News & Events
Press Releases & Coverage
Chiquita Takes Aim at Convenience Store Market
NPR - April 13, 2007
Chiquita is now offering individual bananas in convenience stores as a way to boost stagnant sales. The company uses a special polymer packaging to keep the bananas ripe and ready-to-eat for up to a week.
Fresh-Cut Goes to War
Fresh Cut Magazine - April, 2007
The United States military has soldiers across the country, and each branch is tasked with feeding them healthy meals. Because fruits and vegetables are important to a healthy diet, researchers at the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Developement and Engineering Center's Combat Feeding Directorate are finding new ways to get fresh produce to soldiers in the field or sea.
Shaking the tree
Cincinnati Business Courier - June 12, 2006
For decades, the battle for banana market share has raged in the produce aisle of your favorite grocery store. Now, Chiquita Brands International Inc. is trying to shift that battlefield to the coffee shop, the convenience store and the corner gas station.
Bananas going bonkers at some local convenience stores
Santa Cruz Sentinel - May 18, 2006
The bananas sell for 69 cents a piece, right up there next to the lighters, the chocolate-covered cherries and countless candy bars at the Valero gas station on San Miguel Canyon Road.
Chiquita Bananas To Be Distributed to C-stores Throughout North America by Core-Mark International
Wednesday February 22, 9:00 am ET
Chiquita Brands International, Inc. (NYSE: CQB - News) and Core-Mark International (Nasdaq: CORE - News), one of the largest North American distributors to the convenience retail industry, have entered into an arrangement to distribute Chiquita bananas using Landec Corporation's (Nasdaq: LNDC - News) patented packaging technology to convenience stores (C-stores) throughout the Core-Mark network.
Landec Food Subsidiary Apio, Inc. Creates New Technology Division
Business Wire - June 21, 2005
Chiquita Brands International, Inc. (NYSE: CQB - News) and Core-Mark International (Nasdaq: CORE - News), one of the largest North American distributors to the convenience retail industry, have entered into an arrangement to distribute Chiquita bananas using Landec Corporation's (Nasdaq: LNDC - News) patented packaging technology to convenience stores (C-stores) throughout the Core-Mark network.
Events
United Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Association—Produce show at FMI
Chicago, May 5th-8th 2007
McCormick Place
Chicago, Illinois
Booth #1133
Produce Marketing Association (PMA) Fresh Summit Intl. Convention & Exposition
Houston, October 13th –15th 2007
George R. Brown Convention Center
Houston, Texas
Booth #1419