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Author: Martin MacArthur
Website: www.martinandmacarthur.com/
Author Comment / Biography: Local-born Michael Tam, returned to Hawaii with an accomplished track record leading global companies with a strategic marketing focus. In 2008, Tam became the majority owner, CEO, and President of Martin & MacArthur, the premiere Koa furniture maker and retailer in Hawaii for fifty years. Also make personal accessories such as Kao wood watches ,jewelry,rings. Tam is responsible for leading Martin & MacArthur to achieve sustainable, profitable, and long term growth. He has created meaningful connections within the community in support of the Hawaiian heritage and local artisans in Hawaii. In the past three, Martin & MacArthur has opened nine new stores, including its first stores on the Big Island and Kauai. A distinctive retail store base is being created, focused on the finest home furnishings and personal accessories made in Hawaii for the gracious Hawaiian living. The Hawaiian furniture store have koa furniture & rocking chair. They Also make personal accessories such jewelry, jewelry boxes, wood watches . By the time Tam returned to Hawaii, he had accumulated extensive executive experience with global companies that included Nordstrom, Starbucks, Borders, McDonalds, and American Eagle Outfitters. His career is marked with success in creating corporate business strategies; developing new brands; reposition existing brands; introducing brands into global and domestic markets After graduating with a Master of Management degree in marketing and finance at the Kellogg School of Business, Northwestern University, he joined Leo Burnett as senior media planner for Procter & Gamble and was International Vice President responsible for McDonald’s Corporation.
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1. Koa Sets The Trend In Hawaiian Jewelry
November 17, 2013
Forget the Puka shells or the old fashioned wave pendants that your grandmother bought in Hawaii. Today, the hottest trend inHawaiian jewelry in wood – KOA wood, to be exact. Koa grows only in Hawaii and has beautiful swirling grain patterns unseen in any other wood.
Koa from the Big Island ...
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2. Koa Makes the Perfect Gift
November 17, 2013
Hand-crafted gifts made with wood are always appreciated more than stuff made in offshore factories using cheap plastic and steel. But, that does not mean you have to sacrifice great style and innovation.
Koa, the wood once reserved for the Hawaiian monarchs, is now use to create such ima...
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3. Wood Watches And Wood Personal Accessories Show Your Commitment To Environment
October 01, 2013
Innovative companies are now using wood to create eco-friendly personal accessories like iPhone cases, sunglasses and watches, Koa jewelry and boxes. These items are pe...
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4. Automatic, Self-Winding Koa Watch Sets The New Standard
October 01, 2013
Automatic Koa Watches Sets
The biggest development in precision timepieces comes from the middle of the Pacific Ocean in Honolulu Hawaii. Loc...
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5. Wood Watches Keep Innovating - Don't Get Left Behind
October 01, 2013
Wood watches are all the rage. For the past three years, companies like Martin & MacArthur and Tense have led the way in creating great new styles of wood watches. These two companies are the leaders in innovative new designs in wood watches.
Forget those dorky watches from other companies t...
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6. New Koa Furniture Collection Introduced
October 01, 2013
Koa Moana Buffet
The new collection includes a bed frame with a gently contoured headboard, showing off beautiful, highly figured curly Koa. The gentle slope of the headboard is carried through in all the furniture pieces which include nightstands; a dresser; a dining table; d...
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7. Guide To Buying A Wood Watch
October 01, 2013
The biggest trend in wrist watches is the wood watch. There are several companies that now offer wood watches online and in retail stores. Many of them look cool, but buyer beware! There are lots of imitators that do not sell a reliable time piece worth the investment. Here’s what you need to keep i...
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8. Too Cool For School - Hot Koa Fashions For Back-To-School
July 19, 2013
What are the hot trends on campus this Fall? The next generation is thinking “green” and more interested in items made from sustainable, renewable resources. They believe plastics and metal are for “old people” in their ‘30’s.
This back-to-school season, look for the following trends: ...
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9. Koa Watches Creating A Buzz Among Millennials
June 26, 2013
Just when you thought the wrist watch was dead, the latest must-have item for Generation Y is an eco-friendly Koa watch, made with wood grown only in Hawaii.
At last count, there were only 27 people in the world who do not carry a mobile phone. I heard that Apple gives an iPhone to new...
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10. Koa Boxes For The Man Of The House
June 12, 2013
Most often, when you think about a Koa, you think of beautiful Koa jewelry boxes made with the wood that grows only in Hawaii. True, Koa makes the fines...
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