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ON MAY 2, Nau, a trendy and fast-growing apparel maker, dropped a bombshell on its 95 employees. It suddenly announced it was out of business, closing its five stores and [...]

RICHARD HA TENDS not to take himself too seriously. The founder of Hamakua Springs Country Farms, a 600-acre banana and vegetable farm on Hawaii's Big Island, once showed up wearing [...]

ChipIn, now known as Sprout, offers widgets, which are software that carry music and hyperlinks that are distributed by copying a code and pasting it to a website or blog. ChipIn raises money by providing tools on widget fundraising. Other details about Sprout are discussed.

BILL RANDLE is a survivor. A bank executive turned tech entrepreneur, Randle has managed to keep his software start-up alive for nearly eight years against all odds. There was the [...]

VAMPIRES, WEREWOLVES, AND ... widgets? Don't laugh. That combination of old-world monsters and cutting-edge Web technology created a booming business for Carnet Williams and his fledgling company, ChipIn. But it [...]

AROUND MIDNIGHT on October 15, a shipping container filled with toy action figures left Hong Kong aboard a 'K' Line vessel bound for Long Beach, California. Back in Philadelphia, Mahender […]

Think of those as Sales 1.0. WE'RE NOW IN THE ERA OF SALES 2.0 Your bottom line may never be the same REMEMBER THE BAD OLD DAYS of sales-oriented technology? [...]

The bodyboarder Josh Wills loves getting tubed in the surf. As a three-time U.S. bodyboarding champ, the Hawaii native has become a fixture at world-class breaks around the Islands. And […]

From New York to Nagasaki, from London to Los Angeles, ladies love Vera Wang. The Big Apple designer is the world's most sought-after wedding dress designer. So when Halekulani Corp. [...]

Ten suggestions are presented of places around the world to spend Christmas. They include Rome, Italy; the Victoria Falls and the Indian resort of Goa.

Silicon Valley venture capitalist Dick Grey first got to know Hawaii as an Army brat. Now he wants to build Hawaii's minuscule venture capital base into something respectable through his [...]

There hasn't been major movement in the Top 250 this year. But look closely, and a pattern begins to emerge. It suggests that we're about to enter a period of [...]

Three famous Hawaii chefs have built restaurant empires over the last decade. Their success is all the more remarkable given the high odds of failure in the restaurant business. But [...]

A sea change is taking place in the business of death and dying. Some of Hawaii's biggest mortuaries are now controlled by fast-growing mainland groups. Analysts say the race is [...]

Experienced travelers may think there is little left in Hawaii that is yet undiscovered by tourists, but this is not so. Twenty-five things are listed that are still relatively secret and out of the way, including hotels, beaches, trails, and events on six Hawaiian islands.

University of Hawaii President Kenneth Mortimer arrived with a reputation as an expert in the delicate art of downsizing and restructuring. Has he lived up to his billing? On May [...]

With a new insurance plan and an eye on the future, Kapiolani Health is a rapidly rising force in the health care industry. But is the company's rapid growth sustainable [...]

More than 40 years ago, Robert Iwamoto, Jr. was driving cars for his dad's fledgling tour business. Now, as CEO of Robert's Hawaii Inc., he's at the wheel of Hawaii's [...]

When Stanley Hong took over the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, it was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy and struggling with self-definition. Now, after 15 months of tumultuous restructuring, [...]

The Maui Research & Technology Center is nearly full with but five years after its founding it still hasn't produced a single major start-up success locally. Now the center and [...]

Which of Hawaii's publicly traded companies make the best use of shareholders' money? Hawaii Business comes out with the winners. Looking for a performance winner from among Hawaii's public companies? [...]

Tourism turned what could have been a disastrous year into a merely mediocre one for a jumbled Top 250. It was a thumbs-sideways year. Wage growth was stagnant, small business [...]

After years of losses, American Hawaii Cruises officials are again saying the cruise line is headed for calmer waters. Are they right this time? When Jim Nobles came on board [...]

By offering the lowest airtime rates in the nation, Ameritech is beating GTE Mobilnet in the Kauai cellular market. Next question: Can either company turn a profit? Among telecommunications executives [...]

After a decade of growth, Grove Farm Co. is now faced with stalled projects, sagging profits and unprecedented layoffs. Can new CEO Guido Giacometti turn things around? When Guido Giacometti [...]

Its founder removed by tragedy, Gentry Homes has been forced to redraft its corporate blueprint. Sixteen months ago, Norman Dyer and George Weir might have been passing acquaintances. Now they're [...]

Professor Dennis Ogawa's Japanese cable station broke even before it went on the air. Fifteen years later, Nippon Golden Network is one of Hawaii's most successful premium channels. He is [...]

Every month or two, seven economic experts meet to forecast how much money the state won't see in future tax revenues. The Council on Revenues is a job nobody in [...]

For the brother of marine artist Wyland, getting back to nature has been an $18 million experience. The first thing you notice about Bill Wyland is what he isn't wearing. [...]

Despite signs that GTE Mobilnet at last is gaining on Honolulu Cellular, rapid developments in their industry promise new challenges for both. Honolulu Cellular, #135, and GTE Mobilnet, #138. In [...]

After a herculean accomplishment building up eight Gold's Gyms in California, Odd Haugen has transferred the heart of his business to Hawaii. Odd Haugen lifts heavy. A former pro football [...]

Some businesses are suffering and others prospering in Kauai's up-and-down post-Iniki economy. From a small office in the Sheraton Kauai, Margy Parker of the Poipu Beach Resort Association extolls the [...]

After five years, the Hawaii Strategic Development Corp. has its first venture capital deal. But can its new moneyman make the islands less formidable for start-ups? Randy Havre runs up [...]

You don't need a visa to visit Maui, but you might want to bring your passport. Maui Passport, that is. Since January, American Airlines and the Maui Visitors Bureau have [...]

Is this Maui's Year of the Women? A first-ever confluence has brought women to five of the county's most powerful posts. It has Hawaii's most extensive bikepath system, highest recycling [...]

IF YOU THINK the life of a chocolatier sounds like heaven, you had better check in with Dan Johnson, owner of Choco-Logo, a maker of gourmet chocolates in Buffalo. Johnson's [...]

The K ona Brewing Co. (KBC) is already selling its brews in four cities in Florida and 17 other states and Japan as well. . KBC is currently forming a deal with Red Hook to produce Longboard Lager and other KBC brews at Red Hooks' brewery in in New Hampshire. KBC's chief executive officer Mattson Davis shares KBC's best practic es for success.

RICK DETKOWSKI WAS in the real estate business, and when Kim Beattie walked into his Clarkston Mini Storage facility in April of 2006, real estate is what Beattie wanted to […]

IT WAS THE beer scare of April 2004--when Boulevard Brewing came dose to running out of brew--that got the fast-growing company contemplating its future. Boulevard, a regional brewer that bills […]

ON AUGUST 21, 2005, Terry Wyman-Picurro received a devastating phone call. It was her ex-husband, Peter Picurro. He had just been arrested, he said, for soliciting a detective posing as […]