Title: Chiquita Brand Story | Who is Miss Chiquita? | Chiquita bananas
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Chiquita is bananas
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1870
The origin of Chiquita
Our story began over than a century ago, when shipping fresh bananas and preventing them from ripening route was a real challenge. The first banana shippers, relying on favorable winds, could only hope that their cargo would not ripen before they reached port. 1870
Captain Lorenzo Dow Baker
When Captain Lorenzo Dow Baker sailed the fishing schooner Telegraph from Jamaica to Jersey City in 1870 with a cargo of 160 bunches of bananas, he simply stowed them on deck and waited for fair winds. His luck held, and he arrived in New Jersey 11 days later, where he sold his cargo for a profit of $2.00 per bunch. In 1885, Captain Baker started a partnership with Andrew Preston and investors and called it Boston Fruit Company. This was the modest beginning of the global phenomenon that is now known as Chiquita Brands International. 01 / 01
1899
United fruit company
In 1899, the United Fruit Company was founded. This was the fruit (to coin a phrase) of the merger of the Boston Fruit Company, owned by Captain Baker and Andrew Preston, and the Minor C. Keith railroad company, which had planted bananas alongside its tracks. 1899
United Fruit Company
The company was created on March 30; United Fruit Company issued its first annual shareholders report a year later, in 1900, and was first listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1903.