Marie Stoner, scientific director of bio-medical company Clinical Cell Culture (C3), has grown her once hospital laboratory into an extremely profitable operation which could soon float on the stock exchange.
THE North West Shelf liquefied natural gas venture is one step closer to securing a 25-year contract to supply an annual three million tonnes of LNG to China’s first receiving terminal in Guangdong province.
INVESTOR interest in the smaller end of the market has meant a bullish start to the year for some brokers.Brokerage turnover for Tolhurst Noall in the first four trading days of this month exceeded figures for the whole of December 2001.
BARRINGTON Estate, owner of Margaret River’s Hayshed Hill winery, has moved to dispel speculation about the national wine group’s financial health in the wake of last year’s failed merger attempt with the ailing Hotham Wines.
QUESTE Communications is proposing to buy up almost 20 per cent of Anzoil in a deal which includes an 8 per cent $500,000 loan to the oil and gas junior with South-East Asian interests.
THE founder and CEO of Amcom Telecommunications Ltd, Andy McLean, has assumed the position of managing director/CEO of AmcomIP1. Eddy Lee will step into Mr McLean’s shoes at Amcom.
DESPITE last year’s $4 billion operating profit, Telstra will introduce a $150 fee for mobile phone customers wishing to change to another phone company.
IT is difficult to know which of the two prospective partners would’ve been more disappointed, at the time, by the failure of merger negotiations between Hotham Wines and Barrington Estate.
A RECENT wave of interest in concepts such as the triple bottom line and civic leadership has some organisations looking for ways to justify and measure this new social business responsibility.
PERTH-BASED Anvil Mining has enjoyed a good run on the charts over summer, but this week soared appreciably within an hour of the release of a broker’s report.
ONE Nation party faithful mourned the loss this week of founding leader Pauline Hanson, after she quit the party to focus her attention on upcoming court battles for fraud.
A REPORT on proposals to alter the building law is poised to ensure equitable access to all new buildings for those people with disabilities, older Australians and for parents with prams.
CARVING a niche in the world of Internet copy writing promised to bring in the money for the 26-year-old WA businesswoman, when Business News spoke to her early last year.
TWO adjoining buildings at the western end of St Georges Terrace are being offered to the market by Knight Frank, a move the agency believes will test the CBD property market for the first time in 2002.
ENTERTAINMENT venues that trade beyond 1am will be required to install closed circuit television cameras under a new policy which came into effect last week.
WHILE alumina and aluminium refinery workers around the world have been shown the door by the major producers as they battle to cut back production, a similar fate is unlikely to await WA refinery workers, thanks to ongoing efficiency gains.
THE South West Development Commission will officially launch the Moorditj Aboriginal Art Exhibition tomorrow as part of a plan to boost the South West Aboriginal art industry.
Freehold land, public and private property, citizens’ rights and the Crown :an historian looks at the Westminster System by Professor Leslie R. Marchant
THE terrorist attacks in the US on September 11 will mark the year 2001 in the history books for generations to come.The tragic loss of life in the US and the war on terrorism
TENSIONS in the Middle East heightened with two suicide bombings rocking Israel. The suicide bombings – in Jerusalem and the northern port city of Haifa – resulted in numerous citizen casualties.
