Mark Pownall

Mark Pownall has around three decades of media experience, predominantly in business media in Perth, with a foray to the financial centre of London in the early 1990s.

Mark has a vast body of work available through the archives of Business News, including news articles and features on many subjects. He has written a regular column for Business News since he joined as Editor in 2000 and has also been a key part of the Mark My Words podcast duo with Mark Beyer since 2014. On stage Mark has interviewed many of the state's business leaders.

For most of his time at Business News Mark ran the content operations of the business and was integral to the implementation of all the company’s digital products – the twice daily email newsletters, weekly podcasts, deals database and the Data & Insights subscriber database and search engine.

In early 2017 he became CEO of Business News, a role he had for nearly three years before transitioning to his last executive position as Director of Strategy & Innovation, where he was responsible for digital transformation and new product development, including the rollout of a new subscriber-only remuneration platform.

Mark’s media career started with sports reporting while he studied for a Commerce degree at the University of Western Australia. He followed that with a post-graduate qualification in English at Curtin University.

 

Winemaker drops tax scheme

Winemaker drops tax scheme

By Mark Pownall

TURMOIL in the tax-effective market has prompted WA wine company Evans & Tate to drop plans to use a Managed Invest-ment Scheme structure to fund its Australasian Vineyard Trust.

01 May 2001
Bid leaves liquor stores in limbo

Bid leaves liquor stores in limbo

By Mark Pownall

TWENTY WA liquor stores trading under the Porters banner will have to wait at least two weeks before the future of their brand is known following Coles-Myer’s bid for its owner.

01 May 2001
Concept creates mixed feelings

Concept creates mixed feelings

By Mark Pownall

FRANCHISING is one of those odd concepts in business which create mixed feelings for market watchers.The franchise, by its very nature, limits creativity yet it still provides the flexibility to all grow faster than almost any business.

01 May 2001
Tax break multiplies division

Tax break multiplies division

By Mark Pownall

TAX scheme investors have won a reprieve in their long-running battle against the Australian Taxation Office but underneath the seemingly united front there are big differences on just how the matter should be resolved.

24 Apr 2001
Costello decides and Gallop is happy

Costello decides and Gallop is happy

By Mark Pownall

PETER Costello’s long awaited announcement on the future on Royal Dutch Shell’s bid on Woodside Petroleum has ended months of speculation on whether the takeover bid could proceed under Australia’s foreign investment guidelines.

24 Apr 2001
Protest confusion

Protest confusion

By Mark Pownall

I WAS amused to read the rantings of the latest protest movement in a bright green flyer that was being handed at the bus drivers strike meetings by people holding copies of Socialist Worker.

24 Apr 2001
Decision welcomed

Decision welcomed

By Mark Pownall

THERE are a lot of relieved people in WA following the Federal Government’s decision to block Shell’s bid.

24 Apr 2001
Bid to diffuse tax scheme row

Bid to diffuse tax scheme row

By Mark Pownall

THE furore in WA over the heavily marketed tax schemes appears to be gaining an increasing profile in Canberra, with the matter being given a big airing at Federal Cabinet this week.

17 Apr 2001
Natural progression for restaurateur

Natural progression for restaurateur

By Mark Pownall

WHO says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? One of Perth’s best known faces, Robert Ruse claims to have put his past behind him and is ready for another crack at business with a new venture.

17 Apr 2001
Legs walk over sign opposition

Legs walk over sign opposition

By Mark Pownall

A SHAPELY set of legs featured in a new city apartment advertising campaign caused a stir at last week’s City of Perth council meeting as councillors debated whether it was simply stylish or just plain sexist.

17 Apr 2001
Designers want a look inside

Designers want a look inside

By Mark Pownall

FIRST it was the graphic designers now we see it in the world of interior design – complaints from local industry that they don’t get a fair go when it comes to big State Government contracts.

17 Apr 2001
Taste for learning

Taste for learning

By Mark Pownall

THE WA Wine Industry Association has opened a new education facility in Perth’s northern suburbs, the first in a series of planned metropolitan satellite centres aimed at improving the public’s knowledge of wine.

17 Apr 2001
Listed investment companies yield to market

Listed investment companies yield to market

By Mark Pownall

Australia’s listed investment companies have been “out of favour” for more than a year, ever since new capital gains tax rules were announced, but for many investors it may be timely to reconsider this sector.

17 Apr 2001
No shelter for prospectus pain

No shelter for prospectus pain

By Mark Pownall

Agricultural scheme pro-moters are reeling at the latest blow to their industry, with regulators chang-ing the rules about prospectus fore-casts in the middle of the key marketing period.

10 Apr 2001
Bank bonus

Bank bonus

By Mark Pownall

BOUTIQUE investment bank Gresham Partners has always been a quiet little earner for WA’s biggest industrial company Wesfarmers, contributing a healthy $2.5 million on average to the bottom line during each of the past couple of years.

10 Apr 2001
Laos gem link

Laos gem link

By Mark Pownall

A GEM dealer who quit Perth after being hounded by creditors has emerged with an apparent link to two Australians held in custody in Laos over the disappearance of sapphires from that country.

10 Apr 2001

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