Noel Dyson

HIGH yield shoppers are moving away from shopping centres and turning to strip shopping, a KPMG report has found.

AFTER five years of research and development, a Perth imaging company is on the verge of cornering the 3D television market.

FACED with a dying business sector and growing crime rate, the City of Gosnells has embarked on a $80 million revamp of Gosnells Town Centre.

DUE to Y2K concerns, there will be no trading or settlement on the Australian Stock Exchange on 31 December 1999.

DOMESTIC tourism is set to get a boost from an initiative encouraging Australians to holiday at home rather than choosing to travel overseas.

• COUNCILLOR Bert Tudori has been censured yet again, this time for disrupting a recent informal ‘briefing meeting’.

THANKS to a WA company, some South African villages will be connected to telephones for the first time.

WA EXPORTERS could benefit from the Asian emergence of giant super markets known as hypermarkets.

WESTPAC has entered the e-commerce arena with the launch of its eMarket online shopping directory.

DEVELOPERS beware. It appears simply meeting the Perth City Council’s legal planning requirements are no longer enough.

AN INTERNATIONAL program aimed at improving fraud prevention in the Asia Pacific region is being run out of Perth.

RAC Insurance, WA police and a number of metropolitan councils have joined forces with Crime Stoppers to raise community awareness and involvement in the program.

As 2000 draws closer, businesses will find technical help difficult to find, with software suppliers and special-ists under-resourced, says Sybiz Software’s Sevva Nelson.

ABOUT 17 per cent of WA small businesses are not keeping proper records, a twelve month Australian Securities and Investments Com-mission program has found.

WHILE no longer opposing the GST, Federal Opposition Leader Kim Beazley still has concerns.

STRINGENT hygiene and state-of-the-art technology have helped WA’s Golden Egg Farms crack the Hong Kong egg product market.

SINGAPORE has become only the second country to be given a Y2K ‘all-green rating’ by one of the world’s leading Y2K watchdogs – the Global 2000 Coordinating Group.

SMALL businesses are likely to be hit with GST compliance costs forty times those of big businesses.

RETAILERS and their advisers have been put on notice by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

BGC received three high commendations in the recent Master Builders’ Excellence in Construction Awards.

A BUNBURY District Police plan to reduce crime against local businesses and improve information flow between business and police is to become a statewide program.

MINISTRY for Culture & the Arts director general Ricky Burges has assured the Perth City Council the Perth Theatre Trust did exist.

AD AGENCY JDA has won the first Lion to be awarded to a WA agency at the 1999 Cannes International Advertising Awards. The Keep Australia Beautiful Coun-cil commercial, featuring the devastating effect litter has on wildlife, won a bronze Lion.

AUSTRALIA’S first hands-on management training program for franchised new motor vehicle dealers and their staff has been launched by the Chamber of Automotive Industries of WA.

THE Westralia Airports Corporation is providing $5 million to help develop WA’s economy.

MOVES to abolish the Town Planning Appeals Tribunal has the legal fraternity concerned.

THE Australian Tax Office has disallowed more than $6 billion in losses claimed over the past three years by a variety of entities – some owned by wealthy individuals.

MARKETFORCE and JDA have dominated the winners list in this year’s Perth Art Directors’ Club Awards.

REPRESENTATIVES of the shires of Bridgetown/Greenbushes, Manjimup and Nannup claim the National Party is “betraying” the communities they represent.

A PERTH company has developed a system it claims will maximise returns from sponsorships.

The ten toughest questions asked in an interview have been compiled by recruitment firm Monster.com.au to help interviewees be better prepared.

DESPITE a report recommending shops be allowed to remain open from 6:00am to 9:00pm, with a total deregulation of shopping hours in five years time, it is unlikely trading hours will change.