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Reported by Star-Bulletin staff & wire
Friday, January 5, 2001
Black Press to hold job fair next week
The buyer of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin will hold a job fair on Jan. 13 as it seeks to fill more than 100 openings at an expanded, independent newspaper operation.Oahu Publications, a unit of Victoria, British Columbia-based Black Press Ltd., has scheduled the fair from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Restaurant Row office next to Burger King. Positions are available in accounting, advertising sales, advertising design, telemarketing and circulation. Job applicants should bring their resumes.
Black Press will take over the Star-Bulletin on March 16, ending the paper's joint business operations with the Honolulu Advertiser. The company also is buying Kaneohe-based RFD Publications, which owns MidWeek and has about 140 employees.
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United set to begin new S.F.-Maui flight
United Airlines said today it will start a third daily San Francisco-Maui flight Feb. 15, using a 182-seat Boeing 757 jet with 24 seats in first class and 158 in economy.Flight 43 will leave San Francisco at 11 a.m. and arrive at Kahului Airport at 1:13 p.m. Today's announcement is confirmation of a plan United mentioned in October, when the airline said it would drop its direct Chicago-Honolulu service in February. United has three daily Los Angeles-Maui flights and also serves Kona and Kauai in addition to its seven West Coast-Honolulu flights each day, for a total mainland-Hawaii service of 19 flights a day.
Nordstrom earnings to miss expectations
SEATTLE -- Nordstrom Inc. said fiscal fourth-quarter earnings will miss analysts' estimates after the department-store chain's December sales fell 2.9 percent at stores open at least a year. Nordstrom expects to report earnings of 18 cents to 23 cents for the quarter ending Jan. 31. The Seattle-based company, under new management led by Nordstrom family members, was forecast to earn 38 cents, the average estimate of analysts surveyed by First Call/ Thomson Financial.U.S. retailers were hurt by the worst holiday sales season in five years as a slowdown in the economy damped spending.
