CITY MILL News Room Retail Merchants award winners chosen > A few remnants of Hawaii endure 100 years later > City Mill will open store at new Ewa Beach Center > Pace Setters: Ron... De Leon > More news Retail Merchants award winners chosen City Mill: 2004 Award Winner - Large Business Category Pacific Business News October 2004 The Retail Merchants of Hawaii... the 2004 Governor's Hookela Award for Exemplary Service to the retail industry. The following also were honored at the conference: Retailer of the Year: Steven Ai and Carol Ai May...

CITY MILL News Room Retailers honor City Mill siblings > A few remnants of Hawaii endure 100 years later > City Mill will open store at new Ewa Beach Center > Pace Setters: Ron De... Leon > More news Retailers honor City Mill siblings By Advertiser Staff Honolulu Advertiser October 2004 The brother and sister running City Mill Home Improvement Centers... as a team were named retailers of the year yesterday by Retail Merchants of Hawaii. As third-generation siblings of the Ai family operating the family business established in 1899, Steven...

Mill Star Bulletin October 2009 Hawaii's retail market is a unique mix of mainland and local chains, mom-and-pop shops and even an historic Japanese department store. Island shoppers... casually perusing plastic storage containers last week. Read more > City Mill branches out into new retail venture* Star Bulletin April 2008 The owners of City Mill Co. Ltd.... are launching a new retail venture that will be the anchor tenant of a shopping center being built in Kapolei. Read more > Repair Those Holes Just Like an Expert* Honolulu Advertiser March...

to everybody," said CEO Steven Ai. The company decided to identify a niche for itself, knowing it couldn't compete head to head with the big-box retailers such as Home Depot... business. "They have carved out a specialty that cements their brand as a neighborhood retailer," said Randy Yeager, president and CEO of Retail Strategies LLC. "They found a need...

Stores - Caring for the Community When Safeway set up shop on the Big Island in the 1970s, it was the first major retailer to introduce Mainland beef as a mainstream option... to locally raised meat. The quality of Safeway's beef was said to be more consistent than local meats, and it was undoubtedly cheaper. Consequently, longtime local retailer, KTA Super...