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The debut salon in Akakū’s new Maui Business Tuesdays series will spotlight three Maui Hawaiian fashion designers, featuring businesses Kūlua, Henohea Hawaii and Pulelehua Boutique.

Queen Kaʻahumanu Center has introduced two new locally owned businesses to its shopping center, The Beauty Backbar Academy and Hustle Gear Maui.

Ten more entrepreneurs from Maui County will be featured at the 2025 Made in Hawai‘i Festival as part of a new partnership between the state and local business support organizations.

The Maui Chamber of Commerce is now accepting nominations for the 2025 Mayor’s Small Business Awards, which recognize outstanding small businesses in Maui County.

The monthly Kīhei 4th Friday event was bustling on Black Friday with people holiday shopping from the local small business vendors set up in the Azeka Shopping Center parking lot.

Nineteen companies throughout Hawaiʻi participated in the 5th cohort of preX, a free 4-week, online investment readiness and business scaling program.

The 2021 Mayor’s Small Business Awards that were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic now will be held on March 30, with all nominees and winners honored during a ceremony at the Maui Beach Hotel in Kahului.

AARP Hawaiʻi conducted a survey in 2021 to find out how small businesses feel about legislation that would create a state-facilitated retirement savings program.

The results of the newly released Third Hawai‘i Commercial Rent Survey (HCRS) reveal key sectors of Hawai‘i’s economy continue to suffer financially as the COVID-19 pandemic drags on — and despite implementation of state and county aid programs in late 2020.

The monthly Sunset Market at Wailea Village is hosting a special Sunset “Holiday” Market on Dec. 17 with a toy drive benefitting IMUA Family Services from 4 to 7 pm.

The Maui Chamber of Commerce has extended the deadline for nominations to Nov. 11 at 4 pm for the 2020 Annual Mayor’s Small Business Awards. Nomination forms are available online at www.mauichamber.com.

The annual Maui SBA Awards and Economic Update Luncheon will be held on Thursday, April 26, at the King Kamehameha Golf Club in Waikapū.

The featured business owners “talked story” about their road to success and the challenges of running a business on Maui

This year’s event will focus on Maui-based agribusinesses and businesses that support the ecosystem of local farmers and ranchers.

The workshop brought Kamehameha Schools Maui alumni who are local business owners into the classroom to share their start-up and business experiences

The workshop will bring Kamehameha Schools alumni, as well as local business owners, into the classroom to share their start-up and business experiences

In the past year, the Internal Revenue Service has noted a sharp increase in the number of fraudulent Forms 1120, 1120S and 1041 as well as Schedule K-1.

HPEC and DBEDT will educate Hawaiʻi’s small businesses on how to grow and succeed globally.

The DBEDT announced the launch of a program designed to help local small businesses increase their exports.

The County of Maui Mayor’s Office of Economic Development hosts a series of free workshops for the month of October.