Reported by Star-Bulletin staff & wire
Friday, January 7, 2000
Comm-Pac promotes Hoffman to president
Alan Hoffman has been promoted to president of Communications-Pacific Inc., a leading Hawaii public relations, communications and marketing consultancy firm.Hoffman joined the company in 1996 as a vice president after 23 years at KHON-TV, where he was responsible for broadcast programming, budgeting, producing and directing television shows, and network relations. Kitty Lagareta, Communications-Pacific chairman and CEO, said Hoffman has played a critical role in the company's recent development.
Builder's equipment to be auctioned
Equipment used by Oahu Construction Co. will be auctioned off Jan. 20, in hopes of raising most of the $10 million that the company owes Bank of Hawaii. Oahu Construction filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization Sept. 9.Rabin Brothers Auctioneers, the San Francisco firm retained to handle the sale, said the equipment includes Caterpillar earthmovers, hydraulic excavators and more than 100 trucks. One piece, a portable rock-crushing plant, should fetch $450,000, the auctioneers said. The equipment can be viewed Jan. 17-19 at the Oahu Construction's Ocean Point project site and the sale itself will be by catalog and video at the Blaisdell Center. The company said bids can also be submitted electronically at that time through the auctioneers' Web site, www.rabin.com.
Ex-Hawaiian Air CEO joins Las Vegas firm
Bruce R. Nobles, who pulled Hawaiian Airlines Inc. out of financial difficulties as its president and CEO from 1994 to 1997, has a new job as national director of transportation at PurchasePro.com Inc., a Las Vegas-based business-to-business e-commerce provider. Nobles will expand the company into the transportation field, using the Internet to link sellers of goods and services with their customers in airlines, trucking and other fields.