51-523: San Juan Pueblo may refer to San Juan Pueblo (Honduras) , village near La Ceiba , Honduras San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico , former name of Ohkay Owingeh, a pueblo in New Mexico, until it changed name in 2005 San Juan Pueblo Airport , former name of Ohkay Owingeh Airport, until its name change in 2008 Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
102-423: A SafetyChain system , which is a cellphone-based process for quality assurance on the farm (region, grower, and lot number), including immediate reports on non-compliance issues. Over decades, Dole has initiated several recalls of its products and shut down manufacturing facilities for cleaning in response to outbreaks of foodborne illnesses , primarily related to bagged salads and leafy greens. Officials with
153-404: A brand licensing arrangement with The Walt Disney Company for fruits and vegetables branded with Disney, Pixar , Marvel , and Star Wars fictional characters to encourage produce consumption among children, such as using stickers on bananas. The arrangement includes cobranded recipes featuring Disney films , including Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Frozen II . The Dole brand
204-595: A 13-vessel shipping line for importing its produce and exporting third-party goods to Latin America . The multinational company PepsiCo sells bottled fruit beverages under license using the Dole brand. Dole has a comarketing agreement with The Walt Disney Company to encourage the public, including children, to consume fruits and vegetables. Dole plc traces its origins to the foundation of Castle & Cooke in 1851, and Charles McCann's Fish, Fruit and Vegetable Market in
255-475: A US-accredited High School diploma as well. These schools usually offer grades 1 – 11/12, with some offering pre-school education. The first university in the city was the Centro Universitario Regional del Litoral Atlántico (often called CURLA). It is a Public university run by the larger Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras ( UNAH ). The first private university to open in the city
306-506: A court in Managua , Nicaragua , to pay banana workers $ 489.4 million in 2003, but the companies declined to pay the fine. In 2007, a California judge awarded $ 2.3 million to Nicaraguan banana workers who sued Dole for its DBCP use. However, the ruling was overturned in 2010, with another judge noting a lack of evidence connecting the workers to Dole plantations and fraud committed by the plaintiffs' lawyers. Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten made
357-415: A documentary about the latter lawsuit, entitled Bananas!* , which led to a defamation lawsuit by Dole. Dole lost the suit and was ordered to pay the filmmakers SEK 1,400,000. Gertten made a follow-up documentary about the defamation suit that premiered in 2012, entitled Big Boys Gone Bananas!* . Total Produce was spun off from Fyffes in 2006 as a fresh fruit and vegetable business separate from
408-592: A headquarters in La Ceiba , Honduras , purchasing housing and cargo ships, and building rail and telephone lines at its plantations. The company's rapid growth has been attributed to the destruction of property records in the early 20th century, leading the firm to take control of large swaths of land with the support of the Honduran government. In 1924, the firm went public as the Standard Fruit and Steamship Company. In
459-554: Is a municipality, the capital of the Honduran department of Atlántida and a port city on the northern coast of Honduras in Central America. It is located on the southern edge of the Caribbean , forming part of the south eastern boundary of the Gulf of Honduras . With an estimated population of 209,000 living in approximately 170 residential areas (called colonias or barrios ), it is
510-691: Is a vertically integrated producer, owning plantations in Central America . Its container ships are specially equipped with refrigerated containers , and use their own cranes instead of relying on port infrastructure. As of 2021, Rory Byrne is CEO, Carl McCann is chairman, and Johan Lindén is chief operating officer. Following the 2021 merger with Total Produce, Dole plc has world headquarters in Dublin , Ireland and US headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina . The Guinness Book of World Records (2007) lists
561-400: Is about 3,200 millimetres (130 in), making it one of the wettest cities in Central America, second only to Colón, Panama among urbanised areas with more than 100,000 people. Among Honduran cities, La Ceiba is the second most important port town after Puerto Cortés . Its economy is made up of mostly commerce and agriculture. Pineapple is the city's major export. Its largest producer is
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#1732858510316612-550: Is also under license with Pepsico for bottled fruit beverages. As Dole products include fruits and vegetables grown in open fields, Dole uses rigorous food safety procedures under Good Agricultural Practices for its own farms and those of contract growers. In California , Dole is a certified member of the Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement (LGMA), a collaboration of food scientists and safety experts, government, farmers, shippers, and processors. Dole operates
663-486: Is the week leading up to the internationally renowned " Gran Carnaval Internacional de La Ceiba " which is a citywide celebration in honour of the city's patron saint , St. Isidore (San Isidro). During the week leading up to the third Saturday in May, many neighborhoods have smaller celebrations in one or a couple of their streets. On Saturday afternoon the big parade with elaborate floats takes place along Avenida San Isidro,
714-618: The Minnesota Department of Health found Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Dole bagged lettuce in 2005. The outbreak infected 25 people in Minnesota , Wisconsin , and Oregon . The following year, an E. coli outbreak that infected more than 200 people and killed three was traced back to a spinach processor in California which packaged spinach under the Dole brand. Dole initiated a recall of
765-614: The Standard Fruit Company , a subsidiary of the Dole Food Company , which operates throughout northern Honduras and is based in La Ceiba. Tourism also plays a large role in the city's economy (see below). Since its development in the late 20th century, the La Ceiba seaport has played an ever-increasing role in the economy of the city. This port represents a vital economic artery to La Ceiba's growing tourist industry. Additionally,
816-654: The United States Food and Drug Administration at a plant in Springfield , Ohio . In 2016, an outbreak of listeriosis tied to the Springfield plant led to the hospitalization of 33 people and four deaths. The plant closed for four months that year, and later reporting revealed Dole knew about the listeria contamination in July 2014, more than a year before the plant's closure. The United States Department of Justice initiated
867-547: The 1850s in Ireland. Castle & Cooke, a sugar and logistics company, was founded in Hawaii by Amos Starr Cooke and Samuel Northrup Castle . In 1899, industrialist James Dole moved to Hawaii. James was the cousin of Sanford B. Dole , who had helped overthrow the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1893, and became the governor of Hawaii in 1898. Two years after James Dole's arrival, he formed
918-618: The 1920s, as Panama disease was destroying crops of the Gros Michel banana , Standard Fruit began looking for other cultivars to grow, settling on the Cavendish banana . Switching to the Cavendish allowed Standard Fruit to become the largest banana producer in the world by the 1960s. Standard Fruit merged with Castle & Cooke in 1968. While these companies were forming in the United States,
969-471: The Hawaiian Pineapple Company (HPC). The HPC delivered its first shipment of canned pineapple in 1903. Early products of the Hawaiian Pineapple Company were not marketed under a particular brand name, often assuming the names of the distributors. In the early 20th century, pineapple was still relatively unknown, and James Dole and other growers mounted a marketing campaign in magazines in what
1020-466: The La Ceiba sea port is home to one of the finest boatyards in the north west Caribbean (According to Western Caribbean Cruising Guidebook ). Known as the La Ceiba Shipyard, this company offers a complete group of marine services for all types of seagoing vessels. La Ceiba is home to many public schools . Among the largest is Escuela Francisco Morazán along Avenida San Isidro, which is considered
1071-527: The Laborer (Spanish San Isidro Labrador ). During this time, the city is host to approximately 500,000 tourists. In 1872 Manuel Hernández built a small shack under the Ceiba tree that grew near the old docks. Over time, more and more people from present-day Honduras (especially the departments of Olancho and Santa Barbara ), and from around the world settled in La Ceiba. Workers were attracted to jobs associated with
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#17328585103161122-574: The McCanns expanded their operations in Ireland, opening a store in Dundalk in 1902. In the 1950s, the McCanns began consolidating with other companies in Ireland, creating United Fruit Importers and then Fruit Importers of Ireland, which became a publicly traded company. Ten years after its merger with Standard Fruit, Castle & Cooke acquired Bud Antle Inc., a California -based vegetable company. However, Castle & Cooke began to struggle financially and
1173-753: The Philippines and Thailand . While the HPC was getting established, the tropical fruit trade was growing in Central and South America , primarily with the banana trade. One of the major players in that trade, the Standard Fruit and Steamship Company, was established in 1906 by the Vaccaro brothers and Salvador D'Antoni as Vaccaro Brothers and Company. However, the quartet had been making shipments of tropical fruit such as bananas and coconuts , as well as other items, since 1899. The firm grew rapidly in its early years, establishing
1224-457: The banana industry, which became important to the regional economy. In the late 19th century, the banana business caught the attention of big North American banana companies, such as the Vaccaro Brothers' Standard Fruit Company from New Orleans . This new economic activity attracted national and international immigrantworkers to La Ceiba. The current neighbourhood known as Barrio Inglés was
1275-409: The banana plantations. This company was largely responsible for the early growth of the city. La Ceiba was declared a municipality on 23 August 1877. At that time Marco Aurelio Soto was President of Honduras. La Ceiba was the centre of banana and pineapple business, the basis of its economy. Other companies developed in the city, such as: The first municipal building or city hall was located in
1326-425: The city's main thoroughfare . After the parade, the locals and tourists all have a celebration along that same road, where stands sell food, beer, drinks , and souvenirs . There were trains running through La Ceiba to bring the bananas from the plantations but they are not active any longer although traces of the old railroad tracks can still be seen. Buses and taxis make up most of the public transportation in
1377-483: The city, with numerous buses serving almost every available route in the city. Taxi-cabs are numerous in the city, costing as little as L.30.00 (just over $ 1.20 as of 2023) for destinations within sectors of the city limits. From one sector to the next, the cost is an additional 10 Lempira ($ .40) The pier to the east of the city offers transportation via ferry to 2 of the 3 major islands that make up Islas de la Bahia; Roatan and Utila. The Golosón International Airport to
1428-490: The city. They were burned again during unrest in 1924. Soon after this, the office building was constructed at its current location, on land donated by Manuel Mejía . La Ceiba features a trade-wind tropical rainforest climate ( Köppen Af ), with substantial rainfall throughout the course of the year. Due to its northerly aspect, there is a peak between October and February when the trade winds are strongest and extreme orographic rainfalls occur. The average annual rainfall
1479-823: The company during the Itochu deal, and in 2015, a judge in Delaware ordered the pair to pay shareholders $ 148 million for intentionally lowering the value of Dole stock prior to the buyout. Total Produce purchased a 45% stake in the Dole Food Company in 2018, and merged with Dole in 2021 to form Dole plc. Dole plc ( NYSE : DOLE ) began trading on the New York Stock Exchange in July 2021. Covering five continents, Dole has 109,000 acres (44,000 ha) of its own farmland, 13 cargo vessels, five manufacturing plants , 75 packing houses and 160 distribution centers. Dole
1530-506: The company grew more than 75% of all pineapples in the world. However, the Hawaiian Pineapple Company struggled to stay financially sound during the Great Depression and Castle & Cooke took control of it in 1932. The HPC was renamed the "Dole Company" and became a subsidiary of Castle & Cooke in 1961. Two years later, the company began expanding its fruit growing operations into southeast Asia, opening plantations and canneries in
1581-769: The company had approximately 250 processing plants and distribution centers worldwide in addition to 109,000 acres (44,000 ha) of farmland and real estate. The company operates through four segments: Fresh Fruit (bananas and pineapples; about 35% of 2020 revenues); Diversified Fresh Produce in Europe , the Middle East , and Africa ; Diversified Fresh Produce in the Americas and other world regions (combined 37% of 2020 revenues); and Fresh Vegetables (29% of 2020 revenues). Dole grows and markets bananas, pineapples, grapes, berries, deciduous and citrus fruits, and vegetable salads. Dole operates
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1632-457: The company had bankrolled militias that killed thousands of Colombians, including trade union organizers. The suit was dismissed with prejudice the following year. Murdock took Dole public again in 2009, raising $ 446 million in the process. In 2012, Dole reached a deal to sell its packaged food division and Asian fresh produce operations to the Japanese firm Itochu for $ 1.7 billion, with
1683-411: The company now refers to as one of the first nationwide advertising campaigns in the United States. In 1927, the HPC began stamping its cans with the Dole brand name, with numbers to indicate the grade . These stamps ensured the Dole name would still be visible even if the label was changed by a distributor. The company made technological advances in the early decades of the 20th century in processing
1734-416: The corner of 2da Calle and Avenida Atlántida, at the site of the present-day Ferretería Kawas warehouse. The building was made of wood and in 1903 it was burnt down due to vandalism . Some people wanted to destroy private property ownership records in La Ceiba. The municipal building was set on fire again on 7 March 1914 during more social unrest. The Municipal Corporation moved the offices further south of
1785-483: The eastern edge of the city and the Cuero and Salado Wildlife refuges with its wild manatees is located a few miles to the west of the city. Semana Santa ( Holy Week ) is one of the city's busiest tourist seasons . During this week tourists from all over the country flock to the city to enjoy its sun, beach, and very active night life during that week during Carnaval before Ash Wednesday. The busiest tourist season by far
1836-411: The first recognised neighbourhood in the city. It was so named after the many English-speaking people living in the barrio. At that point the main thoroughfare of La Ceiba was present-day Avenida La Republica, where the train tracks were laid. The rail line was built by the Standard Fruit Company (now Standard Fruit de Honduras, a Dole subsidiary) for transport of its commodity to ships at the port from
1887-442: The fourth most populous and third most important city in the country. La Ceiba was officially founded on 23 August 1877. The city was named after a giant ceiba tree that grew near the old dock. The city has been officially proclaimed the "Eco-Tourism Capital of Honduras," as well as the "Entertainment Capital of Honduras". Every year, on the third or fourth Saturday of May, the city holds its famous carnival to commemorate Isidore
1938-510: The fruit—most notably the Ginaca Machine , created in 1911—that made canning pineapple commercially viable. In 1922, Dole purchased the Hawaiian island Lanai and turned it into the largest pineapple plantation in the world. The same year, Castle & Cooke acquired 33% of the company via lease agreement. In 1927, the HPC began stamping its cans with the "Dole" brand. By the end of the 1920s,
1989-399: The latter into a real estate development company. In the early 2000s, Dole struggled financially and was nearly bankrupt. Murdock rescued the company, which had been publicly traded, and took it private in 2003. During this same period, lawsuits related to the use of the pesticide DBCP were filed against Dole. The company, along with Shell and Dow Chemical Company , was ordered by
2040-518: The main islands of Útila and Roatán . The area around La Ceiba has many parks and natural reserves. Its most recognised natural area is the Pico Bonito (Beautiful Peak) National park . This park's most recognised feature, Pico Bonito on the Nombre de Dios mountain range , is 2435 meters high and provides a back drop for the city. The Cangrejal River , popular for its Class III-IV river rafting, borders
2091-400: The main street of the city. Instituto Manuel Bonilla is the largest public High School in the city, with over 5,000 registered students. There are also many private schools in La Ceiba. Several private bilingual education schools offer instruction in both Spanish and English. Most of these offer a Honduran Bachillerato Diploma (equivalent of High school diploma ), while Mazapan School offers
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2142-512: The pineapple maze at the Dole Plantation on Oahu, Hawaii as the world's largest maze . Bobby Banana , a mascot of Dole plc, is an anthropomorphic banana who appears in Dole comics and games for children. Including pineapples , Dole products include some 300 fresh plant foods as whole deciduous and citrus fruits , berries , and fresh-cut vegetables; salad products include greens, salad kits, and shreds. As of 2022, Dole has
2193-565: The purchase concluding in April 2013. As part of the Itochu deal, the Dole brand continued to be used for some packaged food products worldwide and fresh produce in Asia, Australia and New Zealand, although the Dole Food Company had no business involvement for these products. In August 2013, Murdock reacquired Dole as a private company at a valuation of $ 1.6 billion. He and Dole Food Company President Michael Carter were later sued by investors for undervaluing
2244-774: The tainted spinach. According to Dole personnel and the California LGMA, this 2006 E. coli outbreak led to harmonizing new rigorous farm and handling practices across the fresh produce industry to minimize microbial contamination. Dole recalled its "Seven Lettuces" salads in 2012 after random testing by New York health officials found salmonella in the salads. The same year, the company issued two recalls of its bagged salads due to contamination by Listeria monocytogenes . The company initiated another recall due to contamination by L. monocytogenes in 2014. The following year, Dole recalled bagged spinach due to contamination with salmonella following safety testing conducted by
2295-558: The title San Juan Pueblo . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=San_Juan_Pueblo&oldid=708761979 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages La Ceiba La Ceiba ( Spanish pronunciation: [la ˈsejβa] )
2346-627: The tropical fruits business of Fyffes. Upon establishment, the firm was one of the largest produce companies in Europe, leading in Ireland, Spain , Sweden , Denmark , and the Czech Republic . In 2007, Total Produce expanded further into the United Kingdom , purchasing British firm Redbridge Holdings for £11.75 million. In 2009, Dole was sued by families of banana workers in Colombia , who alleged that
2397-508: The two rival clubs are known as Clásico Ceibeño . Dole Food Company Dole plc (previously named Dole Food Company and Standard Fruit Company ) is an Irish - American agricultural multinational corporation headquartered in Dublin , Ireland. The company is among the world's largest producers of fruit and vegetables, operating with 38,500 full-time and seasonal employees who supply some 300 products in 75 countries. Dole reported 2021 revenues of $ 6.5 billion. As of 2021,
2448-700: The west of town offers flights to the other major cities in the country as well as other towns in the Mosquitia Region of Honduras in the east. This airport is hub to Aerolíneas Sosa . There is also a bus station just west of the city centre though some buses also run from their own terminals. La Ceiba is the home of two clubs of the top division of the Honduran National Professional Football League , Vida and Victoria . Both play in Nilmo Edwards Stadium . The matches between
2499-622: Was Universidad Tecnológica de Honduras(UTH), which opened in 1995. At the time the college offered only night classes, using the classrooms in a local private high school. In 2002 the college built its own campus. 2002 also marked the opening of the Universidad Católica de Honduras , run by the Catholic church . Additionally, development of a new campus in La Ceiba for the Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana – UNITEC
2550-529: Was begun in 2008. La Ceiba has long been known as the tourism capital of Honduras, due to its proximity to the beach, active night life , and a variety of parks and recreational areas in and around the city. Another factor contributing to the city's tourism is the city port. It provides ferry services to the Bay Islands/ Islas de la Bahia in the Caribbean. Ferries from this port also offer daily service to
2601-550: Was purchased in 1985 by billionaire David H. Murdock . After the purchase, Dole began expanding its offerings by purchasing other food companies, buying several West Coast fruit and nut producers and distributors between 1985 and 1990, including Bonner Packing Company in California and Wells and Wade Fruit Company in Washington . Meanwhile, in Ireland, Fruit Importers of Ireland purchased Fyffes from Chiquita in 1986. Murdock separated Dole and Castle & Cooke in 1996, turning
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