Chiquita Brands International, Inc., American Corporation, Fruit & Produce Supplier

Chiquita is a corporation that traces its origins to the United Fruit Company, which was founded in 1899 to produce bananas. Chiquita has many subsidiaries around the world that market and distribute fruits, vegetables, and other produce, and it has a long complicated history with countries in the Caribbean and Central and South America, where its products, particularly bananas, are grown. The Miss Chiquita character is among the company’s most-enduring brand symbols.

12 Chiquita Brands International Royalty-Free Photos and Stock Images

United Fruit Company Map, Chiquita Brands, 1909, Chiquita Bananas, Fruit Growers in Mexico and USA. Print Produced From the Original Map. - Canada

United Fruit Company: massacres, coups, and food monopoly

Chiquita Fyffes merger could change face of banana industry

Keeping the Throne: Bananas Still the Produce King - Produce Business

Chiquita Brands: Agribusiness and its Links with Paramilitaries in Colombia - LatinAmerican Post

Chiquita buys Fyffes to create world's biggest banana supplier

Going bananas

It's official: Chiquita goes private as acquisition closes - Charlotte Business Journal

United Fruit Company: massacres, coups, and food monopoly

Properly Displaying North America's Best Loved Fruit Will Draw Shoppers into Stores and Produce Departments - Produce Business