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The Maui 10
Who’s the county’s most powerful player?

by By Anthony Pignataro

March 02, 2006

RANK PREVIOUS COMPANY



1 4 Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation



2 5 Maui Land & Pineapple



3 1 Hawaiian Telcom



4 2 Maui Electric Co.



5 3 Trex Enterprises



6 6 Alexander & Baldwin



7 7 Monsanto Hawai’i



8 8 Wailuku Agribusiness



9 9 Dowling Co.



10 10 Makena Resort







You gotta love the Weinberg Foundation—You Must!  After all, they just donated $2.5 million to the Molokai General Hospital’s renovation fund. You can’t buy publicity this good—oops, maybe you can. And bully for Maui Land—they made $14.6 million in 2005—up from losing $385,000 in 2004! But Hawaiian Telcom drops a couple notches on news that it wants to enter the local cable TV market. And that’s a bad move, because I don’t know a single person who has good things to say about his or her cable provider. MTW