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THIS
2004 CHINA CONCERT TOUR AND TELEVISION
SHOW
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will show the fabulous greatness of Ron's ability
to put things together, in just one Summer. He'll
again be teaching his 14-year-old Daughter,
Sterling, the P's and Q's of international trade,
and the marketing requirements needed, to run and
operate their family owned cosmetic business
enterprise. He'll be on stage performing with the
HT dancers, and singing a duet or two with Troy and
Sterling. "Country Roads", and "You Are My
Sunshine", are two of Ron's
favorites.
-----Ron Rice
(owner/founder of Hawaiian Tropic) is the perfect
example of the "American Dream". Born near
Asheville, NC, Rice grew up in a "two-story log
cabin" on his family owned mountain. An
entrepreneur from the age of five, he sold
everything from homemade Christmas wreaths to
honey, grapes, apples and apple cider at his
roadside stand.Contact: TeleKey International
Licensing
-----Rice remembers
coming home from football practice each day and
spending every spare minute with his family
carrying rocks and mortar to the peak of their
mountain to build their father's dream house.
Sadly, his parents only lived in the home for one
year before the State Transportation Dept. ordered
the house torn down to make room for Highway 26.
Uprooted, Clyde Rice died a year later at the age
of 73. "How hard he worked at his job on that house
- had a lasting impression on me," quotes
Rice.
-----After graduating
from college, Rice moved first to Myrtle Beach, SC
and then to Florida following the sun, working as a
teacher and a lifeguard. When Rice created Hawaiian
Tropic in a garbage can (right), in his garage, he
was earning $4300 per year as a chemistry
teacher/football coach at a local high school and a
summertime lifeguard. He mixed batches of coconut
oil, bananas, aloe avocados and other exotic
ingredients and hired a crew of three pre-teens to
fill bottles and keep track of the secret recipe.
By sampling on the beach and utilizing lifeguard
friends and fellow teachers to distribute the
product, demand for the product grew throughout the
United States.
-----To increase
notoriety and sales, Rice turned to something else
he knew well - sports! We sponsored everything you
could think of. We were in NASCAR racing for ten
years and Paul Newman drove the winning "Hawaiian
Tropic Porsche at the 24 Hours of LeMans, France.
We were involved in hang-gliding, surfing,
skydiving, water-skiing, snow skiing, tennis
tournaments and on and on," says Rice. The name
Hawaiian Tropic grew to worldwide
renown.
-----Next was the
development of the Miss Hawaiian Tropic
International Pageant. This annual search for the
most beautiful woman in the world is now the second
largest pageant in the world. Over 1,500 pageants
are run in the US alone and pageants are held in 45
other countries to select the finalists. Miss
Hawaiian Tropic International, along with other
selected finalists and contestants, travel the
globe participating in major media promotions. The
team makes appearances at such events as charity
functions, sportscar races, concerts, the Cannes
Film Festival, music videos, MTV and in major film
productions. They meet stars like Burt Reynolds on
location for filming, Clint Eastwood at celebrity
charity ski tournaments, and Julio Iglesias at
concerts an on music video productions. The models
also travel to exotic beach locations for the
annual Hawaiian Tropic photo shoot. These photos
are used for television, major fashion magazines
worldwide, billboards and
calendars.
-----Today, Hawaiian
Tropic is the second largest suncare manufacturer
in the world, with twelve manufacturing plants on
five continents, grossing over $200 million per
year. The garbage can ( right) used to mix that
first batch is silverplated and stands in Rice's
living room as a reminder of the "early" days and
Rice's tireless effort.
-----Rice is single with
daughter Sterling (left) . The Rice's enjoy the
"good life," with an 80-foot sailing yacht lovingly
named the Princess Sterling, and a $250,000
Lamborghini that was loaned to Ron's buddies, Burt
and Hal for the movie "Cannonball Run." Rice's main
residence in Daytona Beach is a $5.5 million
palatial estate with four pools, a recording studio
and a disco. In memory of his Dad, Ron had truck
loads of granite brought down from North Carolina
to provide the exterior for his home. Clyde Rice
would have liked that.
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/ CAST
AND HAWAIIAN TROPIC PERFORMERS
China
2004 Ron Rice
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2005-06. Copyright.
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