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...Although he sealed some high-profile deals, such as the £726mn purchase of London’s “Gherkin” office building in 2014 and a half-share in banana grower Chiquita the same year, Joseph did not court publicity...
...AVIC also did not respond to emailed questions....
...“Joseph Safra was also an example as an entrepreneur and a philanthropist.”...
...It also received donations from celebrities such as the band Coldplay. But after several journalistic exposés, it fell into liquidation in 2015....
...López Obrador has also picked a fight with women’s groups by refusing to criticise the choice of Félix Salgado Macedonio, an alleged serial rapist, as his ruling Morena party’s candidate for a state governor...
...Fyffes, best known for its banana business, also produces and distributes pineapples, melons and mushrooms....
...Police also raided the office of another fixture of the Brazilian corporate world, steelmaker Gerdau, in February, also in a tax-related investigation....
...Buying widely recognised consumer brand adds further appeal for Cutrale, which is presently known to wholesalers only as an orange juice supplier to companies such as Coca-Cola....
...Buying its own consumer brand adds further appeal for Cutrale, which is currently only known to wholesalers as a supplier to brands such as Coca-Cola. The US company also comes relatively cheap....
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...People close to Mr Safra say his Chiquita deal emerged partly because of his friendship with the Cutrales but also because of the diversification being brought to the group as his sons take a more active...
...Shares in Chiquita Brands, a US food producer best known for its bananas, surged on Monday after the company received a $13-a-share offer from Cutrale, a US farmer of oranges, apples and lemons, and Safra...
...He has also funded the building of a luxurious synagogue in São Paulo and donated Rodin sculptures to one of the city’s public art galleries....
...Diseases such as Black Sigatoka and Panama Disease have long attacked the banana and have lately been joined by another deadly strain of Panama disease known as Tropical Race 4, with some experts going as...
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...Dublin-based Fyffes – which oversaw the first commercial delivery of bananas to London in the 1880s and, like Chiquita, is known for its blue sticky labels – is Europe’s number one distributor with a market...
...Some of the larger retail groups are also buying their bananas direct from producers, further damaging the revenues of distributors such as Chiquita and Fyffes....
...Crucially, though, the US company did not use the transaction to re-establish its headquarters in Europe and save billions of dollars in US tax, a strategy known as a tax inversion....
...He also spent this summer trying to keep a bid by Lazard’s client Fyffes, the Irish fruit company, for Chiquita, a US rival, on track....
...both also managed a small profit....
...A Spool of Blue Thread, by Anne Tyler, Chatto & Windus, RRP£18.99/Knopf, RRP$25.95 Tyler returns to her usual Baltimore milieu for her 20th novel, another insightful study of family life....
...The payments even continued after 2001, the year that the US State Department declared the AUC, as the paramilitary groups’ umbrella outfit was known, a terrorist organisation....
...Today, this provincial Colombian capital is no longer known as “Santa Muerto”, or Saint Death – a double-edged nickname denoting the economic slumber it fell into after the United Fruit Company took its...
...Ninagawa’s better-known career as a fashion/advertising photographer should prepare you for this visual delirium: a sequence of tableaux coloured like stained glass, costumed like Fellini outtakes and narrating...
...In Central America, it was commonly known as el pulpo (the octopus) - its tentacles everywhere. In the US, United Fruit’s territories were seen as troubled and forbidding....
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