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53-473: Dole plc (previously named Dole Food Company and Standard Fruit Company ) is an Irish - American agricultural multinational corporation headquartered in Dublin , Ireland. The company is among the world's largest producers of fruit and vegetables, operating with 38,500 full-time and seasonal employees who supply some 300 products in 75 countries. Dole reported 2021 revenues of $ 6.5 billion. As of 2021,

106-422: A SafetyChain system , which is a cellphone-based process for quality assurance on the farm (region, grower, and lot number), including immediate reports on non-compliance issues. Over decades, Dole has initiated several recalls of its products and shut down manufacturing facilities for cleaning in response to outbreaks of foodborne illnesses , primarily related to bagged salads and leafy greens. Officials with

159-399: A brand licensing arrangement with The Walt Disney Company for fruits and vegetables branded with Disney, Pixar , Marvel , and Star Wars fictional characters to encourage produce consumption among children, such as using stickers on bananas. The arrangement includes cobranded recipes featuring Disney films , including Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Frozen II . The Dole brand

212-404: A defamation lawsuit by Dole. Dole lost the suit and was ordered to pay the filmmakers SEK 1,400,000. Gertten made a follow-up documentary about the defamation suit that premiered in 2012, entitled Big Boys Gone Bananas!* . Total Produce was spun off from Fyffes in 2006 as a fresh fruit and vegetable business separate from the tropical fruits business of Fyffes. Upon establishment, the firm

265-599: A 13-vessel shipping line for importing its produce and exporting third-party goods to Latin America . The multinational company PepsiCo sells bottled fruit beverages under license using the Dole brand. Dole has a comarketing agreement with The Walt Disney Company to encourage the public, including children, to consume fruits and vegetables. Dole plc traces its origins to the foundation of Castle & Cooke in 1851, and Charles McCann's Fish, Fruit and Vegetable Market in

318-591: A criminal probe into the issue. Dole settled two civil lawsuits related to the outbreak in 2017. In December 2021, Dole recalled 180 varieties of packaged salad due to possible listeria contamination and closed packaging facilities in Yuma , Arizona , and Bessemer City , North Carolina, to sanitize them. The outbreak led to an investigation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after two people died and 17 became ill. Standard Fruit Company Along with

371-461: A fleet of between nine and nineteen ships. In 1926, the company renamed again to Standard Fruit & Steamship Company. The Vaccaro Bros. company was also continuing its philanthropy around this time when it provided a substantial amount of funding to Honduras' first hospital, Hospital Vicente D'Antoni in La Ceiba which was opened in 1924. Standard Fruit continued operations until 1964 when it

424-682: A fleet of ships. In the winter of 1899, severe blizzards destroyed many of the company's Honduran orange groves, and the company decided to invest in bananas instead. This venture proved greatly profitable for the Vaccaro Bros. With the rising profits they bought their first two ships, the Santo Oteri and the Premier , in 1900. As the company grew, the Vaccaro Bros. company began buying more land in Honduras. In 1907, Miguel R. Dávila

477-517: A large player in the Central American 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 in 1926. The Vaccaro Bros. company is considered to be the earliest incarnation of Dole Food Company , as Standard Fruit was acquired by Castle & Cooke in 1964, which split to become Dole Food Company in 1995. The Vaccaro Bros. fruit company

530-648: A private corporation negotiates a collective agreement. The workers committed themselves to go back to work on May 21. May 21: After the Standard Fruit workers go back to work, the United Fruit workers harden their position. The number of strikers increases to 100,000 United Fruit. Vaccaro brothers Joseph , Luca , and Felix Vaccaro , known as the Vaccaro brothers, were Italian-American businessmen originally from Sicily . The brothers were

583-890: A publicly traded company. Ten years after its merger with Standard Fruit, Castle & Cooke acquired Bud Antle Inc., a California -based vegetable company. However, Castle & Cooke began to struggle financially and was purchased in 1985 by billionaire David H. Murdock . After the purchase, Dole began expanding its offerings by purchasing other food companies, buying several West Coast fruit and nut producers and distributors between 1985 and 1990, including Bonner Packing Company in California and Wells and Wade Fruit Company in Washington . Meanwhile, in Ireland, Fruit Importers of Ireland purchased Fyffes from Chiquita in 1986. Murdock separated Dole and Castle & Cooke in 1996, turning

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636-554: A result, in 1911, Zemurray ordered mercenaries Lee Christmas and Guy Molony to oust Dávila. Dávila was successfully replaced in March 1911 by Francisco Bertrand , who resigned in February 1912 and was replaced with Manuel Bonilla , who favored Cuyamel over the Vaccaro Bros. The Vaccaro Bros. made up for the loss of profits from Honduras by expanding their business into providing ice for steamships with refrigerators. This allowed

689-650: Is a vertically integrated producer, owning plantations in Central America . Its container ships are specially equipped with refrigerated containers , and use their own cranes instead of relying on port infrastructure. As of 2021, Rory Byrne is CEO, Carl McCann is chairman, and Johan Lindén is chief operating officer. Following the 2021 merger with Total Produce, Dole plc has world headquarters in Dublin , Ireland and US headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina . The Guinness Book of World Records (2007) lists

742-559: Is also under license with Pepsico for bottled fruit beverages. As Dole products include fruits and vegetables grown in open fields, Dole uses rigorous food safety procedures under Good Agricultural Practices for its own farms and those of contract growers. In California , Dole is a certified member of the Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement (LGMA), a collaboration of food scientists and safety experts, government, farmers, shippers, and processors. Dole operates

795-581: The Minnesota Department of Health found Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Dole bagged lettuce in 2005. The outbreak infected 25 people in Minnesota , Wisconsin , and Oregon . The following year, an E. coli outbreak that infected more than 200 people and killed three was traced back to a spinach processor in California which packaged spinach under the Dole brand. Dole initiated a recall of

848-669: The Second Italian War of Independence , Stefano Vaccaro immigrated to the United States in 1860 and settled in New Orleans. He relocated in 1861 to Louisville , Kentucky , upon the outbreak of the American Civil War . He returned to New Orleans in 1863 and started a business importing coconuts from Honduras. Stefano retired in 1893 and his sons Joseph, Luca, and Felix took over. The brothers expanded

901-472: The United Fruit Company , Standard Fruit played a significant role in the governments of Honduras and other Central American countries, which became known as " banana republics " due to the high degree of control which the fruit companies held over the nations. In 1926, the company changed its name from Standard Fruit Company to Standard Fruit & Steamship Company . Between 1964 and 1968,

954-677: The United States Food and Drug Administration at a plant in Springfield , Ohio . In 2016, an outbreak of listeriosis tied to the Springfield plant led to the hospitalization of 33 people and four deaths. The plant closed for four months that year, and later reporting revealed Dole knew about the listeria contamination in July 2014, more than a year before the plant's closure. The United States Department of Justice initiated

1007-706: The 1850s in Ireland. Castle & Cooke, a sugar and logistics company, was founded in Hawaii by Amos Starr Cooke and Samuel Northrup Castle . In 1899, industrialist James Dole moved to Hawaii. James was the cousin of Sanford B. Dole , who had helped overthrow the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1893, and became the governor of Hawaii in 1898. Two years after James Dole's arrival, he formed the Hawaiian Pineapple Company (HPC). The HPC delivered its first shipment of canned pineapple in 1903. Early products of

1060-693: The Cavendish allowed Standard Fruit to become the largest banana producer in the world by the 1960s. Standard Fruit merged with Castle & Cooke in 1968. While these companies were forming in the United States, the McCanns expanded their operations in Ireland, opening a store in Dundalk in 1902. In the 1950s, the McCanns began consolidating with other companies in Ireland, creating United Fruit Importers and then Fruit Importers of Ireland, which became

1113-582: The Dole Food Company had no business involvement for these products. In August 2013, Murdock reacquired Dole as a private company at a valuation of $ 1.6 billion. He and Dole Food Company President Michael Carter were later sued by investors for undervaluing the company during the Itochu deal, and in 2015, a judge in Delaware ordered the pair to pay shareholders $ 148 million for intentionally lowering

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1166-561: The Dole brand name, with numbers to indicate the grade . These stamps ensured the Dole name would still be visible even if the label was changed by a distributor. The company made technological advances in the early decades of the 20th century in processing the fruit—most notably the Ginaca Machine , created in 1911—that made canning pineapple commercially viable. In 1922, Dole purchased the Hawaiian island Lanai and turned it into

1219-471: The Hawaiian Pineapple Company were not marketed under a particular brand name, often assuming the names of the distributors. In the early 20th century, pineapple was still relatively unknown, and James Dole and other growers mounted a marketing campaign in magazines in what the company now refers to as one of the first nationwide advertising campaigns in the United States. In 1927, the HPC began stamping its cans with

1272-652: The Honduran strike. By the second week of May 11,000 Standard Fruit Company employees join the strike. Simultaneously, laborers in others sector of the economy go on strike too, including miners, brewers, and textile workers. May 16: The strikers present their "pliego de peticiones" to manager Aycock in La Lima. They quote the Universal Declarations of the Rights of Man and demand an increase in wages. At

1325-483: The Standard Fruit company among others. A detailed timeline can be seen below: HONDURAS: May 5. The workers of the United Fruit Company go on strike demanding higher wages and are followed by the Standard Fruit workers. This strike paralyzes all banana operations and peaks with 25,000 striking workers (around 15% of all the country's labor force) May 7: United Fruit manager J. F. Aycock declares that

1378-556: The age of 80. Giuseppe "Joseph" Vaccaro (1855-1945) was born on November 2, 1855, in Contessa Entellina, Italy. He was the oldest of the children born to Stefano and Maria Vaccaro. He immigrated with the family to New Orleans in 1860, where he took the name Joseph. He married Antonina Mustacchia in September 1876, and the pair had nine children, though one died in infancy. Joseph died in New Orleans on April 30, 1945, at

1431-459: The age of 89. Luca Vaccaro (1858-1936) was born on June 5, 1858, in Contessa Entellina, Italy. He was the second oldest of the children born to Stefano and Maria Vaccaro. He immigrated with the family to New Orleans in 1860. He was married twice, first to Margharita Mustacchia, the sister of his brother Joseph's wife Antonina Mustacchia, whom he married in New Orleans in 1878. The couple had two children and divorced around 1890. His second marriage

1484-536: The business into oranges, buying numerous orange groves in Honduras. Their produce at this time was shipped on nine mainly Norwegian chartered ships. In 1899, Joseph's daughter Maria married a Sicilian immigrant named Salvador D'Antoni (1874-1957). The same year, the Vaccaro brothers brought D'Antoni into the company and bought a beachfront property in La Ceiba, Honduras , to build a harbor as they intended to buy

1537-447: The companies declined to pay the fine. In 2007, a California judge awarded $ 2.3 million to Nicaraguan banana workers who sued Dole for its DBCP use. However, the ruling was overturned in 2010, with another judge noting a lack of evidence connecting the workers to Dole plantations and fraud committed by the plaintiffs' lawyers. Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten made a documentary about the latter lawsuit, entitled Bananas!* , which led to

1590-781: The company had approximately 250 processing plants and distribution centers worldwide in addition to 109,000 acres (44,000 ha) of farmland and real estate. The company operates through four segments: Fresh Fruit (bananas and pineapples; about 35% of 2020 revenues); Diversified Fresh Produce in Europe , the Middle East , and Africa ; Diversified Fresh Produce in the Americas and other world regions (combined 37% of 2020 revenues); and Fresh Vegetables (29% of 2020 revenues). Dole grows and markets bananas, pineapples, grapes, berries, deciduous and citrus fruits, and vegetable salads. Dole operates

1643-489: The company in 1985 and in 1991 renamed Castle & Cooke to the Dole Food Company. Murdock split the two companies into two separate companies, Dole plc and Castle & Cooke, Inc., in 1995. The majority of the land and operations that became Dole Food Company was directly from Standard Fruit, leading to the Vaccaro brothers' enterprise being considered the first incarnation of the Dole Food Company. This food and/or confectionery corporation or company-related article

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1696-431: The company to expand into greater territory and became the main source of income for the company. The company used some of their newfound profits to provide funding for Honduras' first bank, Banco Atlántida in La Ceiba, which was opened in 1913. By 1915, the company had become so large that Joseph Vaccaro owned a majority of the ice refrigerators in New Orleans for use in their shipping operations, leading to him being given

1749-464: The company was acquired by the Castle & Cooke Corporation, which also acquired James Dole 's Hawaiian Pineapple Company (HAPCO) around the same time. In 1991, Castle & Cooke was renamed Dole Food Company . Castle & Cooke Inc, a real estate company, was spun off in 1995 and, following a 2000 management buyout, is now privately held. In 1954, there was a general strike in Honduras against

1802-462: The company would not negotiate as long as the workers are on strike. That day, the strike expands to La Ceiba, Standard Fruit center of operations. Contrary to United Fruit, Standard offers to negotiate with striking workers. May 9. The American ambassador in Honduras says that the country's strike had been inspired by Guatemalan communists. In addition, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles suggests that Guatemala Arbenz's government might be behind

1855-545: The destruction of property records in the early 20th century, leading the firm to take control of large swaths of land with the support of the Honduran government. In 1924, the firm went public as the Standard Fruit and Steamship Company. In the 1920s, as Panama disease was destroying crops of the Gros Michel banana , Standard Fruit began looking for other cultivars to grow, settling on the Cavendish banana . Switching to

1908-512: The largest pineapple plantation in the world. The same year, Castle & Cooke acquired 33% of the company via lease agreement. In 1927, the HPC began stamping its cans with the "Dole" brand. By the end of the 1920s, the company grew more than 75% of all pineapples in the world. However, the Hawaiian Pineapple Company struggled to stay financially sound during the Great Depression and Castle & Cooke took control of it in 1932. The HPC

1961-476: The late 1850s, Stefano was a revolutionary involved with Giuseppe Garibaldi , and served in the Second Italian War of Independence . In either 1858 or 1859 he was captured and served as a prisoner of war in Austria . Upon his release in 1860, he immigrated to the United States, settling in New Orleans. His wife Maria died in 1890 and in 1893, he retired to Contessa Entellina, where he died on September 28, 1911, at

2014-535: The latter into a real estate development company. In the early 2000s, Dole struggled financially and was nearly bankrupt. Murdock rescued the company, which had been publicly traded, and took it private in 2003. During this same period, lawsuits related to the use of the pesticide DBCP were filed against Dole. The company, along with Shell and Dow Chemical Company , was ordered by a court in Managua , Nicaragua , to pay banana workers $ 489.4 million in 2003, but

2067-553: The major players in that trade, the Standard Fruit and Steamship Company, was established in 1906 by the Vaccaro brothers and Salvador D'Antoni as Vaccaro Brothers and Company. However, the quartet had been making shipments of tropical fruit such as bananas and coconuts , as well as other items, since 1899. The firm grew rapidly in its early years, establishing a headquarters in La Ceiba , Honduras , purchasing housing and cargo ships, and building rail and telephone lines at its plantations. The company's rapid growth has been attributed to

2120-515: The nickname "the Ice King". By 1924, The Vaccaro Bros. and Co. was both the largest importer from Honduras and the largest foreign investor in Honduras. It was also the second largest fruit company in the world behind Cuyamel Fruit, which had become United Fruit Company . The company renamed to Standard Fruit Company that year and became public company in 1925, now under the general management of Vicente D'Antoni. In 1925, Standard Fruit operated

2173-513: The pineapple maze at the Dole Plantation on Oahu, Hawaii as the world's largest maze . Bobby Banana , a mascot of Dole plc, is an anthropomorphic banana who appears in Dole comics and games for children. Including pineapples , Dole products include some 300 fresh plant foods as whole deciduous and citrus fruits , berries , and fresh-cut vegetables; salad products include greens, salad kits, and shreds. As of 2022, Dole has

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2226-512: The same time, the workers of Coca-Cola in La Ceiba and Puerto Cortes strike. Shortly after the protests began, the Honduran President Manuel Galvez expels two Guatemalan consuls charging them of instigation. May 18: Standard Fruit opens negotiations with the workers under governmental arbitration. The company agrees to increase wages and improve working conditions, making this the first time in Honduran history that

2279-476: The sons of Stefano Vaccaro, a fruit importer based in New Orleans , Louisiana . Stefano began importing fruit in the 1860s and retired in 1893. His sons took his business over after his retirement. The business was incorporated as Vaccaro Bros. and Co. in 1906. The Vaccaro Bros. company dealt with fruit importing and later providing ice for refrigeration steamships . The Vaccaro Bros. fruit company became

2332-775: The tainted spinach. According to Dole personnel and the California LGMA, this 2006 E. coli outbreak led to harmonizing new rigorous farm and handling practices across the fresh produce industry to minimize microbial contamination. Dole recalled its "Seven Lettuces" salads in 2012 after random testing by New York health officials found salmonella in the salads. The same year, the company issued two recalls of its bagged salads due to contamination by Listeria monocytogenes . The company initiated another recall due to contamination by L. monocytogenes in 2014. The following year, Dole recalled bagged spinach due to contamination with salmonella following safety testing conducted by

2385-521: The value of Dole stock prior to the buyout. Total Produce purchased a 45% stake in the Dole Food Company in 2018, and merged with Dole in 2021 to form Dole plc. Dole plc ( NYSE :  DOLE ) began trading on the New York Stock Exchange in July 2021. Covering five continents, Dole has 109,000 acres (44,000 ha) of its own farmland, 13 cargo vessels, five manufacturing plants , 75 packing houses and 160 distribution centers. Dole

2438-650: Was dismissed with prejudice the following year. Murdock took Dole public again in 2009, raising $ 446 million in the process. In 2012, Dole reached a deal to sell its packaged food division and Asian fresh produce operations to the Japanese firm Itochu for $ 1.7 billion, with the purchase concluding in April 2013. As part of the Itochu deal, the Dole brand continued to be used for some packaged food products worldwide and fresh produce in Asia, Australia and New Zealand, although

2491-496: Was elected president of Honduras, and sought to ease the growth of Honduras' debt by outsourcing government projects to the Vaccaro Bros. company in exchange for land grants. The Vaccaro Bros. worked with Dávila's government to fund roadways, railways, and shipping wharves. The land grants to the Vaccaro Bros. company upset Samuel Zemurray , owner of the Cuyamel Fruit Company who were also operating in Honduras. As

2544-417: Was married twice, first to Anna Smith, an American woman, whom he married around 1890, however Anna died in 1918. He remarried in 1927 to Louise Marie Legendre, a New Orleans native. He had no children with either spouse and died in New Orleans on October 18, 1943, at the age of 77. Stefano and Maria also had three more children: Michiele (1869-???), Francesca (1873-1903), and Michele (1856-1958). To escape

2597-696: Was one of the largest produce companies in Europe, leading in Ireland, Spain , Sweden , Denmark , and the Czech Republic . In 2007, Total Produce expanded further into the United Kingdom , purchasing British firm Redbridge Holdings for £11.75 million. In 2009, Dole was sued by families of banana workers in Colombia , who alleged that the company had bankrolled militias that killed thousands of Colombians, including trade union organizers. The suit

2650-570: Was primarily run by Joseph, Luca, and Felix Vaccaro, the three oldest of the six children of Stefano Vaccaro (1831-1911) and Maria Vaccaro (née Pumilia, 1834-1890). Stefano Vaccaro was born on May 11, 1831, in Contessa Entellina , Italy . He was the second child of Giuseppe Vaccaro and Francesca Pizzolato. The Vaccaro family had existed in Contessa Entellina since the arrival of Stephano Vaccaro from Sambuca di Sicilia around 1780. Stefano married Maria Pumilia in September 1853. During

2703-469: Was purchased by Castle & Cooke, an agricultural and real estate company founded in 1851 by S. N. Castle and A. S. Cooke which had become one of the five largest companies operating in the Territory of Hawaii . James Dole 's Hawaiian Pineapple Company was a supplier of Castle & Cooke since 1906, and Castle & Cooke had been selling Dole branded bananas since 1927. David H. Murdock bought

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2756-517: Was renamed the "Dole Company" and became a subsidiary of Castle & Cooke in 1961. Two years later, the company began expanding its fruit growing operations into southeast Asia, opening plantations and canneries in the Philippines and Thailand . While the HPC was getting established, the tropical fruit trade was growing in Central and South America , primarily with the banana trade. One of

2809-468: Was to an American woman named Marie Louise Tranchand whom he married in 1894 in Manhattan . The couple had seven children together and stayed married until Luca's death in New Orleans on November 29, 1936, at the age of 78. Felix Philip Vaccaro (1866-1943) was born on February 20, 1866, in Contessa Entellina, Italy. He was the third child born to Stefano and Maria Vaccaro. He grew up in New Orleans. He

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