BUSINESS BRIEFS
Safeway fined $675K by EPA
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Safeway Inc. has been fined $675,000 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which alleges that the supermarket chain sold a pesticide in Hawa'i and California that was not registered with the federal government.
The EPA accused Pleasanton, Calif.-based Safeway of selling unregistered household cleaning products at stores in the two states. The agency claims the stores sold a toilet bowl cleaner and a liquid cleanser with labels that claimed the products disinfect and remove mold and mildew.
Disinfectants and products that control mold are considered pesticides, which under federal law must be registered with the EPA. Safeway shares fell 6 cents to $34.15 in after-hours electronic trading after falling 42 cents to close at $34.21.
KVB SALES CHIEF TO HEAD GROUP
Edie Hafdahl, director of sales and marketing for the Kaua'i Visitors Bureau, has been elected president of Meeting Professionals International's Aloha Chapter.
Hafdahl has directed KVB's sales of group meetings business for the past 10 years.
MPI's Aloha Chapter has 86 members statewide.
PRIMATECH WINS $6.8M CONTRACT
Primatech Construction Inc. in Honolulu has received a $6.8 million contract to build an Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit 6 Replacement Facility at Pearl Harbor Naval Station.
Work is expected to be complete by Nov. 26, 2008. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command Pacific awarded the contract.
