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Mana Up announces its biggest annual event, the Mana Up Showcase 2024, featuring a lineup of events and entrepreneurs that highlight Hawai‘i’s creative spirit.
Annual event will feature nearly 80 local partners and 16 rising entrepreneurs, young musicians, and award-winning performing artist Justin Kawika Young.
Mana Up reported that the inaugural event brought 7,000-plus visitors to Saturday’s popup and enjoyed local Hawaii products.
Byron Goo is an experienced executive with a demonstrated history of working in the food and beverage industry. He sensed a rebirth of tea brewing in America and launched Tea Chest Hawaii in 1995. As a craft tea maker, Byron has created award-winning products and has helped local farmers cultivate tea and other crops that can be used in his blends.
Tea Chest Hawaii was one of the first USDA-certified organic food manufacturers in the state and continues to support sustainable, organically grown agriculture around the globe. Its tea team has a passion for refined taste and a distinct sense of place. Their mission is to craft products with great flavor, all while making people happy. Using only natural, organic and sustainable ingredients, Tea Chest Hawaii formulates products that are good for you and the planet. Today the O‘ahu-based company has several brands of tea including Hawaiian Natural Tea, Mamaki among a few others.
