Title: Chiquita Banana Supply Chain
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Chiquita Banana Supply Chain
Map of the general supply chain of Chiquita Banana
Overview of Supply Chain
Chiquita Displaces Locations
The Good and Bad of Chiquita
Governance
Chiquita and the WTO
Labor
Labor Conditions and "Race to Bottom"
Attempts at Improvement
Environment
More Environmental Impacts
Discourse, Images, and Brand Identity
Discourse, Images, and Brand Identity (cont.)
Discourse, Images, Brand Identity (cont.)

Content: This a had huge effect on the state and local economy in MS; however, Chiquita has since returned its operations to Gulfport. Facebook Twitter Share
The Good and Bad of Chiquita
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The United Fruit Company “brought jobs, it brought […] modernism, it brought trains, it brought electricity [… but] what it also brought was environmental destruction, [and] danger, [since] these jobs [were] not easy.” - Benjamin Shuldiner (HPR)
Chiquita’s monopolies on ports and railroads, “they had [… monopolies on] communications, they had monopolies on the telegraph, on the mail. […] the electric company of Guatemala was also provided by [Chiquita]. This was a monopoly that [went] beyond just the production of bananas […] because it was so far reaching to many other aspects of everyday life.” - Alberto Castillo-Ventura (HPR)
Basically, Chiquita maintained a stranglehold over the Latin American economy, which allowed it to do as it pleased with little to no consequences..but more on this later. Chiquita was the first major banana exporter to be involved in certification. In 1992 Chiquita, with the help of the Rainforest Alliance started the Better Banana Project (BBP). As early as 2001 Chiquita was able to get all its farms in Latin American certified under these standards.