Source: Maui Time, Maui News, Best of Maui, Maui Activities

By the Numbers

June 18, 2009

$400 million

Amount Sandwich Isles Communications is offering to purchase Hawaiian Telcom, which filed for bankruptcy last year

$1.1 million

Tax revenue that will be generated by a National Science Foundation conference at the Hawaii Convention Center later this month

4

Number of new TV ads created by Hormel Foods Corp., which show a can of Spam bursting into boring situations to excite anthropomorphic food items

1

Number of hits yielded by a Google search for “Spam is exciting”

Sources: Hormel Foods Corp., Google.com, Honolulu Advertiser, Pacific Business News