Cuyamel Fruit Company

Cuyamel Fruit Company

Cuyamel Fruit was a Honduran fruit company founded by Samuel Zemurray in 1910, to export fruit inland from Puerto Cortés, Honduras. Zemurray started as a banana retailer in Mobile, Alabama and moved to Honduras in order to participate in growing and exporting fruit. He acquired 5,000 acres of land along the Cuyamel River to plant bananas.

The company soon controlled the banana business from Puerto Cortés, and became the chief competitor of the United Fruit Company; at its height, it controlled several steamships and a railroad.[1]

In 1930, Zemurray sold the company to United Fruit (eventually Chiquita Brands International)

References

  1. ^ Cuyamel Fruit Company from the Lehman Brothers collection of the Twentieth-Century Business Archives of the Baker Library of Harvard Business School; published 2010, retrieved May 12, 2011

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