Hawaii does business on relationships, and relationships here are checked in one place. A lender in Honolulu weighs your application, a hotel group vets your company as a supplier, a defence contractor's partner looks you up from the mainland, and each of them reads Pacific Business News to see who is established in these islands. If your company is not in it, you are a stranger asking to be trusted. This page explains how that changes: how your company gets published in Pacific Business News through a paid, labelled article, what the article actually is, what decides its price, and the one email that starts it.
The short answer: yes, your company can be published in Pacific Business News
Yes. Your company can be published in Pacific Business News through a paid, labelled article placement. This is not pitching a story to a journalist and hoping, and it is not a domain wide placement where nobody can tell you which publication your article lands in. It is a specific article about your company, in Hawaii's business journal, reviewed before it is published, and permanent once it is live.
We hold a placement arrangement covering this publication, so the route is open and defined. The product is also official on the publication's own side: its partner materials list named sponsored article products, including a Lead Sponsored Article and a Custom Native Hub, so the sponsored article is its own recognised product family, not something a reseller invented. You need a company with a story worth an article, and one email to us. The sections below give you the whole picture before you decide.
Ready to put your company in Pacific Business News?
Send us your company name, your website, and the story the article should tell. You get a fit confirmation and your individual quote back by email.
uzairasad@pressfeature.orgOne email starts it. No form, no obligation.
Picture it: your company name in the publication Hawaii's leaders check
Imagine the checking moment, a month from now. The lender opens Pacific Business News, as she does every week, and your company's name is there, in a published article, in the journal Hawaii's business community trusts for its own market. The hotel group supplier review finds the same page. The mainland partner deciding whether your firm is the real thing in Hawaii finds it too. Your next proposal goes out with that link inside it, and your website carries the publication's name in its "As Featured On" row.
That is what a placement like this is bought for. Consumer coverage says people have heard of you. An article here says the owners, executives and decision makers across the islands have you on their own pages. In a market where everyone senior knows everyone, being visibly established in the state's business journal is the closest thing to an introduction from the whole community at once, and the page stays live every time the checking moment comes around again.
Why Pacific Business News, specifically
Honolulu is Hawaii's capital and business centre, and its economy runs on a distinctive mix: tourism, federal defence and research, health care and construction. The city hosts the US Pacific Command, described as the world's largest military command, with Pearl Harbor the central location for the US Pacific Fleet. The islands' economy is also broader than the visitor industry suggests: since the pandemic, Hawaii's non-tourism sectors have outgrown tourism itself. By the end of 2024, the information sector stood 40 percent above its pre-pandemic level, professional, scientific and technical services were up 27.4 percent, and health care and social assistance up 14.7 percent, while tourism related sectors stood at 94.3 percent. Completed construction reached 14 billion dollars in 2024, up 17.8 percent. The Queen's Medical Center is the largest private hospital in Hawaii, and the University of Hawaii at Manoa is the city's leading research institution.
The publication's own institution shows who this audience follows: Pacific Business News's 40 Under 40 marked its 27th year in 2026, honoured at a gala in Waikiki, with half of the 2026 class holding University of Hawaii ties. The supporting figures sit underneath, stated honestly: our outlet directory records the business journals' platform at a Domain Authority of 91 with 7.8 million monthly organic visits across the journals' site. Those are platform figures, not a claim about the Pacific edition alone. The benefit was never raw reach. It is reach into the exact room where your next client, lender or partner is sitting, across the whole state.
What a sponsored article in Pacific Business News actually looks like
Precision matters here, because vague offers are where buyers of placements get hurt.
The article is a full article page inside Pacific Business News on the publication's site. The publication is named and fixed before you pay anything: your article runs here, not in an unspecified journal somewhere in a network. It is labelled as paid content, under the publication's rules. The publication reviews the article before publishing it, so nothing goes live unreviewed. Once published, the placement is permanent; it does not come down at the end of a campaign window, because there is no campaign window attached to it.
The product family is the publication's own. Its partner materials name its native products directly, a Lead Sponsored Article and a Custom Native Hub among them, which is the official shelf a sponsored article comes from. What this page arranges is the standard placement within that family: one article, about your company alone. The article links to your company, and those links follow the publication's paid content rules and carry sponsored attributes. A plain editorial dofollow link is not part of a paid placement, and a seller who promises you one should be asked hard questions. This is a web article in the publication, not a print piece and not a list entry; the lists are the audience context, not the product.
One state, one publication: why Pacific Business News is the whole point
The publication's site hosts dozens of separate city business publications, each with its own readership of local decision makers. A placement is bought in one named publication, and the publication is the product. Pacific Business News is based in Honolulu, but its readership spans the state, which matters here more than anywhere: a company on Maui, the Big Island or Kauai sells to the same statewide business community that reads this journal. Your lenders, hotel partners and agency clients read Pacific Business News. An article in another city's publication, however fine that publication, does nothing for the checking moment in Hawaii.
This is exactly where domain wide offers fail their buyers. A seller who quotes you one flat arrangement for "the business journals" without naming your publication is selling you a slot in a system, not a presence in your market. Here, the market is chosen by you, confirmed before payment, and printed in the article's home: Pacific Business News. Readers weighing several markets can find the wider picture in The Business Journals guide, which covers how the city journals work as a family of choices. The buying decision, though, is always one market at a time, and for a Hawaii company it is this one.
Who this is built for, and who should skip it
This placement is built for Hawaii companies whose next big yes comes from another business: tourism and hospitality suppliers, defence and federal contractors, health care services, construction firms, and professional practices of every kind, including neighbour island businesses that sell statewide and need the state's journal, not only a local one, in their proof set. It also fits mainland companies entering the Hawaii market who need to stop looking like outsiders.
It does not fit a mainland firm with no Hawaii market at all; if nobody in the islands will ever buy from you, this journal's name does no work. And it does not fit anyone expecting an article to deliver instant sales by itself; a placement like this compounds credibility over every deal that follows it, and it should be bought with that horizon. If you are comparing outlet types before deciding, our guide to which news outlets accept sponsored content walks through the fit honestly.
How publishing works, step by step
Step 1: Email us. Write to uzairasad@pressfeature.org with your company name, your website, and what the article should say. That email is the entire application.
Step 2: Fit confirmation and your quote. We confirm your company and topic fit the publication, and you receive your individual quote for Pacific Business News. The factors behind it are in the next section.
Step 3: The article. You supply the article, or we arrange the writing for you. Either way it is prepared for the publication's review.
Step 4: Publication review. The publication reviews the article before publishing. Nothing about your company goes live in its pages unreviewed.
Step 5: Your live link. The article publishes in Pacific Business News, and the live link is yours: for proposals, for your site's press row, and for every checking moment from then on.
Your protection, in full, before you pay anything: payment is in full in advance, and if the article does not go live, you receive a full refund, in writing.
What decides the price of a Pacific Business News article
There is no printed price for this placement, and the reason is structural, not tactical. The price is decided by the market edition chosen, by the article's scope and whether you supply it or we arrange the writing, and by the placement specifics of your article. Questions about what it costs to advertise in Pacific Business News point at display advertising, a different product bought a different way. Third party estimator figures for this publication circulate online; they are other people's guesses about other products, and no honest quote is built on them.
So every placement is quoted individually, by email, before any payment, with no obligation attached to asking. Our guide to how much a sponsored article costs explains the factor model behind business journal quotes in full. What matters at this step is simple: the figure you receive is the figure for your company, your article, and Pacific Business News, and the refund protection above stands behind it.
The honest limits, and how to start
The limits, in a few lines. The article is labelled paid content; it is not editorial coverage and it is not the publication's newsroom endorsing your company. It guarantees no search ranking, no traffic figure and no clients. What it guarantees is the thing itself: a permanent, credible article about your company in the publication Hawaii's decision makers read, published under the publication's own review.
If that is the asset your company is missing, the next step is one email. Write to uzairasad@pressfeature.org with your company name, your website, and the story the article should tell. You will receive a fit confirmation and your individual quote. Our services page covers the wider picture of what we arrange; this placement begins with that email.
Start your Pacific Business News article
One email with your company name, your website, and the story to tell. Your fit confirmation and individual quote come back by email.
uzairasad@pressfeature.orgFull refund in writing if your article does not go live.
Frequently asked questions
How much does it cost to advertise in Pacific Business News?
Display advertising is a separate product, bought a separate way. This page covers the sponsored article, whose quote is individual and comes by email.
How do I get featured in Pacific Business News?
You can earn coverage by pitching news, or buy a labelled placement arranged through us, with the publication reviewing the article before it is published.
Who reads Pacific Business News?
Business owners, executives and decision makers across Hawaii, in tourism and hospitality, defence, health care, construction and professional services.
Can a business on Maui, the Big Island or Kauai be featured, or is Pacific Business News Honolulu-only?
Businesses statewide can be featured. The publication is based in Honolulu and read across the islands.
Is Pacific Business News the same as Hawaii Business magazine?
No. Hawaii Business is a separate, locally owned magazine with its own programmes. This page is about Pacific Business News at bizjournals.com/pacific.
Can I pay to publish an article in Pacific Business News?
Yes. Sponsored articles are among the publication's own named partner products, and a labelled placement is arranged through us.
How do I get my company in the Pacific Business News Book of Lists?
Listings come from the publication's own research and are never sold. The article is presence in front of the readership that uses its lists.
Is a sponsored article in Pacific Business News labeled, and what link do I get?
Yes, it is labelled as paid content, and it links to your company with sponsored attributes under the publication's paid content rules.
Disclosure: PressFeature sells article placements in Pacific Business News, and this page is our own marketing content, published to explain the placement honestly. Platform figures cited are from our public outlet directory. Published November 2026. Last reviewed: November 2026.