Business

Beauty Therapist Is Keen To Stay

Beauty Therapist Is Keen To Stay

When former Nanango student Shanae Van Den Brink found she couldn’t find a job in her chosen career, the qualified beauty therapist decided to create her own.

Swickers Celebrates A New Era

Swickers Celebrates A New Era

It took just 352 days – plus 700 tonnes of steel and 6800 cubic metres of concrete – for Swickers’ new boning room to officially rise from the ashes.

RDA Seeks Commitee Members

RDA Seeks Commitee Members

Movers and shakers in the South Burnett are being sought to join the committee overseeing Regional Development Australia in the Wide Bay Burnett region.

Wineries Urged To Apply For Grants

Wineries Urged To Apply For Grants

South Burnett tourism operators, wineries, and cellar doors have been urged to join a new national effort to attract more international wine tourists to Australia.

KCCG Denies Entering Mine Site

KCCG Denies Entering Mine Site

Kingaroy Concerned Citizens Group spokesman John Dalton has denied he was trying to enter a drilling site near Kingaroy when an alleged altercation occurred with a contractor last week.

BGA Takes Action To Recover Debts

BGA Takes Action To Recover Debts

Kingaroy-based Bean Growers Australia has successfully applied to have a liquidator appointed to pulse marketer Blue Ribbon Group which has reported debts of more than $11 million.

Bega Cheese Seals PCA Deal

Bega Cheese Seals PCA Deal

Bega Cheese has informed the ASX that it now owns more than 93 per cent of the shares in the Peanut Company of Australia and will proceed to full ownership through compulsory acquisition.

Tourism Group Claims Record

Tourism Group Claims Record

Southern Queensland Country Tourism – the regional organisation that the South Burnett Regional Council recently quit – is claiming a record number of domestic tourists over the past year.

PCA Takeover Offer On Track

PCA Takeover Offer On Track

Bega Cheese has advised the ASX that its unconditional takeover offer for all of the shares in the Peanut Company of Australia Limited is “progressing well”.

Energy Audit For Council

Energy Audit For Council

Toowoomba Regional Council has been selected to take part in a State Government program aimed at cutting its power bill by up to 40 per cent.

Local Winery Wins Big In Asia

Local Winery Wins Big In Asia

Moffatdale Ridge has won five medals at Hong Kong’s 2017 Wine Luxe International Awards, one of Asia’s highest profile wine events.

Three-Year Deal For TSBE

Three-Year Deal For TSBE

Toowoomba Regional Council has endorsed a new three-year funding deal for the Toowoomba and Surat Basin Enterprise (TSBE), a key economic development organisation in the region.

CTC Says Thank You

CTC Says Thank You

Retiring treasurer Max Lehmann was presented with a gift for his many years of service at the South Burnett CTC annual general meeting held in Kingaroy recently.

ALDI Recalls Hot Dogs

ALDI Recalls Hot Dogs

ALDI supermarkets have recalled American-Style Skinless Hot Dogs after pieces of bone were detected in some items.

MP Welcomes Royal Commission

MP Welcomes Royal Commission

Member for Wide Bay Llew O’Brien – one of the LNP backbenchers who had been pressing hard for a judicial inquiry into Australian banks  – has welcomed the Royal Commission announced last week.

Winter Crop Yields Slashed

Winter Crop Yields Slashed

Mixed seasonal conditions have slashed winter crop yields in Australia, according to the Australian crop report released on Tuesday by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences.