Hawaii Business back issues from August 2004:
2004, a year for firsts.(Editor's Desktop)
Aug 01, 2004; ... The annual Hawaii Business Top 250 issue is always a logistical challenge. First off, there is the sheer size of the book--more than three times the number of pages than in some other months. Then there is the volume and scope of research that goes into surveying Hawaii's top ...
Corrections.(Correction Notice)
Aug 01, 2004 ... The TIGR department of the July 2004 issue should have said that New Horizons Computer Learning Centers of Hawaii guarantees its graduates internships with many ...
The "best" is yet to come.(Publisher's Nota Bene)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Like every other business community, we are fascinated by lists. In this month's issue we are proud to have our annual list of the Top 250 companies in Hawaii, ranked according to gross sales. To be listed is voluntary, and not every company in Hawaii elects to participate. But we applaud ...
High on Highway Inn.(Mailbag)(Letter to the Editor)
Aug 01, 2004; ... I would like to respond to an article David Choo wrote in your June 2004 Hawaii Business Magazine issue regarding the Highway Inn. I believe the article was an unfair and prejudiced attack against Hawaiian food and cuisine. The prelude to your article infers that Hawaiian food ...
Coco Palms Resort.(Off The Shelf)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004; ... The area encompassing the Coco Palms Resort was the home of Kauai's last reigning queen, Queen Deborah Kapule, in the mid-1800s. It had been the ancestral home of Kauai's alii since the 13th century. Originally opening on January 25, 1953, the Coco Palms Resort had been Kauai's ...
Far away from the farm: Allan Landon is second-in-command at one of Hawaii's largest banks.(in focus)(Biography)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Bank Hawaii's No. 2 guy and heir apparent came to Hawaii to work as the bank's director of risk management in 2000, never dreaming of such a rapid ascent. Allan Landon now holds the following titles: vice chairman of the board, president, chief operating officer and chief financial ...
Charity checkup: Irving Lauber diagnoses Hawaii's nonprofits.(road ahead)(Interview)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Each year, Hawaii Business' Top 250 list features the state's largest businesses. For the most part, the companies on the list are typical "big businesses," measuring success by profits, earnings and shareholder values. This year, however, an unusual number of nonprofit organizations have ...
Wellness on the web.(Targeted Industries Growth Report)
Aug 01, 2004; ... A few years ago, North Shore residents Katherine Fisher and Michael Saiz thought it would be "cute and fun" to put together a simple online yoga directory for visitors and locals. But what started off as cute and fun soon became complex and wearisome as the site rapidly gained popularity ...
Seeing green in lavender.(Targeted Industries Growth Report)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... What started off as a small, local farming operation, Alii Kula Lavender on Maui is growing into a global competitor in the worldwide market for lavender. The company, which grows its lavender on the slopes of Haleakala, will begin wholesaling its bath-and-body, culinary and ...
Catching the high-speed wave.(Targeted Industries Growth Report)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... Things are picking up for HawaiiWave High Speed Wireless Networks LLC, a Maui-based company that developed, in conjunction with Oceanic Time Warner Cable, an affordable method of outfitting resorts and condominiums with high-speed Internet access. installation typically costs hotels and ...
Business takes a beating in silence.(Leadership Lessons)
Aug 01, 2004; ... To do good and also do well by itself, the business community should become a knowledgeable participant in the reform of financing election campaigns. As it is, the business world tends to keep its head down, Pay, the ever-rising cost of campaigns and absorb much of the ...
The big picture: low interest rates helped ignite the state's long-dormant construction and real estate sectors, just as the state's volatile visitor industry started to warm up.(De Luz Enterprises)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Cowboy boots and 10-gallon hats are part of' the dress code for executives at the Hilo-based David S. De Luz Sr. Enterprises. "We're not like businesses in Honolulu," says De Luz chief financial officer, Victor Trevino. "We're a different kind of breed here on the Big Island." ...
The wild ride: Kamehameha Schools' six-year journey on the revenue roller coaster has it on top again.(Sales again: Kamehameha Schools)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Some people just know how to make a big impression ... again and again and again. In 2000, Kamehameha Schools, which had been absent from the Top 250 for three years, made the grandest reappearance in the history of the list. That year, it reported 1999 gross sales of $839 ...
Eyeing the bottom line: construction companies had some of the biggest sales drops for 2003--why are they happy about it?(Sales loss: Construction)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Construction may be booming now, but not all construction companies showed stellar revenue figures last year. Of the companies experiencing more than 10 percent revenue drops, five were construction companies: Robert M. Kaya Builders (36 percent), Koga Engineering & Construction (28 ...
Incoming freshman.(University Of Hawaii System)
Aug 01, 2004; ... When Hawaii Business queried David McClain, who was appointed acting president of the University of Hawaii System in mid-June, about why the university had never previously reported sales figures for inclusion in the annual Top 250, he paused for a second. "I honestly don't know," he ...
A whopper of a tale.(Kazi Foods)(Kazi Foods Hawaii)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Zubair Kazi is serious about customers having it their way. Kazi presides over a 220-franchise restaurant empire covering nine states. However, when the president of California-based Kazi Foods visits one of his restaurants, he's so customer-focused that he is as comfortable jumping into ...
Rooms for improvement.(Marriott International)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Marriott International Inc.'s decision to consolidate the sales of its 13 Hawaii properties has vaulted the hotel company's Hawaii region to the No. 11 spot on the Top 250 list. While Marriott International Inc. (NYSE:MAR) is technically not a "newbie" to the list, with some of its ...
Buoyant new business.(Pacific Shipyards International)
Aug 01, 2004; ... When Hawaii's private ship-repair business was sailing into troubled waters during the late 1990s, Bill Clifford was there to help navigate it in the right direction. As the president and chief executive officer of Pacific Shipyards International LLC, Clifford has aided in the rescue of an ...
Wholesale changes: the Maui company with the highest percentage revenue increase now has a Mainland parent.(Maui)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Donald Zwade came to Maui on his honeymoon, but ended up staying for 16 years, selling two businesses and raising lout children. By the time he sold the second company this April, he had gone from a college graduate with a new accounting degree to a Sandwich shop owner to a wholesale food ...
Sugar substitute: Gay & Robinson hopes to turn its trash into treasure with a couple of brand new ethanol facilities.(Kauai)
Aug 01, 2004; ... In June, when Gov. Linda Lingle signed Bill SB3207, establishing a tax credit for the construction of ethanol production facilities in Hawaii, Alan Kennett let out a huge sigh of relief. Kennett, president of Kauai's lone sugar plantation, Gay & Robinson Inc., had been anxiously awaiting ...
Back in the saddle: the grass is greener at Parker Ranch.(Big Island)(Parker Ranch Inc.)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Early this year, the rains came back to Parker Ranch, ending a more than five-year-long drought. "We've got an awful lot of grass growing around here," says David Houle, Parker Ranch Inc.'s president and chief executive officer, who stepped down from his position last June. ...
Fierce loyalty: Central Pacific Bank showed it in its dogged pursuit of a merger with City Bank, but exposed a cultural rift. Now they have to bring both sides together.
Aug 01, 2004; ... Central Pacific Bank's slogan may have been "fiercely loyal banking," but it was City Bank's customers who showed what that meant when they turned out en masse to oppose Central Pacific Financial Corp's (NYSE:CPF) proposal to merge the two banks more than a year ago. Taking their cue from ...
Guide to the 2004: Hawaii Business Top 250.(Top 250 Guide)
Aug 01, 2004 ... Although this is the Top 250 list, we are aware that than 250 companies in Hawaii that generated gross annual sales of more than $17.6 million in 2003. Some of these companies do not appear in this year's list for three reasons: * Their U.S. mainland or international parents do ...
Behind the scenes.
Aug 01, 2004 ... Dozens of dedicated people put in countless hours to compile the Top 250 list. This year, the hard-working folks at Ward Research Inc. joined the Hawaii Business team. The Top 250 is very much a year-round project. At the completion of one year's list, the Hawaii Business team ...
Rankings.(Top 250)(Illustration)
Aug 01, 2004 ... <Pre> TOP 250 RANKINGS RANK COMPANY '04 '03 LINE OF BUSINESSPARENT COMPANY DBAs, SUBSIDIARIES OR DIVISIONS 11BancWest Corp. Financial services.www.bancwestcorp.com BNP Paribas (France) First Hawaiian Bank (61 ...
Footnotes.(Top 250)
Aug 01, 2004 ... (1) Year of bank incorporation/Year of holding company formation (2) Year of Hawaiian Electric Co. formation/Year of holding company formation (3) Year of founding/Year of incorporation (4) Joshua Gotbaum was appointed Chapter 11 trustee in July 2003 ...
Good times/bad times.(Top 250)(Illustration)
Aug 01, 2004 ... <Pre> GOOD TIMES/BAD TIMESBIGGEST SALES GAIN RANK RANK SALES '03 SALES '02 PERCENT '04 '03 COMPANY($MIL) ($MIL)INCREASE 1039 Kamehameha Schools 544.3 153.9 253.7% 44...
Industry sectors.(Top 250)(Illustration)
Aug 01, 2004 ... <Pre> INDUSTRY SECTORS SALES 2003 PERCENT INDUSTRY (NO. OF COMPANIES) ($MIL) CHANGE Agriculture (2) 192.8 13.1% Air Transportation (4) 1,262.0 14.1% Conglomerate ...
Ranking by neighbor islands.(Top 250)(Illustration)
Aug 01, 2004 ... <Pre> RANKING BY NEIGHBOR ISLANDS SALES 2003 COMPANY RANK($MIL) BIG ISLAND David S. De Luz Sr. Enterprises Inc. ...
Transitions.(Top 250)(Illustration)
Aug 01, 2004 ... <Pre> TRANSITIONS RETURNEES TO TOP 250 SALES 2003 CURRENT($MIL) RANKING COMPANY (YEAR, TOP 250 RANKING) Covanta Honolulu Resource ...
Best of the rest.(Top 250)(Illustration)
Aug 01, 2004 ... <Pre> COMPANY CHIEF EXECUTIVES'03 SALES LINE OF BUSINESS '02 SALES($MIL) Associated Steel Workers Ltd. Ronald Fujikawa--PR, TR...
Rising sun rising sales: as the field of Japanese companies in Hawaii narrows, sales go up.(Japan Top 25)
Aug 01, 2004; ... "The worst is over," says Masatoshi Muto, Consul General of Japan in Hawaii. This is his assessment of the outlook for Japanese-owned companies here. While 2003 was actually a pretty good year for many Japanese companies doing business in Hawaii, there is no question that many ...
Japan top 25.(Top 250)(Illustration)
Aug 01, 2004 ... <Pre> JAPAN TOP 25 SALES 2003 COMPANY (RANK) PARENT COMPANY ($MIL) Kyo-ya Co. Ltd. (#16) Kokusai Kogyo Co. Ltd.471.4 JTB Hawaii Inc. (#25) JTB Corp. ...
Design Partners Incorporated.(Corporate Anniversary 25 Years)
Aug 01, 2004 ... 1580 Makaloa St., Suite 1100 Honolulu, Hawaii 96814 Phone: 949-0044 Fax: 946-9663 dpinc@hawaii.rr.com What began 25 years ago with three architects launching a modest local architectural firm is now Design Partners Inc., a 40-person multi-service design company, ...
Top 250 Company Index '04.(Illustration)
Aug 01, 2004 ... <Pre> 3M (3M Hawaii) 235 3M Hawaii 235 7-Eleven Hawaii Inc. 50 99 cents Store Windward Mall (Marukai Corp.)...
Top 250 executive index '04.(Illustration)
Aug 01, 2004 ... <Pre> A Abe, Glenn VP/Finance, CFO (Hale Makua) 212 Abe, Roanne VP/Admin. (Commercial Data Systems Inc.)121 Acoba, Eric MGR/Store (Waikele) (The Sports Authority) 170 Ah Moo, Duke VP/Operations--Hawaii (Pleasant Holidays LLC) ...
Mapunapuna: industrial strength.(Mapunapuna Industrial Park )
Aug 01, 2004; ... Last year's sale of the Damon Estate's commercial property portfolio to Massachusetts based HRPT Properties Trust created a buzz in the real estate world that was heard from Bishop Street to Boston. Nearly $500 million for 224 acres that have had few, if any, improvements done since ...
Hawaii outlook: Hawaii expansion remains solid.(Uhero)
Aug 01, 2004; ... The Hawaii economy continues to grow strongly. A hot housing market, healthy, Mainland tourism and buoyant construction spending support expansion in jobs and incomes, despite a less-than-complete recovery of the, Japanese tourism market. Even with high oil prices and rising interest ...
Hawaiian Water Patrol: a local business makes an international splash.
Aug 01, 2004; ... It is fitting that the story of the Hawaiian Water Patrol Inc. (HWP) reads like a Hollywood script. In the '70s, Terry Ahue was a City and County of Honolulu lifeguard sitting beside legendary waterman Eddie Aikau at Waimea Bay, saving lives and surfing what many consider the biggest waves ...
Rising to the occasions: after 20 years, Current Affairs blossoms from a catering business into a full-service event-planning and production company.
Aug 01, 2004; ... Upon turning 100 years old, Young Brothers Ltd. wanted to host an anniversary event for its clients and employees. But it didn't want any of the standard party staples, such as paper tablecloths and foods served in large, aluminum pans. The veteran shipping company wanted something ...
Baskets of health: Galloping Garden helps Kauai locals and tourists eat right.(Galloping Garden)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Sally Boice ice is not your mother, but she still wants you to eat your fruits and vegetables. As a registered dietician, Boice and her husband, Chris, formed Galloping Garden, a small business that delivers a bushel basket of fresh fruits and vegetables to locals and tourists on Kauai. ...
Cooking with the pros: a local company courts foodies for fun and profit.(Gourmet Cooking Hawaii)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Kat Hurtubise was planning events for a nonprofit four years ago when she discovered her passion for gourmet food. It wasn't just the taste, it was the whole food experience. "I wanted to be around people who love food and wine, because they're the happiest people out there," she says. ...
Tough season: small businesses want changes at the state Capitol next year.
Aug 01, 2004; ... If professional lobbyists could give small-business owners one word of advice to help tip the legislative scales in their favor it would be this: vote. "Voter apathy is heavy," explains Tim Lyons, executive vice president of the Hawaii Business League. "If any one group can ...
The secrets of retail magicians.(Selling Point)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Small businesses can learn much from Hilo Hattie, a masterful retail marketer. Hilo Hattie identifies over 20 target groups and employs over 90 different marketing tactics to reach them. As a result, 25 percent of Mainland visitors go to one of Hilo Hattie's seven Hawaii stores. "We're the ...
New safe-harbor rule limits salary-basis violations.(Law Watch)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Employers who make improper deductions to an exempt workers' wages will have their liability limited by the U.S. Department of Labor's new Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) regulations. The important changes, which go into effect Aug. 23, 2004, provide that an employee's white-collar exempt ...
What you need to know about your college savings plan.(Dollars & Sense)
Aug 01, 2004; ... The ever-rising cost of higher education has many parents wondering, "How will I afford to send my children to college?" The answer for many parents is Section 529 College Savings Plans. These programs, which were named after the Internal Revenue Code section that established ...
Q & A with Peter Kay.
Aug 01, 2004; ... Q A reader from Honolulu asks, "We have staff that is resisting technological change in our office. How do we get them to use computers more?" A Getting people to adopt and use technology is probably the oldest tech-related problem. I'm certain that even prehistoric geeks had a ...
Bank on it: managing your cash flow.
Aug 01, 2004; ... Healthy cash flow is essential to business. It is important to have sufficient cash on hand to pay cash obligations. business owners claim that healthy cash flow is more important than the business' ability to deliver its goods or services. With insufficient cash to pay your suppliers, ...
eBay and negative feedback.(Law of the Line)
Aug 01, 2004; ... If you are familiar with eBay, you know that the feedback back ratings of sellers and purchasers can be important. The California state courts recently considered a case in which a seller sued eBay, alleging that eBay allowed malicious feedback to remain on the site, after the seller had ...
Con artists go "phishing".(technique)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Your email inbox may be holding something far more harmful than annoying spam: email scares known as "phishing" have been on the rise in 2004. Phishing refers to deceitful emails, which point to fraudulent Web sites created to trick people into revealing financial or identity information ....
Getting up to speed.(HB archives: chronicling business in Hawaii since 1955)(Reading Dynamics Institute)(Hawaii Business and Industry 1964)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Locals love speaking pidgin, so it's not surprising that they latched on to speed reading when it was introduced in the early '60s. As with pidgin, speed reading doesn't involve skipping facts or ideas; instead, it means abandoning the common and proper pronunciation of words. "Speed ...
Wingin' it.(HB archives: chronicling business in Hawaii since 1955)(B-25 bomber used for aerial topography)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004; ... "Ex-Bomber Shoots Pictures Instead of People" was the headline for a January 1964 Hawaii Business and Industry story about an airplane used in World War II that was converted to serve a more peaceful purpose. Twenty years after the war, the twin-engine B-25 bomber was still flying much of ...
Sugar cowboys.(HB archives: chronicling business in Hawaii since 1955)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Cane and cattle, it seems, have always gone hand in hand. In the 1950s, as the sugar cane industry advanced into a "mechanized state," employees at Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Co. Ltd.'s Grove Ranch (an Alexander & Baldwin company) on Maui began the "transformation from raising work ...
Global Village: the universal appeal of Little Village Noodle House.(dining with Dave)(Restaurant Review)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Little Village Noodle House has one of the most diverse lunchtime crowds in Chinatown, if not in all of Honolulu. On the day that we visited, downtown office people dined next to a sprinkling of tourists, locals from outside the area and Chinatown residents. The restaurant's ...
Faye Kurren: president and chief executive officer, Hawaii Dental Service.(Room @ the top)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... Faye Kurren loves the view from her office in the Topa Financial Center. The three windows lining the wall to the left of her desk afford her a spectacular, uninterrupted view of Honolulu Harbor and the Aloha Tower Marketplace. However, it isn't the boatloads of joyful tourists or the ...