Posted on: Tuesday, November 2, 2004
BUSINESS BRIEFS
AOL founder to speak Nov. 10
Advertiser Staff
America Online co-founder Steve Case will be the keynote speaker at the Hawaii Business Top 250 luncheon Nov. 10 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village.
Case, a Honolulu native and major investor in Grove Farm of Kauai, and Maui Land & Pineapple, will discuss his investments in the Islands and ways to combine respect for the native culture and environment with job creation and economic growth.
The state Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism in partnership with the U.S. ASEAN Business Council will make a presentation Nov. 17 on opportunities for Hawai'i businesses in Southeast Asia.
The presentation at the Hilton Hawaiian Village will follow the 2004 Asia-Pacific Homeland Security Summit & Exposition being held Sunday through Nov. 17. In 2003, two-way trade between the United States and the Association of Southeast Asian Nation's 10 member countries surpassed $120 billion.
S.E. Asian trade topic of event
