Companies Chiquita Brands has been the biggest victim of the great banana war of 1992, as prices and profits dropped sharply.

Another company whose stock benefited from reorganization was Chiquita Brands, formerly United Brands.

The enterprise changed its name to Chiquita Brands and operates with that name to this day.

Chiquita Brands says less can be more.

Nonetheless, Chiquita Brands may not be the only company involved with the AUC.

By contrast, Dole Food's multiple is 17 and Chiquita Brands' is 18.

An offering of $250 million worth of noncallable 13-year senior notes from Chiquita Brands highlighted an otherwise slow day in the investment-grade corporate bond market.

The 144 plaintiffs allege that terrorists funded by Chiquita Brands killed 173 individuals of whom the plaintiffs legal representatives.

Without the preference, the independent growers who undergird many island economies fear they will not be able to compete with giant companies like Chiquita Brands.

Another was the Bananagate scandal in which Chiquita Brands had bribed the President of Honduras to lower taxes.