Michael and Sonja Mcginnis Owners of Divine Planet Please tell us about your business. Divine Planet sells everything from jewelry and women’s clothing to home décor, crafting materials and gift items it’s a pretty wide gamut. The style is “Kaua’i Zen.” We focus on products that have some sort of significance, whether it’s a warm-andfuzzy [...]
By Sundey Dillberg Owner, Organic Functional Fitness Tell us about your business. Organic Functional Fitness is so much more than a fitness studio. O.F.F. is a place that makes change happen. We offer private sessions, personally designed “Booty Camps” and onehour group classes that focus on “functional training,” which uses one’s own body weight to [...]
Jack and Kay Leonard Owners of Kauai Gymnastics Academy Please tell us about your business. Jack: Kaua’i Gymnastics Academy, located in Puhi, teaches gymnastics a sport that’s also a fitness activity by working every joint and muscle in the body. There is a different rhythm for each age level that we teach. We teach all [...]
By Luke Evslin Owner, Kamanu Composites Tell us about your business. Kamanu Composites is an Oahu-based manufacturing company. We build outrigger canoes. How did you get started in this business and how long has it been going? My two original partners (Kelly Foster and Keizo Gates, also from Kaua’i) and I have been dreaming of [...]
Dorina San Augustine Co-owner of Crush Boutique Please tell us about your business. Crush is an islandinspired, girly boutique located in Kapa’a at the Kaua’i Village Shopping Center next to Longs. We offer children’s clothing little girls’ and little boys’ sizes 2 to 6 a lot of which is locally made. We also have cute, [...]
Jim Saylor Owner, Jim Saylor Jewelers Please tell us about your business. We are a master goldsmith located in Kapa’a. We design and make everything right here. What we do is help people celebrate great moments in their lives anniversaries, weddings, special gifts and commemorating birthdays or trips to Hawai’i. We work primarily in gold [...]
By Karin Carswell Owner of Princeville Ranch Adventures Please tell us about your business. We started with horseback riding tours in 1978. We now offer horseback riding, ziplining, hiking, kayaking and we have a Kids’ Adventure Center all on a working cattle ranch. We also sell local grass-finished beef at various North Shore markets. Where [...]
Rachail Running Horse Owner, Internal Healing Center Tell us about your business. I own and operate Internal Healing Center, which offers colon hydrotherapy, also known as colonics. I also have a 3-foot-tall assistant: my daughter, Remedy Running Horse. She’s 2-and-a-half. Colon hydrotherapy is a cleansing treatment for your intestine that flushes out toxins and impurities [...]
Darci Frankel Owner, Hanalei Day Spa Please tell us about your business. We are a modest boutique day spa. Our focus is on customer service and giving great body treatments. We offer what I call massages of the world, from Ayurveda massage to Zen shiatsu from A to Z. We also offer Hawaiian-style lomi lomi [...]
By Percy Higashi President and Chief Operating Officer, Roberts Hawaii This year marks the 70th anniversary of Roberts Hawaii. What began in 1941 as a one-man taxi business in Hanapepe has grown over three generations to become one of Hawaii’s largest employee-owned companies, with approximately 1,400 employees and 900 vehicles on Kaua’i, Oahu, Maui and [...]
