Maui Business

Hawaiian Airlines and Par Hawaii, announced plans today to join forces to study the commercial viability of locally produced sustainable aviation fuels, to replace all or a percentage of traditional kerosene-based jet fuel with fuel that is made with sustainable feedstocks.  

Royce Fukuroku, Vice President, Central Pacific Bank, Maui Commercial Banking Assistant Manager, has been appointed to the J. Walter Cameron Center’s Board of Directors.

Hula Grill Kāʻanapali has named Amber Compton as the new general manager to oversee the restaurant’s day-to-day operations and staff.

Three stores which opened this spring include Ho’olawa Co., Lucky Cat Provisions, and Island Time Tattoo. In addition, Keep It Simple Hawai’i, will open later this month.

Dr. Jonathan-James “JJ” Eno joined the Maui Orthopedic Institute in Wailuku on March 1, partnering with Dr. Zachary Thielen.

Homebridge Financial Services in Hawai‘i announced today that Maui’s Faith Armanini and Oahu’s Team Hi Five (Preston Sims and Rylan Maddox) are its top producers for May.

As hotel manager, Ray will work alongside the general manager as the strategic business leader for the property, overseeing front office, engineering, housekeeping, food and beverage, culinary, security, event management and recreation teams and working with direct reports to develop and implement the operations strategy.

The State of Hawaiʻi Digital Currency Innovation Lab, a pilot program, will be extended two years to operate until June 30, 2024.

To honor her parents who were Vietnam refugees, a UH business school graduate contributed $100,000 last week to establish the Cindy Doan and Hy So Duong Endowed Scholarship.

Despite slower growth projections at the national level, the economic growth projections for Hawaiʻi remain unchanged at 3.2% for 2022.

The Maui Filipino Chamber of Commerce is holding its upcoming business mixer June 3 at the Sabado Art Gallery Wailuku, with world renowned local artist Philip Sabado as its featured guest.

The Maui Filipino Chamber of Commerce is accepting nominations for the 2022 Gintong Pamana Leadership Awards to recognize members of the Maui Filipino community with outstanding achievements, demonstrations of leadership, professional excellence and service to the community.

Proceeds from the 11th annual Festival were gifted to 11 nonprofit partners, including nine ʻāina-based organizations that collaborated with HFWF to provide hands-on volunteer experiences through the Festival’s Mālama ʻĀina program.

The Maui Ocean Center hosts twice weekly Aquari-OM yoga classes, with a portion of proceeds from ticket sales to support coral reservation and sea turtle rescue efforts on Maui.

For the first time since the pandemic struck Hawai’i, monthly visitor arrivals to Maui County exceeded historic highs set in 2019. 

The four-session program offered through MEO’s Business Development Center covers budgeting and savings, basic banking, applying for jobs, credit and its importance and more.

The Maui Chamber of Commerce is accepting nominations for the Annual Mayor’s Small Business Awards in 2022. All nominees and winners will be honored during an event to be held in October.

Central Pacific Bank announced the hire of Jacob Simons as its new Private Banking Team Manager for Maui.

Faherty recently opened its first Hawaiʻi store at The Shops at Wailea in South Maui. The men, women and children’s clothing brand opened the store with a 1950s nostalgia theme and features the new Pura Vida summer collection. 

In a collaborative event called “The Real Deal,” UH-Maui College graphic design students pitched their logo designs May 9 to Maui Economic Opportunity business planning class entrepreneurs.