By Staff Reports
(Maui) — The Mayor’s Office of Economic Development
and the Maui Chamber of Commerce are pleased to announce the nominees
for the upcoming 2018 Mayor’s Small Business Awards.
All nominees and winners will be honored at an awards dinner on Friday,
March 9, 2018, at the Waikapu Ballroom of the King Kamehameha Golf Club.
Tickets are available to the public at $79 and can be purchased online
at www.mauichamber.com or by calling the Maui Chamber of Commerce at
(808) 244-0081 on or before Friday, March 2, 2018. Reserved tables of 10
are also available for $750. For more information, please contact the
Maui County Business Resource Center at 270-5767 or the Maui Chamber of
Commerce at 244-0081.
The 2018 Mayor’s Small Business Awards nominees fall under five award
categories as follows:
Exceptional Small Business of the Year (10 or fewer employees):
Coconut Condos
Manakai Swimwear LLC
Positive Apparel, LLC
Pure Barre Maui
Wailuku Market LLC dba Kaohu Store
Yanagida Strength & Fitness LLC
Exceptional Small Business of the Year (11 to 35 employees):
Blue Ginger Café
Haynes Publishing Group
Mid-Pacific Pest Control, Inc.
Young Small Business Person of the Year (under age 40 as of March 9,
2018):
Cody Clark (Climbing HI LLC)
Kimo Clark (Truth Excavation)
Shaun Bayles (Emerald Kitchen LLC dba Chic Naturals)
Walle and Rebecca Hutton (Pome Maui)
Outstanding Non-Profit Business:
Hale Mahaolu
Maui Humane Society
Maui Memorial Medical Center Foundation
Nisei Veterans Memorial Center
Pacific Cancer Foundation
Lifetime Achievement Award (for any individual doing business in Maui
County for more than 20 years; no limit on number of employees):
Erlinda Rosario (McDonald’s of Maui, Hawaii)
Johanna Kuuleilokelani Shin Amorin (Jobline Xpress Inc.)
The Mayor’s Small Business Awards recognize outstanding businesses in
our community that have 100 or fewer employees and have had a Hawaii
General Excise Tax license for no fewer than two years. Other criteria
include demonstrating business leadership in a changing economic
environment, creating a quality work environment for their employees,
exhibiting the aloha spirit and exemplary customer service, developing
partnerships with other sectors of the community, and demonstrating
other exceptional qualities or traits.
For more information, please contact the Maui County Business Resource
Center at 270-5767 or the Maui Chamber of Commerce at 244-0081.