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    The Standard Fruit Company (now Dole plc) was established in the United States in 1924 by the Vaccaro brothers. Its forerunner was started in 1899, when...
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    and the West Indies. Although it competed with the Standard Fruit Company (later Dole Food Company) for dominance in the international banana trade, it...
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    Cuyamel Fruit Company, formerly the Hubbard-Zemurray Steam Ship Company, was an American agricultural corporation operating in Honduras from 1911 until...
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  • Standard in sixteen U.S. states Standard Bank, one of South Africa's largest financial operators Standard Fruit Company, an American company Standard...
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    Dole plc (redirect from Dole Fruit Company)
    Food Company and Standard Fruit Company) is an Irish-American agricultural multinational corporation headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. The company is among...
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    to project its naval power. US companies, such as the United Fruit Company (now Chiquita) and Standard Fruit Company (now Dole plc), also had financial...
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    The Boston Fruit Company (1885-1899) was a fruit production and import business based in the port of Boston, Massachusetts. Andrew W. Preston and nine...
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  • Standard Fruit Company and formed the Mexican American Fruit & Steamship Company in 1923. The company name was changed to American Fruit & SS Company...
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    Honduras which is still a port for the fruit trade. The ship became part of the Standard Fruit Company, a company established by Vaccaro Brothers, and operated...
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  • Vaccaro brothers (category Food company stubs)
    fruit trade, especially in the nation of Honduras. It was renamed to Standard Fruit Company in 1924 and again to Standard Fruit and Steamship Company...
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    Banana republic (category United Fruit Company)
    American multinational corporations (the UFC, the Standard Fruit Company, and the Cuyamel Fruit Company) dominated the cultivation, harvesting, and exportation...
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  • brewing, textile making and at the Coca Cola Company, the Standard Fruit Company and the United Fruit Company all went on strike within a 10-day period during...
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    train tracks were laid. The rail line was built by the Standard Fruit Company (now Standard Fruit de Honduras, a Dole subsidiary) for transport of its commodity...
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    general cargo on the return leg. The large fruit companies such as Standard Fruit Company, United Fruit Company in the United States and Elders & Fyffes...
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    Juicy Fruit is an American brand of chewing gum made by the Wrigley Company, a U.S. company that since 2008 has been a subsidiary of the privately held...
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    centuries by two competing U.S. corporations, United Fruit (Tela Railroad Company) and Standard Fruit (later nationalized). All were in the Caribbean coastal...
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    formerly known as United Fruit Co., is a Swiss-domiciled American producer and distributor of bananas and other produce. The company operates under subsidiary...
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    was carried out in a small field located that was property of the Standard Fruit Company (DOLE). Another source of players were students from the local public...
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    in army rations during World War II. In 1964, Standard Brands purchased Curtiss Candy Company. Standard Brands merged with Nabisco in 1981. In 1990, RJR...
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  • in Chinandega. He was trained as a civil engineer and worked in Standard Fruit Company before founding his own business. Between January and August 1966...
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    Banana-exporting companies, dominated until 1930 by the Cuyamel Fruit Company, as well as the United Fruit Company, and Standard Fruit Company, built an enclave...
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    Fruit Company, the La Ceiba region by Standard Fruit, and Tela and Trujillo were controlled by United Fruit's subsidiaries, the Tela Railroad Company...
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  • a "fruit brandy" is distilled "solely from the fermented juice or mash of whole, sound, ripe fruit, or from standard grape, citrus, or other fruit wine...
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    in U.S. based banana and mining companies such as Standard Fruit Company and Rosario Mining Company. These companies in words of some analysts transformed...
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    was dominated by American companies such as the United Fruit Company, the Standard Fruit Company, and the Cuyamel Fruit Company, which established enormous...
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  • hastened his own demise in several ways. His nationalization of the Standard Fruit Company banana concession sharply reduced the firm's revenues. He alienated...
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  • Castle & Cooke (category Real estate services companies of the United States)
    Dole in 1961. Between 1964 and 1968, Castle & Cooke acquired the Standard Fruit Company, adding bananas and other tropical fruits to its existing pineapple...
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    merchants in dried fruit. In 1930 they established a Jam Factory. With the outbreak of the Second World War the Standard Fruit Company received an order...
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  • Ceiba, Honduras, who looks for work in a pineapple factory at the Standard Fruit Company while he pursues his aspirations to be a writer. The novel takes...
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    fruit-flavored soju brand was released by beverage manufacturer Lotte Chilsung.[citation needed] Before the first fruit soju was released, standard soju...
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