Standard Fruit Company
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standard-fruit-company-177-363881
title:
Standard Fruit Company
text:
The Standard Fruit Company was established in the United States in 1924 by the Vaccaro brothers. Its forerunner was started in 1899, when Sicilian Arberesh immigrants Joseph, Luca and Felix Vaccaro, together with Salvador D'Antoni, began importing bananas to New Orleans from La Ceiba, Honduras. By 1915, the business had grown so large that it bought most of the ice factories in New Orleans in order to refrigerate its banana ships, leading to its president, Joseph Vaccaro, becoming known as the "
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
American fruit company
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Fruit_Company
date created:
2004-10-31T19:40:35Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T22:18:02Z
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