A slender face appears at the door of Palama Settlement’s kitchen, bowl in one hand, telephone on shoulder. Kathy Masunaga, owner and creator of Sweet Revenge, smiles a welcome to the Palama Settlement kitchen. She and a single employee are creating a dozen or more Apple Crunch and Peanut Butter Chocolate S’more pies for the online orders they deliver on…
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Name: LOA WONG Job: GREENS COORDINATOR IN THE TV AND FILM INDUSTRY Years of experience: 20 WHAT’S INVOLVED: “Greens” is a specialty in set dressing involving landscape design and building artificial props, such as fake trees. A greens coordinator scopes locations, finds appropriate plants and foliage on site or through suppliers, and dresses the set. “Hawaii hardly does fake…
$20 The True Love Gift Box from Big Island Candies, shown at right, includes six dark- and six milk-chocolate-covered Hawaiian macadamia nuts, four heart-shape milk chocolates, two heart-shape, milk-chocolate-dipped shortbread cookies and three Mika mints. Call 800-935-5510, visit the shop at Ala Moana Center or drop by the factory in Hilo. $42.95 Willows restaurant is offering ceremonies so married guests…
Executives who have trouble finding the time to exercise might consider the Vasper system, which is designed to provide the benefits of a two-hour workout in 20 minutes. “It’s a way to mimic the physiology of an intensive workout and reap those hormonal benefits without the wear and tear, time and effort and electrolyte depletion,” says Sebastian Wasowski, facility manager…
Clint Churchill loves the loops, rolls and spins of acrobatic flying, but he gets his greatest pleasure from his passengers’ thrills. “When the passengers’ reactions are that this is a once-in-a-lifetime experience and they have these huge grins and want to tell their friends, that’s the most rewarding,” says the former Campbell Estate trustee, who is still going strong at…
Spend a day at Hawaii’s beaches and you can’t miss the many small blue and white pieces of plastic scattered in the sand, along with bigger pieces of trash. Method, an ecoconscious cleaning-products company based in San Francisco, is putting that trash to use. Its new liquid hand and dish soap is sold in a container made from plastic collected…
Question: I need a new logo for my small business. What should I do to ensure I get the most effective one? Answer: Your company logo is the heart of your brand image. It affects whether people accept what you want to tell them, including your sales message. To ensure you have an effective logo, follow these steps. First, realize…
Until a few months ago, I thought a “pop-up” was an old-fashioned three-dimensional card or book that surprised you with a magical foldout that popped up as you opened it. Now, I know modern pop-ups are fleeting events – whether of food or fashion – that appear, disappear and then reappear, often in surprisingly different spots. No two are alike….
Friday Morning Pacific Allied Products Ltd., Kapolei Photographer: David Croxford >> Hawaii’s only plastic bottling plant began manufacturing products made with polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, in 1992. The installation of a complete bottling line in 2010 allowed Pacific Allied Products to become 100 percent vertically integrated in PET processing; that’s a first for the United States, the company says. Pictures…
What is C.E.P.A.S.? Navatek, the R&D subsidiary of shipyard operator Pacific Marine, specializes in developing advanced hull forms and flow-control technology. Its new Catalyst Enhanced Plasma Actuation System is designed to improve the efficiency of large, commercial wind turbines by enhancing airflow over the blades. Thin strips of the low-power plasma generators can be mounted directly on the blades. The…
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Spencer is a serial entrepreneur who has served as president of HVCA since 1999. He talks about venture capital in Hawaii following the death of Act 221 and his plans for offshore fish farming using his patented 200-foot wide “Oceansphere.” What are the current trends in venture capital in Hawaii? I would say there are no trends. Since Act 221…
Sonny Bhagowalia has a plan to fix the state’s archaic IT system in June 2011, Bhagowalia became the state of Hawaii’s first chief information officer and the point man in Gov. Neil Abercrombie’s ambitious plan to “reinvent government.” Bhagowalia and his small team at the new Office of Information Management and Technology are responsible for modernizing the state’s patchwork of…
It’s simple, really: Everyone in Hawaii needs to give a hearty round of applause to tourism for lifting us out of the recession. Thank you for an estimated $13.9 billion in visitor spending during 2012 (that’s a record) from 7.8 million tourists. Those numbers carried the state economy through an otherwise lackluster year, saysUHERO, the University of Hawaii Economic Research…
The Pentagon is investing billions in alternative energy and conservation, and that’s good news for local companies it’s good news for hawaii’s economy and local aspirations when the state’s goals align with the American military’s goals. That’s because the U.S. Department of Defense spent $6.5 billion in Hawaii in 2011 and employed 16.5 percent of the workforce. Only tourism brings…