Behind Chiquita Banana's swerving hips and the cartoon backdrop of tropical luxury, fruit plantations across the Americas where running with blood. In one of the most poignant scenes in Gabriel ...

Carmen Miranda, whose real name is Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha, is famous all around the world for her fruit hats, her songs ... known by the nickname of Chiquita Banana Girl.

The Chiquita Banana lady went negative. Kicking off a nationwide election for the advertising industry’s all-time greatest icon, the potassium pitchwoman yesterday vowed to run a clean campaign ...

2014 -- What does the merger of two giant banana producers--Chiquita Brands in the U.S. and Ireland's Fyffes Plc--mean for U.S. consumers and the prices that they pay for fruit? With $4.6 billion ...

which were at the time an exotic tropical fruit, says the company. At its peak, the Chiquita banana jingle — which included lyrics such as "you should never put bananas in the refrigerator ...

Chiquita Brands International, the banana and produce firm whose trademark blue stickers have been ubiquitous in American kitchens for decades, is being sold to two Brazilian companies in a deal ...