Walter Camara has joined Kauai Coffee Company as finance manager, and Darla Domingo is the new retail operations supervisor for the Kauai Coffee Visitors Center. Hiring of the new employees was announced by Frank Kiger, Kauai Coffee Company president. Camara
Walter Camara has joined Kauai Coffee Company as finance manager, and Darla Domingo is the new retail operations supervisor for the Kauai Coffee Visitors Center.
Hiring of the new employees was announced by Frank Kiger, Kauai Coffee Company president.
Camara is responsible for all aspects of accounting and financial-reporting functions, as well as the development and implementation of organizational plans and budgets. He reports to Kiger.
Domingo’s responsibilities are to oversee and coordinate marketing plans, sales activities and product merchandising at the Kauai Coffee Visitors Center in Numila, and at the Kauai Coffee Café located at Port Allen Marina Center.
She reports to Donn Soares, Kauai Coffee Company general manager.
“We are pleased to have Walter and Darla join the Kauai Coffee team,” said Kiger. “Their knowledge and experience will be assets to our operations as we look forward to a successful 2004.”
Prior to joining Kauai Coffee, Camara was an accountant with the firm Jack Brownrigg & Associates. Previously, he was controller at Kilauea Agronomics, Inc, a C. Brewer company, where he worked for 22 years, having joined that company as an accountant.
Born and raised on Kaua‘i, Camara is a graduate of Waimea High School. He received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Pacific University, and a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Hawai‘i.
Camara is a member of the Kaua‘i Chamber of Commerce, and is a volunteer with the Adopt A Highway roadside cleanup program. Camara lives in Kalaheo with his wife, Phyllis. He enjoys traveling, fishing, hiking, and playing golf and softball in his spare time.
Prior to joining Kauai Coffee, Domingo held management positions with Maui Divers Jewelry, Avis Rent-A-Car, and Sgt. Leisure, a retail apparel company, all on Kaua‘i. She has been in retail management for six years.
A native of Paint Rock, Texas, Domingo has lived on Kaua‘i for 14 years.
Domingo enjoys reading, running and hiking, and spends most of her free time with daughters, Kelsey, 14, and Kayla, 11. They live in Puhi.
Kauai Coffee Company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALEX). The Kauai Coffee Company produces 60 percent of Hawai‘i’s coffee, grown on a 3,400-acre estate stretching from Koloa to ‘Ele‘ele.
In April 2003, the first Kauai Coffee Café opened, at the Port Allen Marina Center, serving its own label of coffee, plus other cold and hot beverages, panini-grilled sandwiches, soups, salads, pastries and gelato ice cream.
Since the doors were first opened in 1998, employees at the Kauai Coffee Visitors Center have welcomed 350 to 400 people a day. In the near future, educational ground tours of the coffee estate will be offered to the public.
Those taking the tours will learn how and where Kauai Coffee grows, and will also visit the center’s museum. A variety of Kauai Coffee products and other items are for sale at the center.
More information may be obtained at Kauai Coffee’s Web site, www.kauaicoffee.com.
Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. (A&B), with headquarters in Honolulu, is a diversified corporation engaged in real property development and management (A&B Properties, Inc.); in transportation (Matson Navigation Company, Inc. and Matson Integrated Logistics, Inc.); and in food products (Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company and Kauai Coffee Company, Inc.).
Additional information about A&B may be found at its Web site, www.alexanderbaldwin.com.
