
Western Australia's not-for-profit housing providers are about to benefit from a major policy shift by the state government in relation to public housing.
Like many Western Australian financial services firms, Subiaco-based Keysbrook Financial Services has felt the flow-on effects of the state's booming economy.
A small group of Perth investors who continue to support the unfashionable biotechnology sector are hoping that patience will prove to be a virtue, just like for the mining investors who stuck to their guns during the tech boom and are now reaping the rew
Applications for small bar licences are continuing to trickle through to the Department of Racing, Gaming and Liquor, with the authority registering its 10th application.
As Liberal parliamentarians and power brokers assess the polls, which all point to electoral demise and thus “wall-to-wall” Labor governments for the first time ever, some have begun to suspect that November 24 will bring utter devastation.
Two men who have been quietly working away on an iron ore explorer in Western Australia's Mid West must have some empathy for tech sector businesses seeking to raise money.
Their clients have been enjoying the share market spoils for a few years now, but Alan and Kylie Brierty's decision to float the mining and civil contracting business they founded 26 years ago happened more by chance.
Glencore International AG has lifted its stake in Minara Resources Ltd from 52.2 per cent to 53 per cent through the purchase of a further 4.4 million shares in the company at a cost of $26 million.
Indonesia should be firmly in the sights of Western Australia's mining industry, with the country's economic growth rate approaching those of China and India, according to Austrade senior trade commissioner, Rod Morehouse.
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
WA's peak business body, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA, estimates the state will need an extra 40,000 workers each year during the next 10 years to fulfil demand for jobs.
Western Australia's building and construction industry has raised concerns for the viability of some projects if a federal Labor government abolishes the Australian Building and Construction Commission, a recent survey by the Master Builders Association o
PERTH-BASED engineering firm, GRD Minproc Ltd, has won the premier's award for excellence at this year's WA Industry and Export Awards, held last week.
Rising feedstock prices and a lack of government support are threatening to derail the Western Australian biofuels industry, with the state's biggest biodiesel player suspending production at its two facilities.
AN $11 million research collaboration designed to unlock stranded offshore oil and gas reserves through improved subsea pipeline design was launched in Perth last week.
Takeover target Consolidated Minerals Ltd's search for the mystery owners of 17.7 per cent of their issued capital advanced today, with the company identifying the owners of a 5.7 per cent stake as Ukranian investors unrelated to Palmary Enterprises.
The Western Australian Club has retained its St Georges Terrace home, downsizing its presence in the heritage building it recently sold to a scale that it says better matches its revenue.
Agriculture and Food Minister Kim Chance has called on Australian companies to undertake independent performance trials before recommending genetically modified crops as a viable alternative to Western Australian farmers.
