BUSINESS BRIEFS
Waikiki now on Monopoly board
Advertiser Staff
Waikiki Beach has earned a spot on the latest Monopoly board. The new "Here & Now" edition replaces game-board spaces named after streets in Atlantic City, N.J., with landmarks from 22 U.S. cities. Waikiki Beach will replace Indiana Avenue.
Prices also have been updated. Indiana Avenue cost $220, but Waikiki Beach goes for $2.2 million. New York's Times Square is the new Boardwalk in the Hasbro Inc. board game set to arrive at stores tomorrow.
More than 3 million Internet votes were cast in a survey in which Hasbro asked consumers to select the new board spaces. Other new spaces include the Golden Gate Bridge, the White House and Disney World. The railroads were replaced with the busiest airports, and new tokens include a laptop computer and a labradoodle dog.
More than 250 million copies of Monopoly have been sold in 80 countries and 26 languages since its introduction in 1935, Hasbro said.
JACK IN THE BOX SELLS ISLE OUTLETS
Jack in the Box said today it has completed the sale of 25 company-owned restaurants in Hawai'i to local fast-food executive Chris Scanlan for $19 million.
Scanlan, president and chief executive of Scanlan Management, also signed a development agreement to add an undisclosed number of Jack in the Box restaurants in the Islands, the first of which is scheduled to open Oct. 1 in Waipahu.
SPRINT LAYS OFF 15 ON O'AHU
Sprint Nextel said it has laid off 15 employees at its Dillingham Boulevard office.
The company said in a Sept. 1 filing with the state Labor Department that the cuts represent about a quarter of the Dillingham office's 60-member staff. Sprint said the layoffs took effect on Aug. 31.
