Local support at heart of Hali‘imaile’s success – The Maui News

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PUKALANI – Just a half year into its existence, Hali’imaile Pineapple Co. is operating "in the black" and hiring more employees, said Doug MacCluer, part owner of the company and a member of its board of directors.

"It’s manini, but we’re showing a profit," MacCluer said Thursday evening after providing an update on the company during a meeting of the Governor’s Council of Neighbor Island Advisors for Maui at the Mayor Hannibal Tavares Community Center.

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The company is filling a void left by Maui Pineapple Co., which closed and laid off 285 employees Dec. 31, after sustaining multimillion-dollar losses. As recently as 2008, Maui Pine employed 659 workers.

"We thought we could straighten out a big mess, and it was a big mess," MacCluer said.

So far, Hali’imaile Pineapple has generated $3.2 million in revenue – before taxes and farmland rents to Maui Land & Pineapple Co.

Most of the revenue has gone to Hali’imaile Pineapple employees, who belong to the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, MacCluer said.

Haliimaile Pineapple Co. Officials to Discuss Operations | Maui Now

Posted by Wendy Osher

Executives with the newly established Haliimaile Pineapple Company will discuss the company’s operations at the upcoming meeting of the Governor’s Council of Neighbor Island Advisors for Maui.  Company board member, Doug MacCluer will speak on the company’s hiring of former Maui Land and Pineapple Company employees, and the effect of the state’s water commission decision on the pineapple business and land owners.

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The meeting is set for Thursday, June 17th at 5 p.m. in Pukalani at the Mayor Hannibal Tavares Community Center.

Governor Linda Lingle created councils of neighbor island advisors to give neighbor island residents a stronger voice in state government. The Governor’s Council of Neighbor Island Advisors for Maui holds monthly public meetings to seek community input, advise the Governor issues of importance in the outlying counties, and make recommendations for state boards and commissions.

The members of the Governor’s Council of Neighbor Island Advisors for Maui are Madge Schaefer (chair), Kathryn Ghean (vice chair), John Henry, Lori Ululani Sablas, Gail K. Takeuchi and Leona Rocha Wilson.

The meeting is open to the public.

| Maui Now

Pineapple Plant Auction

Public Auction: Pineapple Plant of excess equipment no longer needed for current operations

Auction Date: Tuesday, March 23 at 10am – at Maui Beach Hotel in Kahului Maui

Previews/inspection on Monday, March 22, 9am – 4pm (at 3 locations or by appointment)

– 120 Kane Street, Kahului, 870 Haliimaile Rd. Makawao, 4900 L. Honoapiilani Hwy, Honolua Baseyard

Items for auction: Pineapple Processing & Cannery, Agriculture Equipment, Power Plant Generators, Trucks & Trailers, Facility Equipment, Machine Shop, Lab & R&D Equipment, Distribution Warehouse.

Auction information at www.greatamerican.com or 818-884-3747 ext. 1330

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR – The Maui News

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SUPPORT NEW COMPANY BY BUYING PINEAPPLE

Well, it’s a new year and the first thing I would like to do is say thank you to all involved in the new Haliimaile Pineapple venture. Kudos to all for keeping this legacy alive and the jobs that go with it.

I will buy one pineapple a week, and I urge the rest of the Maui community to do so as well. We must help prove that agriculture can thrive here on Maui, so I ask all of you to join me in this.

Big mahalo to the Erdmans and everyone involved.

Just one pineapple a week: I will, will you?

Tim Garcia

Makawao

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Pine land to cost $420K a year | The Honolulu Advertiser

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By Rick Daysog
Advertiser Staff Writer

A group that plans to restore pineapple growing on Maui will pay $420,000 a year to lease agricultural lands held by Maui Land & Pineapple Co.

Haliimaile Pineapple Co. also will pay $680,000 to purchase ML&P’s farm equipment, supplies and customer lists, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

ML&P announced in November that it was shutting down pineapple operations after nearly 100 years of plantation-scale farming on the Valley Isle. The company harvested its final crop last month and laid off 206 workers.

But Haliimaile — whose principals include former ML&P executives Doug MacCluer and Ed Chenchin and Ulupalakua Ranch owner Pardee Erdman — said last week they plan restore pineapple farming on 950 acres of ML&P’s 3,000-acre pineapple operations .

The new company said it also will take over ML&P’s Maui Gold brand and will hire back 66 displaced pineapple workers.