Diskussion:Dole Food Company

Um die historische Verwicklung der heutigen Dole Food Company etwas zu klären habe ich hier mal einige Infos zusammengetragen und die wichtigsten Infos unten tabellarisch gereiht.--Eusyllis 19:45, 12. Jun 2006 (CEST) Aus der englischen Wikipedia

Standard Fruit

Now named Dole Food Company, Standard Fruit Company was established in 1924 by The Vaccaro Brothers. Its forerunner was started in 1899, when Sicilian immigrants Joseph, Luca and Felix Vaccaro, together with Salvador D'Antoni, began importing bananas to New Orleans from La Ceiba, Honduras. By 1915 the business had grown so large that it bought most of the ice factories in New Orleans, in order to refrigerate its banana ships, leading to its president Joseph Vaccaro becoming known as the "Ice King".

In 1926 the company changed its name from Standard Fruit Company into the Standard Fruit & Steamship Company. Between 1964 and 1968 the company was acquired by the Castle & Cooke Corporation. Castle & Cooke was renamed Dole Food Company, Inc. in 1991. Castle & Cooke Inc, a real estate company, was spun off in 1995 and now separately listed.

Castle & Cooke

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Castle & Cooke, Inc. is a Los Angeles-based company that was once part of the Big Five companies in territorial Hawaii. The company at one time did most of its business in agriculture. Today, however, most of the company's business is in real estate and residential, commercial, and retail development. [edit]

History

Castle & Cooke was founded as a partnership between Samuel Northrup Castle and Amos Starr Cooke as a department store that sold farm tools, sewing equipment, and medicine. Over the next few decades, the company invested heavily in Hawaii's surging sugar industry, running plantations in Kohala and Haiku. The company incorporated in 1894. In the 1910s, the company invested in Matson Navigation Company along with three other Big Five companies. In 1932, the company also bought a 21 percent of the Hawaiian Pineapple Company, which was later renamed the Dole Food Company. Castle & Cooke bought out Dole in 1961.

The company maintained Dole's large pineapple plantations throughout the state, including a particularly large one on the island of Lanai, where Castle & Cooke owned about 95 percent of the island.

In the decades that followed, Castle & Cooke began to face severe financial trouble as Hawaii's agriculture industry weakened. In 1985, the company merged with the Flexi-Van Corporation, a transportation leasing company. In 1991, the company was renamed Dole Food Company.

In 1995, the real estate operations of The Dole Food Company were spun off as the newly reformed company Castle & Cooke. The new Castle & Cooke was bought by Dole CEO, David H. Murdock, who remains the CEO of Castle & Cooke today.

Doles Geschichtsseite

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1849 Castle and Cooke form a partnership to run a private storehouse that was once the missionary depository. -> Gründung von Castle and Cooke als Warenhaus auf Hawaii

1894 Castle & Cooke is incorporated under the laws of Hawaii. (Formale Firmengründung)

1899 Standard Fruits Companys forerunner was started in 1899, when Sicilian immigrants Joseph, Luca and Felix Vaccaro, together with Salvador D'Antoni, began importing bananas to New Orleans from La Ceiba, Honduras.

1901 James Dole gründet die "Hawaiian Pineapple Company"

1924 Standard Fruit Company was established in 1924 by The Vaccaro Brothers.

1932 Castle & Cooke acquires ownership of 21% of the Hawaiian Pineapple Company.

1933 Recognizing the popularity and significance of quality in James Dole's name, the company first stamps "DOLE" on cans of pineapple and pineapple juice. : Dole: Aus Name wird Marke

1961 Castle & Cooke bought out James Dole of "Hawaiian Pineapple Company" in 1961.

1964 Castle & Cooke purchases 55% interest in Standard Fruit & Steamship Company, New Orleans, entering the banana business.

1985 Castle & Cooke merged with the Flexi-Van Corporation, a transportation leasing company

1991 Castle & Cooke was renamed Dole Food Company, Inc.

1995 Castle & Cooke Inc, a real estate company, was spun off and bought by the Dole Food Company CEO David H. Murdock.