Chiquita
Banana producer and distributor company
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| June 2025 | Chiquita fired all employees in Panama following the workers' strike. |
| May 2025 | Banana workers in Panama went on strike, protesting various issues including changes to pensions. |
| June 2024 | A federal jury in the Southern District of Florida found Chiquita liable for the killing of eight Colombians by the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia and ordered the company to pay $38.3 million to victims' families. |
| 2019 | Chiquita relocated its main offices from the United States to Switzerland. |
| April 2019 | Swiss magazine Beobachter revealed severe labor rights issues on Ecuadorian banana plantations supplying Chiquita, documenting exploitative conditions including 12-hour workdays, poverty wages, and employment without contracts. |
| 2018 | Colombia's Office of the Attorney General filed charges against 13 Chiquita Brands International executives for payments to the AUC paramilitary group. |
| February 2018 | Chiquita reached an agreement with the families of victims of paramilitary violence. |
| 2016 | Judge Kenneth Marra of the Southern District of Florida allowed Colombians to sue former Chiquita Brand International executives for funding right-wing paramilitary organizations. |
| July 24 2014 | A US appeals court dismissed a lawsuit by 4,000 Colombians against Chiquita alleging the corporation aided a right-wing paramilitary group responsible for family members' deaths. |
| 2013 | Chiquita spent $780,000 lobbying against the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, hiring lobbyists from Covington and Burling. |
| November 29 2011 | North Carolina Economic Investment Committee approved $22 million in incentives for Chiquita to move its headquarters to Charlotte, North Carolina. Chiquita officially announced the move on the same day, with new headquarters to be located in the NASCAR Plaza tower, including relocation of research and development to the Charlotte area. |
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