BUSINESS BRIEFS
Honsador picks Liliequist as CEO
Advertiser Staff
Carl A. Liliequist has been appointed chief executive officer of Honsador Holding LLC, Hawai'i's leading building materials supplier, the company announced yesterday.
Liliequist fills the position vacated by James A. Pappas, Honsador's prior owner, when the company was sold in November 2004. Liliequist is a 28-year veteran of Huttig Building Products Inc., one of the nation's largest distributors of building materials, wood products and millwork with sales in excess of $1 billion.
Most recently, Liliequist served as executive vice president of sales and operations, where he was responsible for Huttig's 49 locations across the U.S. and approximately 2,000 employees. Liliequist has begun the transition into his new position and will officially assume his duties Jan. 1.
BIOTECH GROUP HOSTS SUMMIT
The Biotechnology Industry Organization will host its first Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy Jan. 11-13 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort and Spa.
BIO is sponsoring the conference in conjunction with the state, the University of Hawai'i, the Hawaii Life Sciences Council, Enterprise Honolulu and the Oceanic Institute. The purpose of the conference is to highlight the emerging field of industrial biotechnology, which is being used to convert agricultural wastes to renewable energy and to make many types of manufacturing processes more environmentally sustainable.
STATE'S JOBLESS NUMBERS DROP
Hawai'i continues to rank among the states with the fewest number of residents filing claims for unemployment insurance, the U.S. Labor Department reported today.
Approximately 1,000 residents filed first-time claims for the week of Nov. 5, down from 1,200 during the same week a year ago. The Hawai'i claims comprised just 0.3 percent of the total claims filed nationally. Only four states had fewer claims as a percentage of the national total.
