The United Fruit Company (later the United Brands Company) was an American multinational corporation that traded in tropical fruit (primarily bananas)...
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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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Honduras from 1911 until 1929, before being purchased by the United Fruit Company. The company was founded in the 1890s by William Streich to export bananas...
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Fruit Tree is an American film and television production company, founded by Emma Stone and Dave McCary in 2020. The company has produced the films When...
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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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Chiquita (redirect from United Brands Company)
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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the Spanish invasion. His policies ran afoul of the United Fruit Company, which lobbied the United States government to have him overthrown. The U.S. was...
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passion fruit (Portuguese: maracujá and Spanish: maracuyá, both from the Tupi mara kuya "fruit that serves itself" or "food in a cuia") is the fruit of a...
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Noam Chomsky (redirect from West Indian Workers and United Fruit Company)
New Left intellectuals Herbert Marcuse and Erich Fromm and preferred the company of activists to that of intellectuals. Chomsky remained largely ignored...
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Banana Wars (category Invasions by the United States)
trade and to project its naval power. US companies, such as the United Fruit Company and Standard Fruit Company (now Dole plc), also had financial stakes...
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Fruit of the Loom is an American company that manufactures clothing, particularly casual wear and underwear. The company's world headquarters is located...
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1954 Guatemalan coup d'état (category 1954 in the United States)
nationalists wanting social reform throughout Latin America. The United Fruit Company (UFC), whose highly profitable business had been affected by the...
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Banana republic (category United Fruit Company)
Honduras under economic exploitation by U.S. corporations, such as the United Fruit Company (now Chiquita). Typically, a banana republic has a society of extremely...
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mother's experience growing up in Cuba on territory occupied by the United Fruit Company. Set in Cuba during Fulgencio Batista's reign as dictator, the novel...
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The Fruit Company is an American company that was founded in 1942 by Roy Webster. The company, still privately owned and led by CEO Scott Webster, has...
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Guatemalan Revolution (section United Fruit Company)
granted significant concessions to the United Fruit Company, an American corporation that traded in tropical fruit, and dispossessed many indigenous people...
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Natural Fruit Company, Ltd. (NFC), also called "Natfruit", is a Thai privately owned fruit wholesaler, specializing in pineapple. It was established on...
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cargo on the return leg. The large fruit companies such as Standard Fruit Company, United Fruit Company in the United States and Elders & Fyffes Shipping...
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Reefer ship (section United Fruit Company reefer ships)
1912 and 1913 for the United Fruit Company as a combination cruise ship and refrigerated cargo ship. The United Fruit Company's fleet of about 85 ships...
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Sam Zemurray (category United Fruit Company)
Cuyamel Fruit Company and later became president of the United Fruit Company, the world's most influential fruit company at the time. Both companies played...
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José María Orellana (section The United Fruit Company)
the United Fruit Company- lead a coup d'état against president Carlos Herrera who had resisted to approve the concessions granted to the United Fruit Company...
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the business was worth $12 million. In 1906, United Fruit Company bought a half share in the company, but antitrust law forced them to sell it. Di Giorgio...
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Banana Massacre (category United Fruit Company)
Matanza/Masacre de las bananeras) was a massacre of workers of the United Fruit Company (now Chiquita) that occurred between December 5 and 6, 1928, in the...
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infrastructure, but only via granting concessions to the American-owned United Fruit Company, whose influence on the government was deeply unpopular among the...
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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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The United Fruit Company strike of 1913 started on June 2, 1913. It was a worker-led strike organized by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in New...
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Eli M. Black (redirect from American Seal-Kap company)
outbidding other companies, and gained a controlling interest. In 1970, AMK merged with United Fruit Company, and adopted the name United Brands. Black became...
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Guatemalans, mainly European-descended, and foreign companies such as the American United Fruit Company had dominated control over much of the land, and...
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Tela (section Tela Under the United fruit company)
the Tela Railroad Company, a subsidiary of the United Fruit Company whose Honduran headquarters were there until 1970. The company brought in many labourers...
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Decree 900 (section Expropriation of United Fruit)
expropriation of land led major landowners–including the United Fruit Company–to lobby the United States government to intervene by construing the Guatemalan...
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