• Murata moves up at First Hawaiian • Hawaiian, United team up in tickets • Parker back from U.S. media blitz • Group rates KauaI lawmakers low • DBEDT’s Liu talks at Chamber dinner • Free seminar is on business financing • Brad Gipolan to stay at Hilo Hattie
Murata moves up at First Hawaiian
Jeffrey M. Murata has been promoted to business banking officer at First Hawaiian Bank’s Lihue branch, a spokesman for the bank announced recently.
Hawaiian, United team up in tickets
Hawaiian Airlines and United Airlines representatives announced they have joined forces to offer mutual customers interline electronic ticketing. The carriers’ representatives expect most domestic travel agencies will be able to issue the e-tickets by Tuesday, July 15.
Parker back from U.S. media blitz
Margy Parker, executive director of the Poipu Beach Resort Association, is back from the Mainland, where she helped promote Kauai as a visitor destination to media at gateway cities from New York to Denver last week. She represented the Kauai Visitors Bureau at media receptions and other functions.
Group rates KauaI lawmakers low
Paychecks Hawaii, which since 1986 has been rating state lawmakers based on votes on business measures like tax legislation, has given all four Kauai lawmakers high marks for being “least supportive of small business and an improved Hawaii business climate.”
State Rep. Hermina “Mina” Morita, D-North Kauai-East Kauai and state Sen. Gary L. Hooser, D-Kauai-Niihau, were both given the least business-friendly ratings, fives, and state Reps. Bertha C. Kawakami, D-South Kauai-West Kauai-Niihau and Ezra R. Kanoho, D-East Kauai-South Kauai, were given fours.
DBEDT’s Liu talks at Chamber dinner
Theodore E. “Ted” Liu, new director of the state Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism, is keynote speaker at the Kauai Chamber of Commerce quarterly general membership meeting, set for this Tuesday, June 24 at the Princeville Resort. Registration and no-host-cocktail service begins at 5:30 p.m. The late-registration cost is $44 for Chamber members, and $49 for guests. For more information, please call 245-7363; fax 245-8815, or see the Web site, www.kauaichamber.org/reservations?view-res&53.
Free seminar is on business financing
Small Business Financing Alternatives Made Easy is a free seminar on ways to find cash to start or grow a business, set for this Tuesday, June 24, from 9 a.m. to noon at Kauai Community College. It is sponsored by the Hawaii Small Business Development Center Network Kauai Center and the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Lack of capital continues to be one of the major reasons small businesses fail. Representatives of various nontraditional lending sources will be present at the seminar. Registration is required, and the registration deadline is tomorrow, Monday, June 23. Please call Clara Oligo, 246-1748, to register, and for more information.
Brad Gipolan to stay at Hilo Hattie
Brad Gipolan, who with his wife Cecilia are franchisees of the island’s first Dippin’ Dots ice cream store, is keeping his job as general manager of the Lihue Hilo Hattie store. Due to a reporter’s error, a story in last Sunday’s Business section incorrectly called him the former manager at Hilo Hattie. Dippin’ Dots, located in Waipouli’s Coconut Marketplace, is open seven days a week, from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
