Staff Reporters

PERTH-based Troy Resources NL has entered the new year with a strong balance sheet and plenty of prospective exploration ground.

ADECCO has announced improved financial results for the 1999 fiscal year both globally and in the Asia Pacific region.Company results include revenues of $17.3 billion.

WA-based Impress Technologies subsidiary mBox.com Limited has appointed BMCMedia.com Limited to promote and sell advertising on its website.

TWO Perth multimedia companies are vying for leadership in the interactive CD-ROM product market.

THE proposed large increases in global steel production in WA have been welcomed by the Australian gas industry as a leading indicator of improved metals demand and a sign of economic recovery in the North East Asian markets.

WHILE CEOs acknowledge the importance of future business growth, they lack the ability to make it happen, a Drake Management Consulting survey has found.

A PERTH-based electronic retailing website that has been specifically designed for quick use will be launched in March.

INTERNET and information technology business Chrome Global has entered the application service provider market.

PLANS are underway for WRF Securities Ltd to launch an investment scheme in South Australia.

Austrade is the Australian Trade Commission – the Federal Govern-ment’s export and investment facilitation agency.

FOLLOWING the long line of WA resource companies moving into the telecommunications arena, AMX Resources has agreed to purchase 100 per cent of the issued capital of Semaphore Telecommunications.

A MERE two per cent of Australian businesses with an Internet presence reported a profit from transactions generated from and through their websites during 1999, according to a study by Marketing Focus research team leader Barry Urqhuart.

I had never been to Coco’s at South Perth until last week. In fact, I had hitherto avoided it.

WOODSIDE Petroleum Limited has paid US$25.6 million for entry into hydrocarbon prospective, deep water exploration acreage in the Gulf of Mexico.

GOLD miner Croesus Mining NL has reported high-grade gold intersections in recent drilling at its Fort William prospect at Binduli.

THE diversified resource sector hitting the strongest industry grouping performance during December augurs well for the industry which continues to be dogged by gold jitters and hawkish sentiment from US markets.

IN AN increasingly ‘wired’ world one might expect energy consumption, and with it greenhouse gas emissions, to grow but studies suggest electronic commerce is environmentally friendly.

WITH the dawn of the new millennium, the world’s most powerful banker, Allan Greenspan has recognised that the Internet-led new economy has rewritten the economic rule book.

PERTH-based Titan Resources NL has completed construction of a $2.23 million pilot plant for bacterial leaching of its Mt Sholl nickel-copper ore deposit in the Pilbara region of WA.

WA BRICK and tile manufacturer Bristile Ltd – currently embroiled in a takeover of Wesfi – has been forecast to double its earnings in the current fiscal year by expanding interstate.

ALTHOUGH gold experienced a blip in October 1999, it was another disappointing year for the precious metal which has been losing out to investments in hydrocarbons and some base metals.

THE sale of diamonds last year by the De Beers controlled Central Selling Organisation achieved an all-time record, according to South African stockbroker BOE Securities.

A good ‘family restaurant’ delivers more than kiddie-proof food, high chairs and chips with everything. It imposes a frame of mind where it doesn’t matter so much what wine goes with what dish or whether the sea salt is from Normande or even what you wear

A MOVE by mining giant North Limited to slash about $100 million from its balance sheets has resulted in redundancies and operational restructuring by Pilbara iron ore miner Robe River Iron Associates.

I HAVE just visited Perth on one of those things Barry Humphries’ Sir Les Patterson used to refer to as a ‘fact finding mission’.

IT WAS no surprise to read in January that an international survey has rated Perth’s quality of living among the highest in the world.

The Federal Government has branded criticisms of its new Internet content legislation, that came into effect on 1 January, as unfounded.

WA’S gas industry is expecting a very busy year.Australian Gas Association industry development manager David Parker said the industry had a number of key activities either underway or scheduled for 2000...

Before the modern day ubiquity of the dial-a-pizza phenomenon, young men seeking saturated fats sought out Mexican restaurants. There was no cheaper or finer way to ingest the two teenage male food groups – fat and fattier.

ROBE River Associates, part of the North Limited group, is targeting an increased share of the market in China.

For those with a long-standing interest in the online economy, this last week produced a fairly significant event.

LAST year was a big year for the Property Council of Australia’s lobbying efforts on tax reform, a battle it fought on three fronts – the Ralph report, GST and stamp duty.