Dole buys pineapple farms.
Dole dole, distribution to the poor, usually of food or money. In medieval times doles were usually from bequests of money or land, and the income was given to charity or distributed to the local poor at funerals. Food Co., Inc. last week said it bought $15.3 million worth of
Costa Rican pineapple pineapple, common name for one member of and for the Bromeliaceae, a family of chiefly epiphytic herbs and small shrubs native to the American tropics and subtropics. farms.
The company is the world's largest producer of fresh fruit and
vegetables, with reported revenues last year of $4.4 billion.
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