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Bennet Group client, AES, a leader in pioneering renewable energy projects throughout Hawaiʻi, is working to complete their Nā Pua Makani wind farm project, near the town of Kahuku on Oʻahu’s North Shore. Wind power is largely applauded as a pollution-free source of energy that displaces fossil fuels contributing to global warming. Set to begin […]

Hawaiʻi Pacific University’s acclaimed Center for Marine Debris Research (CMDR) recently concluded a study that confirmed what island residents have long believed: that most of the pollution washing up on Hawaiʻi’s shores originates abroad. Published in the journal, Environmental Science and Technology, the CMDR study revealed that while much of the pollution found on the Leeward beaches […]

Already recognized as an efficiency leader in the hospitality sector, with several ‘green awards’ to their name, Grand Wailea, a Waldorf Astoria Resort, is now instituting a comprehensive push to increase conservation and sustainability efforts throughout the entire property. With water being an integral part of the resort’s make-up, programs to conserve and protect the […]

On April 10, 2019, groundbreaking scientific progress surrounding one of the universe’s greatest mysteries took place– and Bennet Group’s client, Maunakea Observatories, was right in the middle of it. Through a live press-conference in Washington, D.C., the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration announced and released the world’s first-ever image of a black hole.  Pioneers of […]

The Firm Promotes Both Megan Tsuchida and Dylan Beesley To Vice President Bennet Group Strategic Communications, one of Hawai‘i’s top public relations agencies, today announced the promotion of Megan Tsuchida and Dylan Beesley, who will both be serving as vice presidents of the firm. “As brilliant strategists and emerging leaders within our community, Megan and […]

Nearly 3,000 news stories across the globe; audience reach of 1.7 billion; 64,720 comments and shares across social platforms; 87,587 visitor sessions at Hokulea.com – all of that, in four days last June. If you didn’t hear in that Hōkūleʻa had arrived back home, you were living under a rock. National industry leaders in communications […]

If 2018 (and to be honest, 2016 and 2017) marked the rise of influencers and microinfluencers, then the 2019 is definitely the year of the nanoinfluencer. As social media has penetrated every facet of our lives, social media marketing spawned influencer marketing –– a high impact and cost efficient way to create buzz around events, products […]

On January 1, 2019, a new year began with a pivotal and universally-recognized NASA space expedition –– and Bennet Group’s client Canada-France-Hawaiʻi Telescope (CFHT) was there for every minute of it. Shortly after midnight on New Year’s Eve NASA’s New Horizon’s spacecraft conducted a flyby of an object called Ultima Thule. Ultima Thule, the oldest observed […]

RECORD-SETTING 30 AWARDS RECEIVED Bennet Group gathered last weekend to celebrate a record-setting 30 awards from the Public Relations Society of America, Hawaii Chapter, given in honor of our work alongside you – our valued clients – in the 2017 year. Bennet Group was honored to win the most awards of any company represented. Our […]