Reported by Star-Bulletin staff & wire
Wednesday, May 7, 1997
The Waikiki Oahu Visitors Association said it plans to open its own office and have its own full-time staff. HVCB's Waikiki branch
plans own office, staffThe association is the Oahu chapter of the Hawaii Visitors & Convention Bureau and operates separately from the HVCB, like the neighbor island chapters. David Carey, WOVA president, said the group is searching for an executive director to run the 14-year-old association, which has a $2.7 million annual budget to promote Oahu.
The Kiely Co. has been running WOVA under a contract at the company's office. Tom Kiely, president of the management and marketing firm, said WOVA has grown to the point where it needs a full-time staff.
The HVCB chapters on Maui, Kauai and the Big Island have staffs of three to eight full-timers while WOVA has three part-timers assigned by his company, Kiely said.
DETROIT -- Chrysler Corp. reached a tentative agreement today with the United Auto Workers to settle a month-long strike at the automaker's Detroit engine plant. Chrysler, strikers
reach tentative dealThe walkout, which began April 9 at Chrysler's Mound Road engine plant, was the longest against the automaker in 30 years. No details were immediately available. Chrysler spokesman Tony Cervone said the agreement should go to the workers for ratification Friday.
The strike by 1,800 workers was largely over Chrysler's plans to farm out about 250 drive-shaft production jobs to an independent supplier. The strike forced Chrysler to shut other plants.
LONDON -- Unilever Plc, a conglomerate known for consumer products like Dove soap, Breyers ice cream and Lipton tea, is selling its international chemical businesses for $8 billion to Imperial Chemical Industries. Unilever gets $8 billion
for chemicals businessICI chairman Sir Ronald Hampel said today the purchase will make London-based ICI "a formidable new force in specialty chemicals." Unilever has been making money in the chemicals operations but said in February it wanted to focus on the sales of consumer goods, which account for 90 percent of its business.