In just its second year in the tightly held retail gas market, Wesfarmers’ Kleenheat brand has stirred up intense competition among business customers.
Macquarie Group is on track to post its biggest profit in eight years, as the lower Australian dollar and improved market activity bolsters its earnings.
Cost cutting may be the order of the day across the resources industry, but mining services provider Murray Engineering is marching to the beat of its own drum – hiring at its Pinjarra headquarters and opening a larger Kalgoorlie office.
A surge in the number of backdoor listings was one of the few positives on the stock market in 2014, and two new deals for technology companies show there is more to come.
Clifford Chance, Ashurst and Gilbert + Tobin have been ranked as the top law firms in the Business News 2014 corporate finance league table, but for very different reasons.
Woods Bagot has been ranked seventh in a list of the world’s top 100 architecture firms for the second consecutive year, with the company’s Perth studio emerging as one of its most strategically important.
MACA has signed a new $9 million deal to provide services to Doray Minerals at its Meekatharra gold project, as the mining and civil engineering firm winds down operations at Rosslyn Hill Mining's lead operation at Paroo Station near Wiluna, which will be put on care and maintenance next month.
Apartment developers are shrugging off concerns of oversupply in key markets, a slowing pre-sales environment and falling rental values, pushing on with plans for significant new projects, both in the CBD and suburban areas.
Sydney-based networking group Innovation Bay is expanding to Perth, aiming to give technology entrepreneurs a new pathway to attract seed capital from angel investors.
A group of local business owners is lobbying the state government to support changes to the GST import threshold, making Western Australia a key front in national retail reform.
Copper prices extended their rebound on Friday, as some investors judged Wednesday's drop to five and a half year lows as too extreme despite continued worries about demand.
Gold prices extended their rally on Friday to lock in a 5 per cent gain for the week as worries about global growth and turbulence in currency markets spurred investment demand for haven assets.
Perth has maintained its trend of weekly price fluctuations at the petrol bowser, according to Australian Competition & Consumer Commission data, despite most other capitals moving towards longer fuel price cycles.
Commercial rents in the Perth CBD have been tipped to fall by 9.4 per cent over the next 12 months, with the Western Australian capital one of only two major Australian cities to experience a contraction in office rental values.
Atlantic is using a big insurance payout to rebuild the Windimurra vanadium plant nearly a year after a fire forced the project to shut down, but the company still faces major operational and financial challenges.
Business News’ CEO survey has unearthed strong views on the turbulent 12 months just gone, while also offering some timely advice to our political leaders.
Garden City Booragoon has gone high-tech to attract and retain more shoppers over the school holidays, launching an interactive augmented reality system using technology developed in Europe.
