Title: United Fruit Company - Wikipedia
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United Fruit Company
Contents
Corporate history
Early history
United Fruit (1899–1970)
United Brands (1970–1984)
Chiquita Brands International
Reputation
History in Latin America
Environmental effects
Guatemala
Cuba
Banana massacre
The United Fruit Company in Honduras
Attempt at state capture
Banana multinational establishment and expansion
Social welfare programs for employees of United Fruit Company
Agriculture research and training
United fruit and labor challenges
Invasive banana diseases
Labor health risks
Resistance and reformation
Labor unionization
Nationalist movement
End of the Honduran banana republic era
Aiding and abetting a terrorist organization
The Great White Fleet
See also
References
Sources
Further reading
External links

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Entrance façade of the old United Fruit Building at 321 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana
The United Fruit Company, now Chiquita Brands International, was an American corporation that traded in tropical fruit (primarily bananas) grown on Latin American plantations and sold in the United States and Europe. The company was formed in 1899, from the merger of Minor C. Keith 's banana-trading concerns with Andrew W. Preston 's Boston Fruit Company. It flourished in the early and mid-20th century, and it came to control vast territories and transportation networks in Central America, the Caribbean coast of Colombia and the West Indies. Though it competed with the Standard Fruit Company (later Dole Food Company) for dominance in the international banana trade, it maintained a virtual monopoly in certain regions, some of which came to be called banana republics, such as Costa Rica, Honduras, and Guatemala. United Fruit had a deep and long-lasting impact on the economic and political development of several Latin American countries. Critics often accused it of exploitative neocolonialism, and described it as the archetypal example of the influence of a multinational corporation on the internal politics of the banana republics.