Posted on: Friday, June 10, 2005
BUSINESS BRIEFS
DBEDT official named deputy
Advertiser Staff and News Services
Mark Kuikawa Anderson has been named deputy director of the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism after serving as acting deputy since January.
He previously served as administrator of Foreign Trade Zone 9, a division of DBEDT. He also worked in the department's Investment Attraction Branch as an economic development specialist, a role in which he focused on increasing capital investment into the state and supported foreign trade missions to Asia.
Anderson also was a member of the Hawaii/Pacific Region District Export Council, to which he was appointed in 2000 by the U.S. secretary of commerce.
He was raised in Pa'auilo on the Big Island, and on O'ahu. He is a graduate of the University of Washington and Punahou School.
ML Macadamia Orchards said the company declared a quarterly cash distribution of 5 cents per share at the June 2005 meeting of the board of directors of its general partner, ML Resources Inc.
The distribution matches previous ones and will be paid on Aug. 15 to the unit holders of record as of June 30.
It was the firm's 77th consecutive quarterly distribution dating back to the company's founding in 1986.
ML distribution 5 cents a share
