| LC control no. | n 79006852 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | United Fruit Company |
| Variant(s) | I︠U︡naĭted frut kompani United Fruit (Firm) UFCO (United Fruit Company) |
| See also | Cuyamel Fruit Company Predecessor: Boston Fruit Company Successor: United Brands Company Incumbent: Zemurray, Samuel, 1877-1961 |
| Beginning date | 18990330 |
| Ending date | 1970 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Guatemala Honduras Costa Rica Central America Caribbean Area Europe |
| Located | Boston (Mass.) New Orleans (La.) |
| Field of activity | Banana trade Tropical fruit industry |
| Found in | Glosas a la prensa de fuera ... 1928. Reminiscencias de un bananero, 1995: p. 15 (United Fruit) p. 4 of cover (United Fruit Company) The Cambridge history of Latin America. Volume V, c. 1870-1930, 1986, viewed online 8 July 2014: p. 211-212 (United Fruit Company (UFCO), formed in 1899, began its operations in Guatemala; from 1906, the banana company expanded its holdings, including large-scale penetration in Honduras, purchases in Costa Rica, and establishment in Nicaragua (from 1930 through a subsidiary company, the Cukra Development Company); in 1902, Samuel Zemurray obtained a concession of Honduran public lands; in 1911, his enterprise became the Cuyamel Fruit Company; a series of conflicts that began between Honduras and Guatemala in 1913 were the effects of the rivalry between the Cuyamel and the UFCO; the conflicts ceased in 1929, when the two companies merged; in 1930, throughout Central America, the UFCO had overtaken all of its rivals) Chiquita Web site, 21 July 2014: main page (Chiquita; Chiquita Brands International; headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina) The Chiquita story (founding by Captain Lorenzo Dow Baker in 1870; 1885: Captain Baker started a partnership with Andrew Preston and investors and called it Boston Fruit Company; Minor C. Keith and his railroad companies merged with the Boston Fruit Company to create the United Fruit Company on March 30, 1899; 1947: "Chiquita" was registered as a trademark in the United States; 1966: the Chiquita brand was introduced in Europe; 1970: the Company merged with AMK Corporation [no publications in OCLC database, 21 July 2014], which operated the John Morrell meat business, and name changed to United Brands Company; 1990: the Company officially changed its name to Chiquita Brands International, Inc.) <http://www.chiquita.com> Wikipedia, 8 July 2014: United Fruit Company (United Fruit Company; United Fruit; 1899-1970; was an American corporation that traded in tropical fruit (primarily bananas), grown on Central and South American plantations, and sold in the United States and Europe; the company was formed in 1899, from the merger of Minor C. Keith's banana-trading concerns with Andrew W. Preston's Boston Fruit Company; it flourished in the early and mid-20th century, and it came to control vast territories and transportation networks in Central America, the Caribbean coast of Colombia, Ecuador, and the West Indies; it maintained a virtual monopoly in certain regions, some of which came to be called banana republics, such as Costa Rica, Honduras, and Guatemala; in 1930, Sam Zemurray sold his Cuyamel Fruit Company to United Fruit; in 1933, he staged a hostile takeover; Zemurray moved the company's headquarters to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he was based; Zemurray resigned as president of the company in 1951; United Fruit was merged with Eli M. Black's AMK [no publications in OCLC database, 21 July 2014] in 1970, to become the United Brands Company; in 1984, Carl Lindner, Jr., transformed United Brands into the present-day Chiquita Brands International) Boston Fruit Company (Boston Fruit Company (1885-1899); was a fruit production and import business based in the port of Boston, Massachusetts; Andrew W. Preston and nine others established the firm to ship bananas and other fruit from the West Indies to north-eastern America; in March 1899, Preston formed an agreement with Minor C. Keith, and the United Fruit Company was formed through the consolidation of the Boston Fruit Company and the companies headed by Keith, which secured their bananas from Central America and Santa Marta, Colombia) Wikipedia, 7 July 2014: Cuyamel Fruit Company (Cuyamel Fruit Company, formerly the Hubbard-Zemurray Steam Ship Company [no publications in OCLC database, 7 July 2014], was an American agricultural corporation operating in Honduras from 1911 until 1929, before being purchased by the United Fruit Company; Samuel Zemurray founded Cuyamel to export bananas and sugar from the northwestern Cortés region of Honduras to international markets; Zemurray would later become the head of the United Fruit Company; both Cuyamel and United Fruit are corporate ancestors of the modern-day firm Chiquita Brands International; after earning enough profit selling bananas in New Orleans, Louisiana, Zemurray helped start a steamship line to import bananas from the tropics to sell in the United States; this firm was known as the Hubbard-Zemurray Steam Ship Company; Zemurray headed to Honduras to expand his company into banana production; with its new operations in Honduras, Hubbard-Zemurray would eventually become Cuyamel; in 1929, after the October crash of international financial markets, Zemurray sold Cuyamel to United Fruit) Sam Zemurray (Sam Zemurray; born January 18, 1877, in Kishinev, Bessarabia, Russian Empire, present-day Chișinău, Moldova; died November 30, 1961, in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he had lived most of his life; U.S. businessman who made his fortune in the banana trade; he founded the Cuyamel Fruit Company; in 1930, Zemurray sold his company, Cuyamel Fruit, to the rival United Fruit Company of Boston, Massachusetts; later became head of the United Fruit Company, the world's most influential fruit company at the time; retired as president of United Fruit in late 1954) |
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