On-Line Store Sells 'Polynesia' To The World
(Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
A Hawaii-based couple has turned their love of things Polynesian into a fast-growing Internet business that sells Tahitian pearls, pareos and other items to the world, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin reports.
Scott and Angela Nagata opened their online store, www.blackpearldesigns.com four years ago. The Web site is presented in English, Japanese, French and German. Last year, it posted sales of $70,000, and this year expect to double that figure. The business is run out of their home in Windward Oahu.
The Nagatas met while studying at Brigham Young University-Hawaii, where Scott also danced at the affiliated Polynesian Cultural Center. He runs the business full-time, while caring for their three-year-old son. Angela Nagata helps with the business while working as a teacher at the Hawaii Center for the Deaf and Blind.
While most of the products such as Tahitian banjos, Maori poi balls, Samoan kava bowls and Fijian handicrafts, are imported from the various islands, the couple also design pareos and other traditional materials, the newspaper reports.
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