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Dave Erdman
PacRim Marketing Group, Inc.
Phone: (808) 949-4592 ext. 833
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Web Site: http://www.pacrimmarketing.com

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PACRIM MARKETING ANNOUNCES STAFF PROMOTIONS AND NEW HIRES

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Honolulu - Honolulu-based PacRim Marketing Group, Inc. has announced the following staff addition and promotions in its Integrated Marketing Services Department.

Sayuri Fujiwara has re-joined PacRim Marketing as Public Relations Manager in the Integrated Marketing Services Department. Her responsibilities include working with the Japanese media as well as managing the department.

Fujiwara held the same position at PacRim Marketing from 1998 to 1999. She continued to work for PacRim Marketing as a freelance media coordinator while employed at Continental Airlines during the past four years, prior to her re-hire last month.

Before joining PacRim Marketing in 1998, Fujiwara was a Japanese Guest Service Manager at Sheraton Waikiki Hotel for three years and an employee at JTB for four years. Fujiwara holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Asian Studies from the University of Maryland. She speaks fluent Japanese and English.

Yukashi Smith has been promoted to Media Coordinator in PacRim Marketing Group's Integrated Marketing Services Department. In her new position, Smith will continue to work with clients in Japan and Hawaii and with the Japanese media.

Smith, who joined PacRim Marketing in April of 2002 as part of the eMarketing Department, directed the first twenty-six episodes of "Aloha Tengoku," a television program promoting Hawaii and its businesses that aired in Japan last year on Sky Perfect TV, one of the most prestigious cable stations in Japan.

Smith was previously a sales representative and producer at KBS Television and Radio in Kyoto, Japan, where she worked for ten years. Smith holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in music from Doshisha Women's College in Japan and a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She also is fluent in Japanese and English.

PacRim Marketing Group also announced the promotion of Lynelle Lingaton, to Marketing Coordinator from Marketing Assistant, in the Integrated Marketing Services Department.

Lingaton joined PacRim in April of 2002. In her new position, she will continue to work with clients and the Japanese media on integrated marketing services programs. As a client liaison, she will perform account services including presentations, budgeting, reporting, and maintaining the media database.

Prior to joining PacRim Marketing Group, Lingaton was a Marketing Assistant at Hawaiian Host. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in marketing from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She is fluent in English and understands some Japanese and Hawaiian.

PacRim Marketing Group, Inc. (www.pacrimmarketing.com), is an international marketing firm specializing in connecting clients with Pacific Rim markets through integrated, multicultural marketing solutions.

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