Dole Food Company, Inc.

Dole Food Company, Inc. engages in growing, sourcing, processing, marketing, and distributing fresh fruits and vegetables to wholesale, retail, and institutional customers and other food product companies worldwide. It operates in two segments: fresh fruit and fresh vegetables. The Fresh Fruit segment provides bananas under the DOLE brand, as well as pineapples, and exports diversified fruits such as grapes, citrus, apples, pears, cherries, blueberries, stone fruits, and kiwifruit. The Fresh Vegetable segment sources, harvests, cools, distributes, and markets various fresh and fresh-cut vegetables, including iceberg lettuce, red and green leaf lettuce, romaine lettuce, butter lettuce, celery, cauliflower, broccoli, carrots, Brussels sprouts, green onions, asparagus, snow peas, artichokes, and radishes primarily in North America; and strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries in North and Latin America. This segment also processes and markets value-added vegetable products, such as packaged salads and packaged fresh-cut vegetables. Dole Food Company, Inc. has a strategic partnership with Elo Life Systems, Inc. to develop various banana varieties. The company was founded in 1851 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina with an additional office in Westlake Village, California. Dole Food Company, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Dole plc.