Dole Food Company, Inc. engages in sourcing, growing, processing, marketing, and distributing fresh fruits and vegetables to wholesale, retail, and institutional customers; and other food product companies. It operates in two segments, Fresh Fruit and Fresh Vegetables. The Fresh Fruit segment is involved in growing and selling bananas under the DOLE brand in North America and Europe; ripening and distributing DOLE and non-DOLE branded fresh produce, including bananas and pineapples in Europe; growing, sourcing, and selling fresh pineapples; and exporting deciduous fruits, including grapes, apples, pears, stone fruits, and kiwifruits from Chile and South Africa primarily to North America, Latin America, and Europe. The Fresh Vegetables segment sources, harvests, cools, distributes, and markets various fresh and fresh-cut vegetables, including iceberg lettuce, red and green leaf lettuce, romaine lettuce, butter lettuce, celery, cauliflower, broccoli, carrots, brussels sprouts, green onions, asparagus, snow peas, artichokes, and radishes primarily in North America; and blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, and strawberries in North and Latin America. This segment also processes and markets value-added vegetable products, such as packaged salads and packaged fresh-cut vegetables. Its principal customers include mass merchandisers and supermarkets. Dole Food Company, Inc. was founded in 1851 and is based in Westlake Village, California.

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