thumb|James Drummond Dole (1877–1958) was the early promoter of the pineapple industry in Hawaii. He founded the company now known as the Dole Food Company. thumb|Del Monte pineapple fields in Bukidnon, Philippines Hawaiian production started to decline from the 1970s because of competition and the shift to refrigerated sea transport. Dole ceased its cannery operations in Honolulu in 1991, and in 2008, Del Monte terminated its pineapple-growing operations in Hawaii. In 2009, the Maui Pineapple Company reduced its operations to supply pineapples only locally on Maui, and by 2013, only the Dole Plantation on Oahu grew pineapples in a volume of about 0.1 percent of the world's production. Despite this decline, the pineapple is sometimes used as a symbol of Hawaii."The Agriculture of Hawaii: Hawaii Pineapples". To-Hawaii.com. Accessed 28 August 2018.E.g., Further, foods with pineapple in them are sometimes known as "Hawaiian" for this reason alone.
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