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3 unusual facts about Standard Fruit Company


C.D.S. Vida

The training was carried out in a small field located that was property of the Standard Fruit Company (DOLE).

Marcel Jacobo Laniado de Wind

of a farm called "Los Alamos" located in Guayas Province, Churute Region, between the Gulf of Guayaquil and a town called Puerto Inca, a farm originally owned by Standard Fruit Company (later known as Dole), the largest independent producer of bananas in the world.

Standard Fruit Company

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.


Mazapan School

Mazapan School was founded in the early 1920s by the Standard Fruit Company, today known as Dole.


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