Noel Dyson

ANOTHER ten WA firms have won WA Government support to help develop new products and technologies.

PLANS to hold a V8 Supercar Grand Prix in Perth have been refused by council.

PERTH-based Hypertrade has signed an alliance agreement with Accountants Global Network International Ltd.

THE Australian Securities and Investments Commission has launched Australia’s first free company alert service through the Internet.

A MAJOR overhaul of the WA Government’s contracting system is expected to benefit small and regional businesses.

THE Supreme Court has denied three of the four points raised in action by the City of Fremantle over Heritage Minster Graham Kierath’s ruling on the former CBH silos.

INSTEAD of marching down St George’s Terrace to beard Premier Richard Court in his den over the resumption of land in East Perth, Perth City Councillors have instead met with him on their own turf.

AN ITALIAN-Australian businesswomen’s association is being set up in WA.

DISCOUNTING can work, particularly if you are discounting with someone else’s money, says Austwide Resources principal Jeff Miles.

WA’S olive growing industry will have come of age when the management companies behind the plantations float on the stock exchange, says Australian Olives director Tim Myers.

A PERTH man has turned a labour of love into his own business.

PLAN B Financial Services, a new name in financial planning in WA, has been unveiled by Premier Richard Court at a Matilda Bay function.

PERTH will gain a 19,000 seat rugby and soccer stadium as part of the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre.

A FRENCH scientist believes techniques he has developed for medical imaging could be applied successfully to undersea exploration.

DURING his seven years as Freehill Hollingdale and Page managing partner, Peter Mansell has seen the firm go from strength to strength.

WITH the demise of the Heineken Golf Classic at the Vines Resort, at least two other golf events have indicated interest in filling the breach.

A PLAN to install pedestrian barriers on the eastern concourse of the City Railway Station has been slammed by council.

THIS year’s Business Opportunities and Franchise Expo will include a one-stop GST solution shop.

PLANS to cut the number of cars in the CBD are affecting development applications.

AUSTRALIA’S largest home-owned pizza chain has announced plans to increase the number of its outlets in WA.

THE City of Bayswater is spearheading the drive to establish suburban Perth’s first community bank.

A COMPANY is offering to organise conventions and meetings – for free.

GETTING a golf course development off the ground should become easier with the creation of the International Golf Course Architects, Designers and Builders Association.

A PUSH to bring quality assurance to WA farmers is bearing mixed fruit.

A LOVE of the backstage side of productions during school days has led to twenty-seven years in Perth’s audio visual industry.

PREVENTION is definitely better than cure, say the people behind the St John of God Healthcare Subiaco Health Assessment Service.

WA HAS increased its market share of business migration in the first half of this financial year.

ALONG with the shortlisting of two consortiums to build the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre and a performing arts space, two sites are still in the running.

COUNCIL wants to know what city residents want to happen in their community.

THE Small Business Development Corpora-tion is pushing the field office advisory visits run by the Australian Tax Office.

PERTH City Councillors – all nine of them – are taking their fight over Arden Street to Premier Richard Court.

THE successful advancement of the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre has been the biggest event for the Perth Convention Bureau to date according to PCB managing director Owen Cook.