NEWS RELEASE FOR RELEASE IMMEDIATELY CONTACT: August 27, 2004 David C. Cole 808/877-3893 808/871-0953 FAX MAUI LAND & PINEAPPLE COMPANY, INC. DIRECTOR RESIGNS Kahului, Hawaii, August 27. Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc. (AMEX: MLP) announced today that Randolph G. Moore has tendered his resignation as a director of ML&P, effective immediately, citing time conflicts with his work as a public school teacher. Mr. Moore has been a director of ML&P since 1994. "Randy is an outstanding business thinker and educator," said David C. Cole, Chairman, President & CEO. "We thank Randy for his service and, in particular, for his significant contributions to ML&P in his role as Chairman of the Board's Audit Committee." Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc., a Hawai`i corporation and the successor to a business organized in 1909, owns approximately 29,000 acres on Maui. Its primary operations presently include cultivating, processing and distributing Maui grown pineapple, operating Kapalua Resort, a destination resort in West Maui, and creating and managing holistic communities on Maui. # # # # #