Founded in Hawaii in 1851, Dole Food Company, Inc., with 2002 revenues of $4.4 billion, is the world's largest producer and marketer of high-quality fresh fruit, fresh vegetables and fresh-cut flowers, and markets a growing line of packaged foods. The Company does business in more than 90 countries and employs, on average, 33,000 full-time permanent employees and 24,000 full-time seasonal or temporary employees, worldwide.

http://www.dole.com/