Gary Kleyn

HOUSING approvals figures released for the period to June have indicated a deep slump that was a lot worse than had been forecast.

THE perceived threat of the Internet to shopping centres often mooted by industry players is not warranted, Woolworths CEO and managing director Roger Corbett told a recent Securities Institute luncheon.“There’s lots of talk about there being clicks...

ONLINE recruitment poses both an enormous threat and wonderful opportunity for recruitment agencies, according to one of Perth’s biggest industry players.Bell Personnel director David Anderson said the traditional ‘offline’ recruitment industry woul...

AN ADVERTISEMENT for a “bunch of camels with their equipment and a trailer” was enough to start 18 year old Romy Campbell-Hicks in business.Dunsborough-based Ms Camp-bell-Hicks had just returned from an overseas holiday and started a degree in trave...

THE WA Government’s urban renewal program, New Living, has won the United Nations World Habitat Award.The $320 million program defeated five international finalists.Housing Minister Kim Hames said New Living enabled more than 2,000 individuals or ...

PLANS by Monteath Properties to build residential apartments on its Northbank property in Fremantle following the collapse of the proposed Ramada hotel complex could hold up development at the site for months, according to City of Fremantle urban mana...

PERTH architectural firm Cox Howlett & Bailey Woodland has been awarded a $100 million urban renewal project in Darwin following a national design competition involving five of Australia’s leading architecture firms.

IT IS nearly eight years since Lyndon Rowe took the top job at WA’s top employer organisation – the Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

THE Warren Blackwood Development Plan is being prepared in consultation with the local community, industry and businesses.

A POST-GST checklist has been released for small businesses.

WALPOLE has found it easier to communicate with the outside world after the local community and the South West Development Commission obtained funds for the construction of a communications mast.

THE consumer price index rose 0.8 per cent during the June quarter according to new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

East Perth releaseTHE first mixed-use lots at Royal Street in East Perth will be released to the market by tender in September. The lots are located within East Perth’s Foundry development

TWO offshore oil and gas field contracts worth more than $38 million have been secured by Perth-based Clough Engineering.

LANDOWNERS who believe they will be treated unfairly by the State Government’s proposed Bushplan may have to resort to common law for compensation, according to Minter Ellison partner Glen McLeod.

PERTH people will have a chance to view the proposals from the three main bidders for the Perth Convention and Entertainment Centre from August 10.

TAX-loss selling and ‘window dressing’ have contributed to the recent strong performance of the listed property trust sector, according to a monthly report by Property Investment Research into the industry.

A SOUTH West Transport Advisory Group has been established by the South West Development Commission Board to review progress towards providing better transport links to the region.

A FOCUS on increasing business value and reducing costs has helped Western Power record an after tax profit of $154 million for 1999-2000.

Four things make a wine investment scheme more attractive to investors, according to Watershed project manager and Garton Smith & Barrett partner Geoff Barrett.

WA-BASED computer games retailer Games ’R’ Us Australia has launched a public share offer to raise $3.5 million to fund the next stage of its expansion program.

PROPERTY developer Australand Holdings Limited will continue to be a major investor in the WA property market, according to WA general manager Nick Perrignon.

RESOURCES Development Minister Colin Barnett has congratulated Worsley Alumina on the completion of the billion dollar expansion of its alumina refinery at Worsley in the South West.

WOOLWORTHS’ plan for a $15 million supermarket, retail and recreation facility on Murray Street Mall has received Perth City Council blessing.

WA’S booming wine industry has led to what is believed to the biggest leasing deal executed in Perth’s industrial market over the past two years, according to Chesterton International director of industrial sales and leasing Ben Davies.

STRONG economic growth has boosted imports of forest products.In the first three quarters of 1999-2000, forest products imports were 11 per cent higher than the corresponding period in 1998-99.

IN RESPONSE to demand by Perth’s business community, Business News is going weekly from August 3.

OFFICE vacancies in the City of Perth defied industry predictions of a tightening in vacancy rates to remain unchanged at 11 per cent, according to the Property Council of Australia’s office market report.

A NUMBER of initiatives for the Goldfields were unveiled at a WA Cabinet meeting held in Kalgoorlie earlier this month.

AMCOM Telecommunications has announced the appointment of Akram Sabbagh as national sales and marketing manager.

DEVELOPER Monteath Properties’ $80 million Ramada riverfront Hotel development at Fremantle has been scrapped.

CPA Australia has called on accounting standard-setters to turn their attention to the not-for-profit sector, including charities, nursing homes, universities, churches and political parties.