With 23 stores on spread across four Hawaiian Islands, Honolulu-based Crazy Shirts has come a long way from its modest beginnings nearly 51 years ago as a small T-shirt airbrushing business on the sidewalks of Waikiki. But even with an additional 13 stores in four states on the Mainland, Crazy Shirts CEO Mark Hollander says there is still room to grow.
Though plans are still in the works to open a new store in California by the end of this year, those expansion plans kicked off on Monday with the opening of the company's fifth store on Kauai in The Shops at Kukuiula.
"As you look at growth geographically, with respect to brick-and-mortar stores, we've got a great footprint in Hawaii — it's really a great cross-section of all these wonderful areas for retail destinations, and it's something we're really, really proud of," Hollander said. "We look to continue to grow as opportunities present themselves. Kukuiula is a great case in point — it's a shopping center that has been around for a while, survived the downturn of the economy, and came on its own to be a spectacular shopping environment that is unique to Kauai."
He said the decision to open the 861-square-foot store within a two-mile radius of two other company locations, in Old Koloa Town and Poipu Shopping Village, is a part of "a strategy that has been successful us on every island and several Mainland areas." (Source: Pacific Business News)