Staff Reporters

PAIN Gone is a remarkable new technology based on the age old principle of acupuncture and a technique known as Transcutaneous Nerve Stimulation (TNS) to relieve pain suffered from a myriad of complaints.

WISHLIST.com.au has launched the first Australian web site dedicated to corporate gift giving.

JOHN Davis Advertising has won accounts for Perth Zoo, Mount Hospital and Clairault Wines, beating submissions from Vinten Browning, MJB&B and Bowtell, Clarke and Yole.JDA general manager Julian Donaldson said there would be a synergy between this acco

QUALITY has been a central part of organisational strategy for many years, dating back at least to Deming’s work in Japan after the Second World War and is a central construct in a long-term research program being undertaken at the University of Western A

AUSTRALIAN Competitive Energy (ACE) will soon launch what could prove to be the most powerful, on-line business-to-business tool the oil, gas and downstream processing industry has experienced.

THE State Government continues to be very concerned about the effect of ongoing petrol price rises and their impact on everyone in the State, from families to businesses.

TUSCAN cooking revolves around the hearth or roasting spit (Girarrosto) – the common name for a multitude of restaurants where chickens, suckling kids, pork and game are loaded perpetually on the large spits that hold the centre of attention.

THE entrepreneurial skills of Perth-based Aquarius Platinum Limited have been aptly demonstrated with the establishment of an alliance to more than double platinum base metals production in South Africa.

A PLAN to demolish two old homes at 47 and 51 Malcolm Street, West Perth was approved by the Perth City Council at its August 22 meeting.

IS your business looking for a software solution that will automatically document and link all correspondence and client information, as well as help you manage projects? If the answer is yes, new IntelliFACTOR is the solution.

WESTEL Group Limited’s subsidiary Concentrix Pty Ltd has signed an agreement with major Australian telecommunications carrier ComVergent Telecommunications.The agreement will provide ComVergent with access to Westel’s phone number portability solutions

RESOURCES giant Rio Tinto has struck back at diamond dealer DeBeers’ plans to force the Argyle Diamond Mine back into its Central Selling Organisation.

EVER had one of those pounding headaches? Before you dope yourself up with some aspirin or other pain reliever, consider a natural alternative.

AN Australian Securities and Investments Commission survey of online trading web sites outlined some consumer protection and disclosure issues that need to be addressed by the industry.

THE MORE agile you are, the better you will succeed in e-business.This was the key point made at Cisco Systems’ recent E-day Business E-fficiency Forum in Perth, according to Cisco Systems small and medium business development manager Peter Ambrose...

THERE is no doubt the judges at the 23rd Sheraton WA Wine Awards on Tuesday night were impressed by exhibits from the lesser-sized wineries because the 2000 event was basically a small winemakers’ show.At a presentation dinner in the new Grand River...

WHEN the Argyle diamond operation started mining in 1983 it introduced 25 million carats into a market which was producing 50 million carats.The world was dismayed. This meant Argyle needed a structured approach to marketing.Argyle identified Ind...

WA-based Sage Australia has signed its first retail sales agreement with Harvey Norman Holdings to sell Sage’s range of accounting and business software through the nationwide chain.Sage Instant Accounting, Sage Line 50, Sagepos, and Sagepay are no...

THERE is an increasing interest in the fascinating foods of the great sub-continent of India, where almost half a billion people speak over a dozen major languages which are localised by more than 1500 dialects. Fifty different races make up the massi...

SONS OF Gwalia Limited plans a major expansion of the Greenbushes and Wodgina mines following successful negotiations with two of its major customers.During the quarter, negotiations with the company’s two major customers resulted in the execution ...

The company is discussing establishing networks in the USA, Europe and Asia.Pie Networks recently installed 130 pieLINKS into the Victorian health system.It finished last financial year with a strong cash position and a profit and loss result th...

THE world’s first fully dedicated Olympic business venue, the Business Club Australia business centre, in Sydney’s Darling Harbour, has been opened by Minister for Trade Mark Vaile.Mr Vaile said the centre would be the central point from which Austr...

MOST ADVERTISING agencies in Perth have resisted changing their charging structures, says Rob Mitchell Advertising director Rob Mitchell.“In recent years, the whole way agencies are renumerated has come under closer scrutiny from clients,” Mr Mitch...

AUSTRALASIAN Gold Mines NL has given the green light to a project to commission a pilot mining and treatment operation at its Dalgaranga tantalum project in WA by October.The Perth-based company has completed a study to establish a pilot operation, ...

STEVE Fitton is one busy chap these days.Since taping of Channel Nine’s Initial Reaction began nine weeks ago, he has recorded 10 episodes each weekend while continuing his role as a drive time announcer with 96FM during the week.He has been cr...

AUSTRALIA is at the forefront of wine growing, making and packaging technology and a recent breakthrough keeps our country’s wine industry at the head of the pack.In a world wine industry first, Australia’s BRL Hardy has developed a commercially via...

PERILYA Limited has reported high-grade intercepts on two of its base metal tenements in South Australia and Malaysia, with exploration underpinned by record gold production from its Fortnum underground gold mine in Western Australia.In its June qua...

WA-based independent information technology outsourcing company ASG Limited is the new parent company for Amcon Solutions.The company has established a new board of directors and appointed Hartley Poynton to advise it on capital raising options, in...

HAN’S Café has launched a new web site at www.hanscafe.com.auThe franchise was founded by Ian Han in January 1995, when the first restaurant opened in Murray Street, Perth.There are now nine Han’s Cafes in Perth. The most recent launch was Han’s C...

THE fundamentals of the gold market clearly supported a higher price, this year and in the future, according to Newmont chairman and CEO Ronald Cambre.The basis of his argument is that record consumption in 1999 was seven per cent above the previous...

THIS week’s launch of Professor Frank Crowley’s biography of Sir John Forrest is especially timely as we head towards the celebration of the Centenary of Federation.Launched on the 153rd anniversary of the birthday of our State’s first Premier, the...

THE DEPARTMENT of Commerce and Trade’s WA Office in Mumbai, India, operates very much like a matchmaking service for bilateral trade, says regional director Walter Joseph.“I don’t think many people realise the vast amount of assistance Commerce an...