BUSINESS BRIEFS
Convention site marketing lauded
Advertiser Staff
A survey conducted on behalf of the Hawai'i Convention Center gave Hawai'i high marks as a choice for a vacation destination and convention site.
The METROPOLL XIII survey released this week credited part of that success to the Hawai'i Convention Center's marketing.
Hawai'i ranked in the top 10 among 40 destinations surveyed.
"Hawai'i has maintained its reputation for good meeting facilities," said Kansas-based marketing consultant Gerard Murphy.
Marketing activities included trade-publication ads, calls from the convention center's sales staff, and trade booth and Web site visits.
Hawai'i's Internet advertising is also strong, ranking sixth on both Web site visits and among those who viewed Internet ads.
ISLE FIRM AWARDED MISSOURI CONTRACT
WATTS Constructors LLC, the Honolulu-based affiliate of giant Iowa general building contractor The Weitz Co., has been awarded a $67.7 million contract to design and build a military trainee barracks in Missouri.
The award made by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is for barracks at Fort Leonard Wood, a 63,000-acre facility that trains soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and international students. Project construction is expected to be completed by August 2009.
WATTS, formerly a California-based company known as Miller/Watts Constructors Inc. that merged with Weitz in 2006, said it will handle project design, management and safety oversight from Hawai'i. The company also has offices in California, Washington, Florida and Guam.
KAMAKURA TEAMS WITH EXPORT FIRM
Kamakura Corp., a Honolulu-based provider of risk management information and software, said Export Development Canada had licensed its risk management software system for credit portfolio management.
Kamakura said its New York office is performing systems integration on the project. Export Development Canada is an export credit agency.
MEDICAL CENTER GIVEN GO! TICKETS
Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women & Children said interisland airline go! has donated 20 roundtrip tickets to help Neighbor Island families that have babies or children being treated at the hospital.
The medical center said the donation was the second by go! The airline earlier donated 40 roundtrip tickets.
