Perth-based engineering and construction business Valmec has won a $24 million contract to provide its services to the Australia Pacific LNG project in Queensland for Origin Energy.
Shares in gold hopeful Alicanto Minerals have surged on news the company has signed a $US10 million ($A14 million) earn-in agreement with Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold for its Arakaka project in Guyana.
The Australian share market has turned higher in early trade after a weak lead from Wall Street with resource and energy stocks rallying on a rise in oil prices.
A national plan that lets people take home works of art with only a 10 per cent deposit and a nine-month interest free loan is attracting new buyers in Perth.
Gold has risen one per cent, boosted by lower equities and weak US data, leaving the metal well placed to log its best monthly performance in four years as turmoil in wider markets increases its safe-haven appeal.
The chairman of the Rottnest Island Authority has responded to his predecessor’s criticism of the island’s management and governance, highlighting a positive development agenda at the resort in recent years.
Shares in agribusiness Wellard have fallen 9.2 per cent as the company revealed its first financial result since listing in December last year, while also flagging a reduction in expected net profit.
Hong Kong-based Brockman Mining has scored another legal victory in its long-running battle to gain access to railways built by Fortescue Metals Group’s infrastructure subsidiary.
After nearly eight years of inactivity on the ASX, Michael Fotios’s Eastern Goldfields could be reinstated as early as next month after announcing today its capital raising had closed oversubscribed.
Perth technology entrepreneur Kashif Saleem has begun a seed capital raising for his award-winning Track’em business ahead of a planned ASX listing by the end of the year.
I note the fuss made around the recent closure of Jacob’s Ladder, a stairway to Kings Park which, due to its popularity as an exercise venue, has earned the ire of local residents.
Energy giant Woodside Petroleum has bolstered its board with the appointment of a former Shell executive, while Dacian Gold has welcomed a prominent lawyer to its board.
SPECIAL REPORT: Garden products manufacturer Richgro has marked its centenary by completing a major capital project that adds a new dimension to the business.
SPECIAL REPORT: Having faced intense competition for much of the past decade, an innovative manufacturing plant backed by timber industry veteran Denis Cullity is starting to deliver good returns.
SPECIAL REPORT: Swimming pool manufacturer Aquatic Leisure Technologies is pursuing increased interstate and overseas sales from its new factory at Jandakot.
Local IT firm ASG Group has received $112 million in contract extensions, with the majority attributed to work for the Victorian Department of Education and Training.
Australia's largest payday lender, Perth-based Cash Converters International, has returned to the black and begun scaling back its troubled business in Britain.
Boutique builder Humphrey Homes has created a new concept to tap into homeowners’ desire to remain in their homes for longer and accommodate generational change.
Gold has fallen more than one per cent, as the US dollar and global shares rose, but fund buying persisted as investors expected a G20 summit would produce little in the way of a co-ordinated stimulus program.
