Carrie Burns

LAUNCHED just four months ago, Food Rescue’s cargo carts initiative is gaining momentum, almost tripling the numbers of volunteers and hatching plans to further expand into West Perth.

Welshpool-based Mount Ridley Mines has announced a $3.24 million placement for exploration at its Fraser Range nickel-copper project, with the company already receiving commitments in excess of this amount.

Two Western Australian business owners have been inducted into the Australian Businesswomen’s Network Hall of Fame, joining 16 other inductees in the lead up to International Women’s Day this Sunday.

The Salvation Army’s Western Australian division has recreated a strategic advisory board, about 20 years after the previous one was dismantled, with the new board including several well-known Perth business figures.

A group of local philanthropists has launched a new gala event into Perth’s busy market with the inaugural Purple Hearts Ball to be held next week.

A group of young local entrepreneurs is preparing for the official opening of a new Northbridge music venue, having identified an investment opportunity and a gap in the local live music market.

East Perth-based financial services group Pioneer Credit has delivered an interim profit after tax of $1.6 million, but said it was still on track to achieve a FY15 profit of $6.6 million in its first full financial year as a public-listed company.

Some of the biggest names in WA business will help nurture the next wave of philanthropists in the state as part of an innovative program to raise money for the children’s hospital.

Automotive and aerospace equipment developer Orbital Corporation’s majority owned mine site safety product Remsafe has secured a $2 million order from a major Western Australian iron ore mining company.