Dole Food Company
Dole Food Company is a U.S. based company with headquarters in Westlake Village, west of Los Angeles.
The company is the world's largest supplier of fresh fruits, fresh vegetables and fresh-cut flowers and also markets a growing line of finishing products. The product range consists of over 200 products.
History
The history of today's Dole Food Company is primarily due to three fruit companies that have emerged in the period of 1850-1920. The Hawaiian Pineapple Company was founded in 1901 in Hawaii sold in 1972 dessert bananas of the Dole brand. In 1991 the company was renamed Dole Food Company.
The two Hawaiian company Castle and Cooke and Hawaiian Pinapple Company and the US-amerikanisch/Honduranische Standard Fruit Company evolved from small trading company into a global giant company who possessed at times over the power to share governments in some small states at will, or at least strongly influence. From this period the term banana republic, whose emergence also Dole's biggest competitor Chiquita ( United Fruit Company) has contributed originates.
The oldest of the company 's Castle and Cooke. Samuel Northrup Castle and Amos Starr Cooke, a U.S. citizen from Boston, came in 1837 as missionaries of the " American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions " at the Sandwich Islands. 1839 called for the Hawaiian chiefs training the royal offspring in a run by Cooke and Castle school. King Kamehameha III. called Castle three years later became the unofficial royal adviser, as the Boston Missionary Society disapproved of political offices of their missionaries. About ten years later, in 1849, Castle and Cooke were partners in order to make the former mission warehouse a warehouse. Castle and Cook's Warehouse grew into one of the five largest companies in Hawaii and was particularly active in the sugar business. It was not until 1894, after the death of Samuel Castle, Castle and Cooke was operating under the laws of the young nor independent Republic of Hawaii and its president Sanford Dole. From the 1930s, the company continued to expand, mainly through acquisitions of other companies.
The three Sicilian brothers Joseph, Luca and Felix Vaccaro and Salvador D' Antoni, who had just immigrated to the United States, founded in 1899 the forerunner of the later standard Fruits Company to import bananas from La Ceiba, Honduras to New Orleans. The Standard Fruit Company was founded by the Vaccaro Brothers in 1924 as the American trading company. Castle and Cooke took over in 1964 55 % of the Standard Fruit and entered as one in the banana trade. Four years later the company was fully acquired.
The Harvard graduate James Dole founded in 1901 the Hawaiian Pinapple Company. 1932 Castle and Cooke participated with 21% in the company. The well-known quality of the fruit, which has been associated with James Dole's name, the company moved in 1933 to " DOLE " on cans of pineapple and pineapple juice packaging printing. The Dole brand was born. In 1961, Castle and Cooke took over the Hawaiian Pineapple Company completely.
In the 1980s, the head of the container rental company Flexi - Van David Howard Murdock took over the lead at Castle and Cooke. The companies merged in 1985 and in 1991 renamed Dole Food Company, because Dole is the most important brand in the world company. Their logo featured long gone only pineapple cans, but a wide variety of tropical fruits, especially bananas. Mid-1990 was divided Dole Food the property management in private companies, which led the old name of Castle and Cooke again. These real estate division was held by David Howard Murdock alone. After an exchange crisis at the beginning of the 21st century, he bought back the shares 76% in free trade with the support of an international banking consortium. Since 2003, the Dole Food Company, one of the three largest Südfruchthandelsgesellschaften the world, again a family business and is no longer listed on the New York Stock Exchange. David Howard Murdock restructured its businesses into the following years to Murdock Holding Company.
In 2007, banana plantations of Dole Food Company were first in Colombia to international standards certified for workplace conditions and human rights.
Criticism
In 1982, the then firmierende as Standard Fruit Company Group in violation of a valid contract until 1985 with the Nicaraguan government a banana all transactions with Nicaragua. He participated in the actions of the U.S. against the Sandinista- ruled Nicaragua as part of the Contra war, which the U.S. were convicted in 1986 by the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
Dole Food Company, is because of their perceived as anti-union policy and the attempts to make critical voices silenced, criticized.
Greater attention it attracted in 2009, when she tried to " * Bananas! " To prevent the performance of the documentary. In the film, Dole is alleged to have toxic and back in the U.S. have banned pesticide DBCP used illegally on their plantations. In July 2009, Greenpeace explained who buy products from the company, ledge aid for censorship of critical media.
The authors of the Black Markenfirmen throw the Group " exploitation of plantation workers, use of hazardous plant toxins and child labor " before.
Dole Europe
Dole Europe was established in 1990 to coordinate the import of fresh fruits and vegetables to Europe via the various import - offices and commercial representations of the various European countries. 2011, previously located in Paris 's European headquarters to Hamburg ( Dole Fresh Fruit Europe OHG ) was relocated. Dole has been active since 1975 in Europe for important port city of Hamburg.