United Fruit Company

Examples of United Fruit Company in the following topics:

• The Banana Wars

  • Honduras, where the United Fruit Company and Standard Fruit Company dominated the country's key banana export sector and associated land holdings and railways, saw the insertion of American troops in 1903, 1907, 1911, 1912, 1919, 1924, and 1925.
  • The first company that concluded an agreement with the Honduras government was the Vaccaro Brothers Company (Standard Fruit Company).
  • The Cuyamel Fruit Company then followed that lead.
  • The United Fruit Company also agreed to a contract with the government, which was attained through its subsidies (the Tela Rail Road Company and Truxillo Rail Road Company).
  • The most popular avenue was to obtain a grab on a piece of land in exchange for the completion of railroads in Honduras; this explains why a railroad company conducted the agreement between the United Fruit Company and Honduras.

• Promoting Peace Abroad

  • After World War I, manufacturing companies faced hard times as they attempted to convert from wartime production of weapons and planes to peacetime manufacturing of goods.
  • Harding and Vice President Calvin Coolidge, who became president following Harding’s death in 1923, fostered the growth of U.S. companies.
  • American meat packers moved to Argentina; fruit growers established themselves in Costa Rica, Honduras and Guatemala; sugar plantation owners went to Cuba; rubber plantation owners to the Philippines, Sumatra, and Malaya; copper corporations to Chile; and oil companies to Mexico and Venezuela.
  • Coolidge represented the United States at the Pan American Conference in Havana, Cuba, making him the only sitting president to visit the country.
  • The treaty, ratified in 1929, committed signatories including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan to "renounce war, as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another."

• Public and Private Bureaucracies

  • The Great Depression was a time of significant upheaval in the United States.
  • Directors of companies are held accountable by the shareholders of companies.
  • At times, they are not held accountable because of rules found in company law statutes.
  • In the United States during the 1930's, the typical company laws (e.g. in Delaware) did not clearly mandate such rights.
  • Berle argued that the unaccountable directors of companies were therefore apt to funnel the fruits of enterprise profits into their own pockets, as well as manage in their own interests.

• Benefits of Globalization

  • Globalization has lead to valuable, world-wide cross-cultural understanding and the fruitful exchange of products and ideas.
  • The creation and existence of the United Nations, for example, has been called one of the classic examples of political globalization.

• The Louisiana Purchase

  • The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States overnight, provided an outlet to the sea for the products of the western states, and ensured a place for the United States among the world's largest powers.
  • Because the Appalachian Mountains formed a natural barrier and made passage to the West nearly impossible, Daniel Boone established the Wilderness Road in 1775, when he created a trail for the Transylvania Company from Virginia through central Kentucky.
  • Yeoman agriculture, as depicted by the Democratic-Republicans, was a system of farming in which an independent (white male) farmer owned his own land and the fruits of his labor (and therefore, could impartially participate in the political process).
  • Acquiring the territory would double the size of the United States at a sum of less than 3 cents per acre.
  • The purchase also had several long-term detrimental effects on the United States.

• Economic Conversion

  • Its purpose was to regulate the production of materials during World War II in the United States.
  • Factories that made silk ribbons now produced parachutes, automobile factories built tanks, typewriter companies converted to machine guns, undergarment manufacturers sewed mosquito netting, and a roller coaster manufacturer converted to the production of bomber repair platforms.
  • Automobile factories stopped manufacturing civilian models by early February 1942 and converted to producing tanks, aircraft, weapons, and other military products, with the United States government as the only customer. 
  • By June 1942 companies also stopped manufacturing metal office furniture, radios, phonographs, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, washing machines, and sewing machines for civilians.
  • Typewriters, gasoline, bicycles, footwear, silk, nylon, fuel oil, stoves, meat, lard, shortening and food oils, cheese, butter, margarine, processed foods (canned, bottled, and frozen), dried fruits, canned milk, firewood and coal, jams, jellies, and fruit butter were rationed by November 1943.

• A Brief Definition of Brand

  • Campbell Soup, Coca-Cola, Juicy Fruit gum, Aunt Jemima, and Quaker Oats were among the first products to be "branded. "
  • Factories branded their logo or insignia on the barrels used and the logo of the companies to which the cargo was being shipped.
  • Campbell Soup, Coca-Cola , Juicy Fruit gum, Aunt Jemima, and Quaker Oats were among the first U.S. products to be "branded. "
  • Brands convey positive or negative messages about a product, along with indicating the company or service to the consumer, which is a direct result of past advertising, promotion, and product reputation.

• Dietary Fiber

  • Soluble fiber is found in varying quantities in all plant foods including legumes (peas, soybeans, lupins, and other beans), oats, rye, chia, and barley, some fruits and fruit juices (including prune juice, plums, berries, bananas, and the insides of apples and pears), certain vegetables such as broccoli, carrots, and Jerusalem artichokes, root tubers and root vegetables such as sweet potatoes and onions (skins of these are also sources of insoluble fiber), psyllium seed husk (a mucilage soluble fiber) and flax seeds, and nuts (almonds are the highest in dietary fiber).
  • Sources of insoluble fiber include whole grain foods, wheat and corn bran, nuts and seeds, potato skins, hemp seed, lignans, vegetables such as green beans, cauliflower, zucchini (courgette), celery, and nopal, some fruits including avocado, and unripe bananas, and the skins of some fruits, including kiwifruit and tomatoes.
  • Current recommendations from the United States Institutes of Medicine suggest that adults should consume 20–35 grams of dietary fiber per day, but the average American's daily intake of dietary fiber is only 12–18 grams.

• Introduction to Eliminating Waste at Work

  • To get started, gather your employees together, explain what needs to be done (and why) and begin with what is commonly called ‘the low-hanging fruit' (the easiest tasks).
  • Additional waste-reduction suggestions include: (AP Wire Service/CBS News, ‘More Cities Taking Back Company Tax Breaks')
  • Initiate a company vehicle inspection program.
  • Ensure that all company vehicles are both efficient and well maintained.

• Defining a Brand

  • Campbell Soup, Coca-Cola, Juicy Fruit gum, Aunt Jemima, and Quaker Oats were among the first products to be "branded. "
  • Campbell Soup, Coca-Cola , Juicy Fruit gum, Aunt Jemima, and Quaker Oats were among the first products to be "branded. "
  • Brands convey positive or negative messages about a product, along with indicating the company or service to the consumer, which is a direct result of past advertising, promotion, and product reputation.