Staff Reporters

Perth-based Orlando Resources NL is seeking to raise $5.25 million though an initial public offering in order to complete a pre-feasibility study, acquire and develop the Sally Malay and Springvale sulphide nickel projects, purchased outright from the...

Almost 80 per cent of Western Australians have doubts about the mass media according to a recent study by the School of Marketing at Curtin Business School.More than two-thirds (77 per cent) of respondents said they had at some time heard or read a...

IRON Ore miner Portman Limited will spend $2 million to establish a new managed investment scheme forestry business during the next 12 months alongside its existing iron ore and silicon metal divisions.

PERTH-based developer and marketer of web-enabled recruitment systems BigRedSky has signed a substantial business-to-business contract with mBox, which claims to be Australia’s largest unified messaging service provider.Under the agreement, mBox wi...

Will the small players be casualties of bidding war?HOSTILE bids, friendly bids and counter bids.It is takeover time and major WA players such as North Limited and Woodside Energy are the targets.

PROVIDING more than 100 of Perth’s young journalism and film and television students with a break in their chosen vocations has been the highlight of Russell Goodrick’s career with his production company, MRG International.The company, which produc...

ERG Group has won four more automated fare collection contracts in Normandy, France.

PERTH-BASED Victoria Petroleum NL – which plans to drill 17 wells in the next nine months – has placed its immediate chips on three prospects.One of these is its Pipeline prospect, currently being evaluated at no cost to VicPet by the adjacent well ...

SAAB Automobile Australia is celebrating reduced GST car prices with Limited Edition extras for the Saab 9-3 TS Coupe and S Sedan to create the best value entry car in Australia at $49,990.The Limited Edition extras for the Saab 9-3 TS Coupe and S ...

PERTH-based online shopping mall Starmall is trading profitably and gaining a large client base, says Starmall managing director Clif Edwards.

PERTH-BASED junior explorer Galley Gold Limited will spend $2 million hunting gold elephants in Botswana, home of the natural pachyderm.After achieving high-grade gold hits with its recent 55 hole RC drilling on the Mupane prospect, near the border...

CRIME Stoppers WA has appointed Craig Lawrence as its new chief executive officer.Mr Lawrence is the former chairman of the Australia Day Council and the Kings Park Centennial Enhance-ment Committee.He served two terms as a member of the RAC Counc...

WRF Securities Ltd has acquired a new retirement project near Brisbane as part of its transition from a mining company to a profitable financial services group.

WA could learn a lot about providing electronic services to regional areas by observing a pilot recently held in Orange, New South Wales, says ICE Interactive Limited managing director Carl Bradden.ICE recently conducted a pilot of ‘connected’, two...

GREEN power generation is becoming a major issue for power generators and retailers.

WA success story Access1 will provide AccessTV content to Telstra Big Pond under a recently announced umbrella agreement.

Recent drilling by Goldfields Kalgoorlie Limited has discovered a major new high-grade gold deposit at the Raleigh prospect (previously known as Romeo), only 2.5 kilometres southof the company’s Kundana gold operation.

INTRODUCING SpaceDrum from Pac-Com International, the best solution yet for economical transportation, handling and storage of flowable materials.

CONGRATULATIONS to everyone involved in the organisation of last week’s Diggers and Dealers Forum in Kalgoorlie.

ONLINE directory group Aussie Online Limited now has one of Australia’s fastest virtual private networks, allowing for low-cost Internet telephony.

PERTH-BASED gold miner Hill 50 Gold NL produced 45,277 ounces of gold for the June quarter from its operations in the Mt Magnet area of the Murchison goldfields in WA.

KPMG has appointed four new partners to the Perth office, bringing the number of Perth partners to 27.

THE State Government’s decision to display the proposed models by the three bidders for the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre is at best a token exercise.

WORKING Systems Solutions has announced a positive cash flow for the quarter ending June 30, in line with prospectus forecasts.

MOST companies have at least some business plan – usually a few vague ideas on direction and anticipated earnings.

MJB&B Advertising and Market-ing Group and Internet advertising specialists Elink Media Limited have created what they claim to be Australia’s first full-service online and offline marketing, advertising and communications agency.

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ALBANY-BASED Supersorb Minerals has taken a significant step in its drive to develop environmental technology projects as an extension of its core absorbent minerals business, starting test work for mine water treatment and mine site remediation at th...

FOLLOWING last year’s sellout success of the extra-value Olympic Edition Vectra, Astra and Barina models, Holden has released another competitive Olympic Edition four cylinder line-up.

WHILE most media professionals are obsessed with the emergence – and convergence – of new electronic mediums, a Perth company is offering what it believes is needed most...content creation.

PERTH-based Genesis Biomedical Ltd and German biotechnology group co.don are investigating the feasibility of establishing an Asia Pacific joint venture company to supply human tissue engineering and transplantation products and services for musculo-s...

THE END of the wet in the Kimberley region has signalled the start of a most significant phase in the resurgence of diamond exploration in WA’s far north.