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    Dole plc (previously named Dole Food Company and Standard Fruit Company) is an Irish-American agricultural multinational corporation headquartered in...
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    reorganized to become the Dole Food Company that operates in over 90 countries. Dole was a cousin (once removed) of Sanford B. Dole, President of the Republic...
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    Dole Whip (also known as Dole Soft Serve) is a soft serve dairy-free frozen dessert created by Dole Food Company in 1983. Prior to 2023, when Dole Whip...
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    Dole does. That's not something Bob Dole has ever done, or that Bob Dole will ever do." He had no relation to the Dole plc or its namesake James Dole...
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  • Total Produce (category Dole plc)
    Gruppen. On 30 July 2021, Total Produce plc merged with Dole Food Company, Inc under the new name "Dole plc." The company's range includes deciduous...
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    The Dole Air Race, also known as the Dole Derby, was an air race across the Pacific Ocean from Oakland, California, to Honolulu in the Territory of Hawaii...
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    the United Fruit Company (now Chiquita) and Standard Fruit Company (now Dole plc), also had financial stakes in the production of bananas, tobacco, sugarcane...
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    Standard Fruit Company (category Dole plc)
    The Standard Fruit Company (now Dole plc) was established in the United States in 1924 by the Vaccaro brothers. Its forerunner was started in 1899, when...
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    Matson, Inc. (category Dole plc)
    Matson, Inc., is an American shipping and navigation services company headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii. Founded in 1882, Matson, Inc.'s subsidiary Matson...
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  • Big Five (Hawaii) (category Dole plc)
    as equivalent to an oligarchy. Attorney General of Hawaii Edmund Pearson Dole, referring to the Big Five, said in 1903: "There is a government in this...
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  • Castle & Cooke (category Dole plc)
    mergers with the modern Dole Food Company, the world's largest producer of fruits and vegetables. In 1995, it was spun off from Dole and today most of the...
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    David H. Murdock (category Dole plc)
    producer Dole Food Company. He developed Castle & Cooke's real estate portfolio into residential and commercial properties and turned Dole into the world's...
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    Motors into the United States. The port holds a 24 1/2-year lease with Dole plc, bringing in much of the country's banana crop. It is the third-busiest...
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  • renamed Castle & Cooke to the Dole Food Company. Murdock split the two companies into two separate companies, Dole plc and Castle & Cooke, Inc., in 1995...
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  • The Dole Nutrition Institute (DNI) is a research and education foundation within the Dole Food Company and is based in Kannapolis, North Carolina, at...
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    Samuel Northrup Castle (category Dole plc)
    Samuel Northrup Castle (August 12, 1808 –July 14, 1894) was a businessman and politician in the Kingdom of Hawaii. Samuel Northrup Castle was born August...
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  • Bananas!* (category Dole plc)
    Swedish documentary directed by Fredrik Gertten about a conflict between the Dole Food Company and banana plantation workers in Nicaragua over alleged cases...
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    Amos Starr Cooke (category Dole plc)
    Amos Starr Cooke (December 1, 1810 – March 20, 1871) was an American educator and businessman in the Kingdom of Hawaii. He was patriarch of a family that...
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  • Jack Larsen (politician) (category Dole plc)
    graduated from Colgate University in 1950. Larsen worked many years for Dole Food. Larsen served in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 1975 to 1980...
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    USS Dale (DD-290) (category Dole plc)
    The third USS Dale (DD-290) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for Richard Dale. Dale was launched 19 November 1919...
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    Pantene, Aussie and Herbal Essences, produced in the U.S. USA: December 27: Dole plc recalls its packaged salad processed in the company's Bessemer City, North...
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  • Del Monte Fresh Produce Co. v. Dole Food Co., 136 F. Supp. 2d 1271 (S.D. Fla. 2001), was a trade secret misappropriation case where Del Monte Fresh Produce...
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  • Companies Deere-Hitachi Construction Machinery Deltec Homes Dentsply Sirona Dole plc (US headquarters) Duke Energy Earth Fare Enpro Industries Environmental...
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  • Big Boys Gone Bananas!* (category Dole plc)
    Fredrik Gertten. The film is about how Gertten's film company was sued by Dole for the 2009 documentary film Bananas!*. This lawsuit is a type of case known...
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    Haiku Mill (category Dole plc)
    The Haidu Mill or Haʻikū Sugar Mill was a processing factory for sugarcane from 1861 to 1879 on the island of Maui in Hawaii. The northeastern coast of...
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    USS Osborne (category Dole plc)
    USS Osborne (DD-295) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy following World War I. She was named for Weedon Osborne. Osborne was laid...
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    Inmos International plc (trademark INMOS) and two operating subsidiaries, Inmos Limited (UK) and Inmos Corporation (US), was a British semiconductor company...
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    operated by Carnival Cruise Line, a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc. Built in Helsinki by Kværner Masa-Yards, she was the first Spirit-class...
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    November 1942 SS Abangarez, a United Fruit banana boat, circa 1945 MV Dole Ecuador Dole's ship Tropical Mist, Hamburg port Banana republic S. Swiggum and M...
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  • After two years in the army, he spent a further two years queuing up at the dole office during The Great Depression that followed World War I. He then moved...
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