Executive Summary This report details several international management problems that Chiquita has been faced with over the past two decades. Many of these problems are to do with the company’s previously poor image when it came to Corporate and Social responsibility. Over the years Chiquita faced many accusations about the conditions workers were faced with at many of their facilities in Latin America and have also had their environmental policies questioned many times in the press. The company
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Abstract: Chiquita Brands International and its leaders learned a very hard lesson about paying off terrorist groups to protect their employees. Over the past 25 years‚ no place has been more perilous for companies than Colombia‚ a country that is finally beginning to emerge from the effects its Colombian banana subsidiaries had made protection payments to terrorist groups from 1997 through 2004. The Justice Department began an investigation‚ focusing on the role and conduct of Chiquita and some of
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1. Do you agree with the 11thUS Court of Appeals ruling that cleared Chiquita of any liability for the victims killed by the paramilitary group that Chiquita funded? Construct an ethical argument that supports your view. I disagree with the Court’s decision to clear Chiquita of any responsibility for killings committed by the militant groups in Columbia that were supported financially by the U.S. based company. The application of the 1789 Alien Tort Statute is questionable because the judge found
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MEMO To: Chiquita Brands International Introduction: For the subject choosing a strategy to overcome effects of EU’s banana policy‚ I have gone through the whole issue of EU’s banana policy and its effects on the banana business of Latin America in general and Chiquita Brands International in particular. I have also analyzed the way the whole issue has been approached by the company and tried to formulate a plan that may prove successful for the company. Since the present problem is a serious
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The Philippine banana industry is one of the top agricultural export earners. The increase in demand worldwide has resulted to greater expansion of area planted to banana. As a tropical country‚ Philippines grows an abundant varirety of fruit crops primarily for local consumption and export market. Banana is considered as the most important fruit crop in the country in terms of volume production and export earnings. Philippines ranks second to Ecuador as the top banana-exporting country in the world
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You’ll never look at a banana the same way again after discovering the many health benefits and reasons to add them to your diet. Bananas combat depression‚ make you smarter‚ cure hangovers‚ relieve morning sickness‚ protect against kidney cancer‚ diabetes‚ osteoporosis and blindness. They can cure the itch of a mosquito bite and put a great shine on your shoes. If you think bananas are just for monkeys‚ think again. 1. Bananas help overcome depression due high levels of tryptophan‚ which
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Week 11 Theme: Health What Are the Benefits of Eating Banana Peels? Bananas have been a highly cultivated fruit for thousands of years. Many species of primate consume the entire banana‚ peel and all‚ which may have led indigenous peoples to follow suit. Although not common practice in the West‚ peoples of Asian countries eat banana peels‚ but they are usually cooked in some capacity. They are not nearly as sweet as the flesh‚ but they are rich in some nutrients‚ especially potassium‚ and
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such as medical application‚ daily groceries carrying. Within the banana supply chain‚ plastic bags are utilized since the very in many stages for example at the packaging station‚ the bananas will be packed into cardboard boxes with an inlay of a plastic bag or at the wholesalers‚ three to five bananas will be wrapped in one plastic bag and the customer at the retailers will buy all those amounts. It is all known that after bananas are consumed‚ plastic bags will become wasted. There are already
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Bananas are the fruit of a plant of the genus Musa‚ which are cultivated primarily for food‚ and secondarily for the production of fibers. It is alleged that there are almost 1000 varieties of bananas in the world‚ subdivided in 50 groups (Bora‚ 2007). The most generally known banana is the seedless Cavendish variety‚ which is the one produced for export markets and pronounced for consuming. The banana is the fruit of an herbaceous plant related to the orchid family and is most commonly found in
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Analysis: Litigation & Chiquita This case study deals primarily with the issue of litigation. The case study focuses especially on litigation concerned with U.S. companies being held accountable in U.S. courts for their actions and influences in foreign countries. The main company highlighted within the case study is Chiquita‚ the largest employer of banana workers in Latin America. This analysis will dive deeper into the actual issue of litigation and will focus on the Alien Tort Statute
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