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PERTH-BASED information technology company AutumnCare Systems has set out to capitalise on the significant growth expected in the aged care market over the next decade.

WHILE it’s too early to gauge the long-term prospects of subscriber-based online DVD rental companies, the increasing number of new players entering the market suggests strong support for the idea.

THE commercial success and popularity of a wine may ultimately hinge on the quality of what’s in the bottle but increasingly producers are looking to improve what goes on the bottle as well.

THE free trade agreement with the US is obviously the talking point this week.

NORTHBRIDGE wouldn’t seem the most obvious location for renowned chef Peter Manifis to open his latest restaurant venture.

GOUNDREY Wines last week completed bottling the first batch of its new label, Offspring, a wine that forms part of a 2004 product growth strategy for the Mt Barker-based winery.

Communications Australia named Siemens best dealerPERTH-based company Communications Australia has won Siemens’ Dealer of the Year award for 2002-03.

WHO holds the whip hand at Perth’s big law firms these days? Is it the senior partners who know the local clients, or the people in Sydney and Melbourne who set the financial targets?

THE national integration of Perth’s law firms has been occurring gradually for more than two decades, but has accelerated rapidly over recent years.

PERTH’S biggest law firms have been shrinking over the past decade while the smaller firms have been growing, leaving some pundits to suggest most law firms will end up looking remarkably similar.

ORGANIC chemists at newly formed start-up Epichem will commence drug discovery research from next week.

PERTH transport company Mitchell Corporation is poised for further expansion after securing a $10 million investment from AMP.

A popular development option in other parts of the country, built-form estates are starting to compete with traditional house and land packages in Western Australia, as Tracey Cook reports.

RESPONDING to the recent sales success of its first release of apartments in the Allegro residential tower, Mirvac Fini is moving quickly to release the second stage of The Peninsula to the property market and finally begin construction on site.

“It is a matter of planning and designing the buildings for the nearby activity or any risk.”

PRIVATELY-OWNED boutique property developer SC Land has released its plans for an exclusive ultra-luxury residential development on a prominent riverside Crawley block, formerly own

SAM Ward, a 27-year-old Edith Cowan University business student, was last week awarded the prize for Best Western Australian Blog.

SOMETIMES the simple things work the best. Just ask MJB&B managing director Craig Billings.

WHAT was conceived as a simple operation offering a couple of do-it-yourself barbecues and tapas-style food has become a five-star restaurant called Chesters of Heafod Glen.

David Pike has drawn big red circles around February 9 and 10 in his work diary, as that’s when the best of the world’s rieslings will be at Frankland Estate’s  international t

WORKERS’ compensation is such a minefield that it rarely raises a wrinkle on the public’s brow until there is a major catastrophe.

PETER Laurance’s Pivot Group is poised to start construction on a multi-million dollar office development in West Perth.

LAST June, Perth investor Barry Patterson surprised the market by staking $10 million to take a controlling stake in struggling office supplies company National 1.

SHAREHOLDERS in Jubilee Mines look set to receive another generous dividend payment after the WA nickel miner last week foreshadowed a “spectacular” half-year financial position.

FEW realise that the Senate’s Legal and Constitutional Standing Committee (L&CSC) is considering “the most appropriate process for moving towards the establishment of an Australian republic with an Australian Head of State”.

AFTER 17 years in the real estate game, most of it selling and leasing homes to overseas business executives and retired couples, a Perth businesswoman is taking a novel approach to business integration.

PROFESSIONAL indemnity insurance has become one of the most expensive forms of cover in the past two years and a major overhead for business.

THE sudden departure of long-serving Real Estate Institute of WA chief executive Michael Griffiths has sparked a call for a special general meeting of the institute and an explana

Following on from last week’s story on hand-held technology, Alison Birrane talks to some of the main movers in the sector in WA.

E-COMMERCE and multimedia firm Global iQ, which has carved out a niche by developing hand-held technology for use by property managers in the real estate industry, is now hatching p

THE early adoption of hand-held technology in the hospitality sector has been good news for Wangara-based developer and manufacturer PalmTEQ, which has undergone steady growth in re

WHILE The Water Corporation’s water restrictions might be causing headaches for local garden enthusiasts, they’ve created big business opportunities for a couple of Perth horticulturalists-turned-TV-stars.