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| shareholder | country | % | source |
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| country | address & contact : production type incentive source |
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| year name | photo position; compensation source |
| 2002Riley, James |  Chief Financial Officer; salary: 0,7 million US$;
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| 1998Lindner, Carl H | Chief Executive Officer; salary: 0,22 million US$; Forbes |
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year | employees <> | social impact : country source |
| 2008 | | ILO violation 87, 98 : Miguel Ángel Ramírez, a member of the banana workers’ union Sindicato de Trabajadores Bananeros del Sur, was killed on March 2, 2008. The union was founded on 15 July 2007 by a group of workers - including Miguel Ángel Ramírez – from the company Frutera Internacional Sociedad Anónima that produces bananas for the Chiquita brand. Four months after the workers had organised themselves the company obtained a list of all the founder members of the union and set about harassing and threatening them using its private security agents. Some were illegally detained as a means of pressurising them into resigning and at the end of November they were sacked from their jobs. Miguel Ángel Ramírez was forced to sign a resignation letter.: Guatemala | ITUC-CSI |
| 2007 | | ILO violation 78,98 : Chiquita's Costa Rican subsidiary COBAL has sacked two union members for complaining about being exposed to a toxic chemical. lexander Reyes Zuniga, Jaime Blanco Juarez and Marco Gonzalez Borge reported to their supervisors that spraying of a toxic nematicide (used for killing worms in banana tree roots) was going on in the same area as they were harvesting bananas. They became nauseous and dizzy and Jaime Blanco had to go to the doctor, where he was held for tests for several hours. Alexander Reyes suffered symptoms of poisoning the following day, but was told to resume work regardless. The team complained to supervisors only to be accused of entering the area to be sprayed despite orders not to do so. Alexander Reyes and Marcos Borge were sacked for misconduct. Chiquita management did not conduct any medical examination, did not give the statutory three warnings for misconduct and continues to deny the workers' version.: Costa Rica | Campaign for Labor Rights |
| 2006 | | ILO violation 87 : In Finca Cariari 4, a banana plantation belonging to the BANACOL company that supplies the multinational Chiquita, a group of workers belonging to the plantation workers’ union, Sindicato de Trabajadores de Plantaciones Agrícolas (SITRAP), formed a branch committee on 20 March. Within two months, seven union members had been dismissed, including two leaders of the committee, a few days after the committee was set up by SITRAP.: Colombia | ITUC-CSI |
| 2002 | | ILO violation 1, 26, 87, 98, 131, 138 : Bambini di 8 anni, giorno lavorativo medio dura 12 ore, guadagnano in media 3.50 dollari al giorno, licenziamenti di lavoratori iscritti a sindacato: Ecuador | Human Right Watch |
| 1994 | | ILO violation 87, 98 : Licenciements de syndicalistes, création de listes noires.: Costa Rica | SITRAP |
| 1994 | | Chiquita hires paramilitaries against unionized workers.: Costa Rica | SITRAP |
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| year | country : consequences source |
| 2005 | Honduras : According to a new lawsuit brought by over 600 Honduran banana workers, filed on 14 April in a Los Angeles federal court, the company knowingly used and distributed the pesticide 1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane (DBCP) which has resulted in widespread cases of sterility, testicular atrophy, miscarriages and other serious health complaints. The DBCP was banned by the US Environmental Protection Agency in 1979. | Ethical Corporation |
| 2004 | Nicaragua : Incriminée dans l'intoxication de travailleurs dans des bananeraies nicaraguayennes | AFP |
| 1998 | : Toxic pesticides, PCB, are used in banana plantations in Latin America. | Earth Island Journal |
| 1997 | : With Dole and Del Monte, agreed to pay a total of $41.5 million in 1997 to banana workers who proved they were sterile. | AP |
| | : 500 ouvriers devenus stériles | Le Monde Diplomatique |
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| year | country : description |
| 2008 | Guatemala : Miguel Ángel Ramírez, a member of the banana workers’ union Sindicato de Trabajadores Bananeros del Sur, was killed on March 2, 2008. The union was founded on 15 July 2007 by a group of workers - including Miguel Ángel Ramírez – from the company Frutera Internacional Sociedad Anónima that produces bananas for the Chiquita brand. Four months after the workers had organised themselves the company obtained a list of all the founder members of the union and set about harassing and threatening them using its private security agents. Some were illegally detained as a means of pressurising them into resigning and at the end of November they were sacked from their jobs. Miguel Ángel Ramírez was forced to sign a resignation letter. | ITUC-CSI |
| 2007 | Colombia : Chiquita is accused of financing and arming terrorist organizations in order to maintain its control in Colombia in the producing banana areas since the mid-nineties. These paramilitary groups are charged "of killing hundreds or thousands of people, of whom trade unionists, farm labourers and political leaders", according to the EarthRights organization. A class action suit is opened in a New Jersey court by the close relatives of six individuals supposedly killed by paramilitary groups. | AFP |
| 2007 | Colombia : In a lawsuit in the United States, Chiquita pleads guilty of paying 1.7 million dollars to the paramilitary group United Self Defence Forces of Colombia for its "protection" between 1997 and 2004. Chiquita also paid the revolutionary Forces armed of Colombia. Chiquita will pay 25 million dollars to settle this lawsuit. | BBC News |
| 1994 | Honduras : Destruction plantations, maisons, école et église | Livre |
| 1961 | Cuba : "The massacre of Ciénaga, in 1928 - several hundreds of colombian strikers killed by the army -, it is her; the coup organized in 1954 against the president of Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz, whose land policy injured its interests directly, it is still her; the financing, with the CIA, of the operation of Bay of the pigs organized in 1961 to kick off Fidel Castro, it is always her !" | Les Echos |
| 1954 | Guatemala : "The massacre of Ciénaga, in 1928 - several hundreds of colombian strikers killed by the army -, it is her; the coup organized in 1954 against the president of Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz, whose land policy injured its interests directly, it is still her; the financing, with the CIA, of the operation of Bay of the pigs organized in 1961 to kick off Fidel Castro, it is always her !" | Les Echos |
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| year | financial misdemeanor | sales | income | | | source |
| 2008 |
Chiquita, Dole and Weichert formed a cartel on the banana market in eight European countries between 2000 and 2002. The European Commission has fined them 60.3 million euros. |
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| 2007 |
The European Commission charges Fyffes, Chiquita and Dole Food of running an illegal cartel to fix prices and control supply to northern Europe. The EU alleged that the cartel covered Germany, as well as Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway.Chiquita had received a charge sheet but was granted immunity conditional on continued cooperation. |
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| 2005 |
Its european offices were raided by the EU antitrust authorities. They suspect the company of fixing prices of banana and pineapple in Europe. The existence of the cartel was disclosed by the former member Chiquita. |
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| 2004 |
| 3,07 | 0,06 | | | billion US$ | |
| 2002 |
| 1,44 | 0,01 | | | billion US$ | |
| 2001 |
| 2,24 | -0,12 | | | billion US$ | |
| 2000 |
| 2,25 | -0,09 | | | billion US$ | |
| 1999 |
| 2,56 | -0,06 | | | billion US$ | |
| 1998 |
| 2,72 | -0,02 | | | billion US$ | |
| 1970 |
" When bribes are not enough, the Ufco manipulates the price of commodities to ruin its competitors and to purchase them at a bargain." |
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| year | financial misdemeanor | sales | income | assets | buyback | source |
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| year | purpose : intermediary/lobby : institution source |
| 2000 | It is at this company that one owes the vulgarizing of the term "banana republic" when, in 1954, the CIA reverses the president of Guatemala which wanted to put its nose in the businesses of Chiquita. The multinational company was called then United Fruits. Number 1 of banana in the world, Chiquita is directed by the American billionaire Carl H Lindner, one of the largest individual contributors of the election campaign of Bill Clinton and the democrats (but the man, whose c?ur rather leans on the other side of the political chess-board finances, also republicans). Denouncing without relache the common organization of the European market, Chiquita profits from the support of the American authorities to try to put at bottom the device to work out in Brussels. :  translate | RFI |
| 2000 | Prevent binding regulation, co- or self-regulation instead. : American Chamber of Commerce's EU Committee : : European Commission translate | Corporate Europe Observatory |
| 1999 | Legislation favorable to company's interests : Direct donation : amount: 5000 thousand US$ : US President, Congress, Senate translate | Multinational Monitor |
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| year | dubious practice : image source |
| 2005 | Arguable partnership: Has announced a new public private partner ship with the German Technical Co-operation (GTZ - Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit) the Nogal Nature and Community Project – in Costa Rica.: | Novis |
| 2003 | value: Integrity, respect, opportunity and responsibility; | |
| 2000 | slogan: Chiquita banana, quite possibly, the world's perfect food.; | |
| 1951 | Disinformation: | Les Echos |
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