Kamakura Corp. signs marketing deal

Honolulu businessman Donald van Deventer will be spending more time in Hawaii thanks to a new marketing agreement signed with an international financial software firm. Under the deal, Atlanta-based IPS-Sendero will market and support bank software created by van Deventer's firm Kamakura Corp. IPS-Sendero has licensed software products to more than 3,400 organizations in 51 countries.

On its own, Kamakura has recently sold its risk management software to Shinsei Bank of Japan, Daihan Investment & Trust Co. of South Korea and National Australia Bank. Kamakura originally came to Honolulu from Tokyo in 1997, when van Deventer moved headquarters to the state's Manoa Innovation Center. In March, Kamakura completed the sale of $2.5 million in privately traded common stock. IPS-Sendero is a unit of Brookfield, Wisc.-based information management company Fiserv Inc.Stocks

Air Canada to boost Hawaii seat capacity

Hawaii will get extra airline seats from Canada this fall as a result of a boost in Air Canada's Australia service. Starting Nov. 3, the airline will introduce Toronto-Honolulu-Melbourne service with three flights a week, using 212-seat Boeing 767-300 aircraft.

Besides adding the Toronto-Honolulu link on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, the new service will also be the only direct flights by any airline between Honolulu and Melbourne. The airline said it will also increase capacity on its existing daily Vancouver-Honolulu-Sydney service by replacing the 212-seat Boeings in that service with the 284-seat Airbus A340. That change and the Toronto service together will add 1,140 seats a week between Canada and Hawaii.

Workplace deaths decline in 2000, report says

WASHINGTON >> An average of 16 U.S. workers were killed on the job each day last year, a decline of about 2 percent overall, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported yesterday. Despite an increase in overall employment, total reported fatal work injuries fell to 5,915 in 2000, the bureau said.

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NEW JOBS

>> Terry Yasuhara has been named general manager at The Shores at Waikoloa, an Aston Hotels and Resorts property on the Big Island. He will oversee resort operations and the property's apartment owners association. Yasuhara served as general manager at the Kona Reef Resort before joining Aston.

>> Jonathan Kim has been named general manager at Windward Mall. Before joining Windward Mall, Kim was property manager at the Hawaii Kai Towne Center and the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center. He is a graduate of the University of Hawaii.

>> Patrick Saito has been named chef de cuisine at the Hawaii Calls Restaurant in the Outrigger Waikoloa Beach Hotel. Saito was previously employed at the Mauna Lani Bay and Bungalows' Canoe House Restaurant. He is a graduate of Kapiolani Community College.

PROMOTIONS

>> Verizon Wireless has announced Harvey Yasuda will serve as retail store manager at the Verizon Wireless store in Pacific Guardian Tower. A 20-year veteran of the retail industry, he has been with Verizon since 1999.

>> Sean Huh has been named retail store manager at AT&T Wireless' Kahului outlet. He has been with AT&T Wireless since 1999.