Peter Chapman

The planned merger between Chiquita and Fyffes represents a response to modern-day conditions in the banana market and at the same time amounts to a step back into history. The banana has an increasingly tenuous grip on existence, threatened as it is by a number of diseases. It also reaches our tables having often travelled huge distances from tropical plantations as part of a formidable logistical exercise carried out by producers, shippers and distributors. The Chiquita and Fyffes merger the…

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