Japanese electronics maker Hitachi Ltd. has agreed to pay $400,000 (euro310,000) a year to feature Moanalua Gardens’ giant monkeypod tree in its advertisements and corporate literature over the next decade. Hitachi, which makes televisions, appliances, cell phones and other electronics, has used the 50-foot-tree (15-meter-tree) known for its umbrella-shaped canopy as a corporate symbol since 1973. “Everyone in Japan knows this tree,”...
Headland Machinery knows a thing or two about world-class products. After serving Australian industry for over 55 years, importing premium quality capital equipment from global technology leaders such as Trumpf and Peddinghaus, Headland knew they had found a champion when they signed on as the exclusive Australian and New Zealand agent for the innovative Hänel Storage Systems. Hänel, founded over 50 years ago, is one the leading global producers...