Thursday, January 29, 2015
Business
Longtime Honolulu restaurateur Dave Stewart will shut down Brasserie Du Vin after service Saturday due to a lease dispute with Plumbers and Fitters Union Local 675, which owns the property. Story »
The remarkable turnaround from a near collapse six years ago keeps gaining momentum. Fueled by its seventh straight quarter of double-digit loan growth, CPB said it will increase its dividend for the second time in less than a year after its net income jumped 28.8 percent in the October-December period. Story »
Legislators pressed NextEra Energy Inc., the Florida-based energy company hoping to purchase Hawaiian Electric Industries, for details of how the mainland company will lower electric rates and by when. Story »
BUSINESS BREAKING NEWS
Hyatt and Orbitz create vacation package website • Isle restaurants make ‘most romantic' list • Contest could boost local small businesses • Ferraris to star at new Lunch Bunch venue • Car show returns to TV Saturday • Short circuits spark recall of Nissan SUVs • Nissan to install 1,000 charging stations • Ship Ahoy! Story »
From small Christmas craft fairs at a friend's house, Valerie Bigelow's Island Girl Collection made a big leap to be at the first Made in Maui County Festival in November. Story »
Tobacco continues to be big business — a $35 billion market — but electronic cigarettes are burning away at the market share. E-cigarettes are booming. New technologies claim reduced adverse health effects compared with tobacco smoking. Story »
How do you welcome a new radio personality who's moved from New York to Hawaii? Today it might be an ad campaign on radio and TV. But in 1959 the United States' youngest program director had a different idea: Keep him awake for eight days in a department store window. Story »
If you have an email address, you've probably been the target of a phishing scam. Online phishes are social attacks delivered through email or a website that attempt to scam potential victims into divulging sensitive information such as logins, passwords or personal information. Story »
A restaurant named Lanai Cafe is about to open, not on Isla Ellison in the Hawaiian archipelago, but in the chic Gangnam district of Seoul, which was popularized by a global pop hit. Story »
“Akamai Money” seeks out local experts to answer questions about business in Hawaii. If you have an issue you would like us to tackle, please email it to business@staradvertiser.com and put “Akamai Money” in the subject line. Story »
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