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     Maui Land & Pineapple

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     Hawaiian Telcom

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    Monsanto Hawai'i

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    Alexander & Baldwin

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    Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

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    Maui Electric Co.

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    Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co.

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Makena Resort

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    Dowling Co.

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Trex Enterprises





Biggest news this week is Makena Resort's move out of the cellar.

Not far, but a little bit's better than nothing. The reason, naturally,

has to do with Slurpees. See, the 7-Eleven convenience store

giant—which for some reason only has two stores on Maui—just decided to

become the largest retail conglomerate in Japan. To do so, 7-Eleven's

parent company Seven & I Holdings, Inc. had to buy Millennium

Retailing, Inc., which owns the Japanese Seibu and Sogo department

store chains. The Seibu name is key: Millennium Retailing recently

teamed up with the massive Seibu Railway Company, which among many

other holdings owns Makena Resort. And in other news, Maui Land &

Pineapple's successful efforts to shove squatters out of its Haile

Maile village keeps that landowner in the top slot. MTW