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WHAT a strange place Australia is.

WA Business News’ 40under40 Awards is not about first and last, it is not about creating tallies, scoreboards, or runnersup.

The infamous ‘tech wreck’ of March 2000 could not stop the infant dot.com business aussiehome.com from surviving and achieving success.

From beginnings as a one-man operation in 1992, Carmelo Princiotto has built his business, Jamel Industries, into one of WA’s largest domestic furniture manufacturers, specialising

HERE are the first three paragraphs from an article in a local newspaper (Western Suburbs Weekly) that reached letterboxes around February 4.

This year’s 40under40 winners are testimony to the diverse nature that is business in WA.

Neil Hancock founded Portacom in his family garage in 1984 while just 21 years of age.

With around 15 years of accountancy experience under his belt, Vincent Smith is a specialist in the field of insolvency and corporate reconstruction.

THE past few weeks have brought good news to about 20 steel fabricators around Perth. Engineering firm Monadelphous has been progressively sub-contracting $30 million worth of work for BHP Billiton’s Area C iron ore mine and port expansion projects.

AS president and chief financial officer of CustomVis, Dr William Ardrey is a leader in Perth’s biotechnology field.

As managing director of junior mining company Sally Malay Mining Limited, Peter Harold has navigated the company through some uncertain times.

Armed with a single power saw, nail bag, some borrowed materials and plenty of ambition, registered builder Pedro Turibaka began work on his first construction site, a small East Pe

OVER the past two years, Western Australian companies have been awarded contracts worth more than $1.7 billion on big mining and resource processing projects.

Russell Barnett has worked for some of WA’s most renowned broking houses.

In three years Anthony Hasluck has created a number of PR and design-based consultancies that have made Clarity Communications one of the fastest growing consultancies in WA.

At 29 years of age, and with a newborn baby and a two-year old, Dr Neda Meshgin Varan decided she wanted to run her own medical practice.

BASSENDEAN firm Specialised Welding is one of many local firms to have worked on Woodside’s $1.6 billion Train Four project. However, its client was not Woodside. Instead it was the Japanese pump manufacturer Nikisso.

Matt Birney, 33, is the youngest shadow minister in any State or Federal parliament in mainland Australia.

Since losing his mother and sister in a car accident at just seven years of age, Paul Hennessy has developed a desire to live life to its full and a tenacity to overcome adversity.

For the past 15 years Professor Duane Varan has balanced a lecturing career in both Perth and the US with consultancy work for the A-list in world commerce.

Our series on the virtual office continues with a look at the mobility technology is offering. Julie-anne Sprague reports.

Martin Black began his working life as a journalist and followed a common path into public relations. His creation of a chocolate factory, however, was an unusual career move.

Lianne Hulse has made her mark in an industry where it is difficult for non-professionals to own and operate businesses.

Capt Suzannah Vaughan, 30, got a taste for salt-water waves on board a Leeuwin training vessel in 1989.

WESTERN Australia’s media union is to campaign against the growing trend towards hidden advertorial as newspapers seek to survive in the highly competitive print market.

Must Winebar founder, director and executive chef, Russell Blaikie, is a leader in the hospitality arena.

Beacon Technology is a software development company that develops custom software to individual clients.

Dr Paul Watt’s research discoveries at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research laboratories have resulted in the formation of the institute’s first spin-off company, Phylog

THREE years after its inception the Midland Redevelopment Authority will release its first parcels of land.

Nathan Buzza started tinkering with computers while recuperating from a childhood illness, eventually teaching himself computer programming.

Going to the dentist isn’t many people’s idea of a fun day out, but Dr Fiona Kelly has created a dentistry business that has become cherished by the Geraldton community.

Graeme Yukich made the headlines in August last year following his decision to walk away from a successful 12-year career at Hartleys and to go his own way.