Maui Business

Dr. Michael E. Clarke welcomes Dr. Michael L. Ellis to the Maui Dental Surgery Group. Dr. Ellis is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon with extensive experience that includes mentoring and training nearly 100 oral and maxillofacial surgeons.

Over 30 Maui business people attended MEDB’s Technical Assistance Series “Boosting Your Financial IQ” workshop on July 15 at the MEDB Malcolm Center in Kīhei.

Members of the Maui Native Hawaiian Chamber of Commerce elected officers for the coming year at its recent annual meeting and also welcomed three new board of director members.

Hotel executives announced the start of an extensive $12 million guest room restoration project at the Travaasa Hāna resort in East Maui. Upon completion of the project at the end of 2015, all 70 bungalows and suites at the resort will offer new and returning guests an enhanced vacation experience, according to a resort announcement.

First Hawaiian Bank’s net income for the first half of 2015 was $113.3 million, an increase of 3.8 percent over the first half of 2014, the bank reported last week.

BedMart Mattress Superstores, in partnership with Tempur-Pedic, donated 50 mattresses, worth approximately $85,000, to Maui Family Support Services Inc. for its program participants at the end of June.

Maui Business Brainstormers will offer two free workshops on how to use census data to benefit your business on 
Friday, July 24, at the Maui County Business Resource Center.

The Reinventing Caregiving Workshops, which will be free and open to the public, are scheduled for Tuesday, July 21, at the Maui Arts and Cultural Center’s Alexa Higashi Room. Session one will be held from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. and session two is in the evening from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Maui Economic Development Board will offer a workshop, “Minding Your Own Business: Entrepreneurial Psychology Basics and You,” on Tuesday, Aug. 4, from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Ste. 5 of the MEDB Malcolm Center in Kīhei.

The State of Hawai‘i will receive almost $1 million from a joint federal-state settlement, which reforms the unlawful credit card debt collection practices of Chase Bank USA N.A. and Chase Bankcard Services Inc.

Hawaiian Electric Company has filed a proposal for a community solar pilot program with the Hawai‘i Public Utilities Commission. If the PUC approves the pilot, approximately 50 O‘ahu utility customers will have the opportunity to take advantage of the many benefits of solar without putting solar panels on their roofs.

The Sustainable Living Institute of Maui, in partnership with Green Building Hawai‘i, are seeking intern candidates interested in helping the Hyatt Regency Maui’s engineering team install LED lighting throughout their facility.

The 100 Men Who Care Maui has selected the Friends of the Children’s Justice Center of Maui as the recipient of the new group’s funding.

Maui residents and visitors will have the opportunity to learn about how to get started on living a healthy lifestyle at the 18th Annual First Hawaiian Bank Maui PrimeTime Wellness Fair on Tuesday, July 28, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

The Kohala Center FoodCorps Hawai‘i received a $25,000 Walmart grant to address childhood obesity and food insecurity. Walmart is offering additional grants to nonprofits; the application deadline is Friday, July 17.

The Ward Group has recognized Island Insurance Company Ltd., the state’s largest locally owned property and casualty insurance carrier, as one of the Top 50 P&C insurers in the nation for the eighth consecutive year.

The Parish Education Committee at St. Anthony Church and the St. Anthony schools in Wailuku is launching a new and comprehensive master planning process this summer to ensure a sustainable and thriving future.

The Hawai‘i Tourism Authority board of directors announced has appointed L. Richard “Rick” Fried Jr. as its new chairperson.

Hawaiian Paddle Sports LLC and its staff donated their time and equipment to provide 15 kids from Maui Youth & Family Services with an afternoon of surfing, canoe surfing and stand up paddle boarding instruction and activities at Launiupoko Beach Park at the end of June.

The voting members of the Boy Scouts of America Aloha Council have elected KTA Super Stores’ Chairman and CEO Barry K. Taniguchi as president and board chair, a voluntary position.