Chiquita is launching a new campaign titled “Likely the Best Snack Ever,” aimed at positioning bananas as a naturally sweet, ...

Banana producer Chiquita on Thursday announced it would lay off thousands of workers in Panama, following what it called "unjustified abandonment of work" on its farms and operations centres since ...

US banana giant Chiquita fires thousands over Panama strike. President Jose Raul Mulino, whose changes to social security laws prompted the protest, called the strike ‘illegal’ and said the ...

Dan Koeppel, or “Dan the Banana Man,” discussed the history and future of the banana industry at the Athenaeum on Feb. 12. Koeppel is the author of numerous books, including “Banana: The Fate of the ...

Chiquita Banana brings free bananas—and a really cool bag—to Art Basel Miami Beach, capitalizing on Sotheby's $6.2 million banana artwork.

In late September, Chiquita, in partnership with KeyGene, MusaRadix, and Wageningen University and Research (WUR), announced the new Yelloway One, a banana hybrid that it says is resistant to the ...

Sustainable Business; Scientists See Hope in Race to Save the Banana Chiquita announced a new disease-resistant strain, and Australian researchers have developed a genetically modified fruit ...

Banana production has been increasingly steadily, but threats loom closeby. The Bananocalypse is nigh. TR4, a strain of the Fusarium fungus, infects the soil and can remain there for decades.

Those early bananas were not the same as those we enjoy today. The original fruit, found in the wild, was full of large and hard seeds and lacked the pulp that we today associate with the banana. The ...

On June 10, Colombian civilians, banana workers, and their families won a historic victory against Chiquita Brands International and its former subsidiary, Banadex. The 17-year-old case stemmed ...