Word: chiquitas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Your story "Banana Wars," on trade agreements and restrictions [BUSINESS, Feb. 8], painted a one-sided picture of the dilemma. The dependency of Caribbean islands like St. Vincent and the Grenadines on bananas for hard currency far outweighs Chiquita's need to maintain market share in Europe. Perhaps if Chiquita's chairman, Carl Lindner, had not spent so much time and money lobbying Congress and the White House, his company would not have "lost money four of the past five years." It's been said that business is war, and wars cost money. Chiquita is at war with the eastern...
...which doesn't grow bananas, embroiled in a banana dispute with Europe, which also doesn't grow bananas? Answer: Before the E.U. imposed the current banana regime in 1993, non-E.U. companies controlled 95% of the European banana market. Since then, American companies like Chiquita and Dole have seen their European market share plummet 50%. Hardest hit has been Chiquita, which has lost money four of the past five years--the result, company officials insist, of being denied access to the European market...
...should come as no surprise that Chiquita's chairman, Carl Lindner, is a man whose calls to Washington are returned, and quickly. In the past few years, he and his family have contributed $3.9 million to the two major political parties, and Lindner has been a guest in the Lincoln Bedroom...
...pleased that the off-yellow banana I bought last week bore a bright yellow sticker bearing the ABC logo along with the ostensibly ironic legend TV. ZERO CALORIES. I'm no food purist, and I know bananas are supposed to have stickers. But they're supposed to say chiquita, and that makes sense. Chiquita produces bananas. ABC produces the pasty mashed potato that is Dharma & Greg...
...Fired Cincinnati Enquirer reporter Michael Gallagher learns whether he can avoid testifying before a grand jury about allegations that he stole voicemail records from Chiquita...