With all its accomplishments, however, Chiquita has not appeased everyone. Critics have called on the banana giant to go completely organic – eliminating all chemical pesticides, which McLaughlin and ...

Panama's Minister of Labor, Jackeline Muñoz, informed that the administrative part of Chiquita Panama is no longer in the ...

The strike by Chiquita banana workers in Panama came to an end this week, after the unions SITRAIBANA and SITRAPBI signed an ...

The company will begin selling organic bananas Feb. 1. Rival Chiquita Brands International Inc. has no current plans to sell organic bananas under its label, a spokeswoman said. Shares of Westlake ...

It's a ticking time bomb for the whole banana industry. Chiquita, one of the biggest fruit sellers on the planet, is working on a solution. Scientists with the company are using a genetic bank ...

Banana giant Chiquita Brands International must pay more than $38 million in damages to victims of a Colombian paramilitary group the company was found liable for financing in the late 1990s and ...

A Florida jury on Monday found banana company Chiquita Brands International liable for financing the Colombian paramilitary group Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC). The jury in the civil case ...

A Florida jury ruled Monday that Chiquita Brands International, the banana conglomerate, is liable for financing a paramilitary group in Colombia that killed eight men, and it has been ordered to ...

Banana company Chiquita Brands International has been found liable for financing a far-right Colombian paramilitary group and ordered to pay $38.3 million in damages to the families of eight men ...

The lawsuit was first brought in 2008, alleging that Chiquita Banana paid the group, which allowed them to carry out violent attacks in Columbia. Now, 16 years later, the victims’ families ...