About Dole

Founded in Hawaii in 1851, Dole Asia Holdings Pte. Ltd., headquartered in Singapore, is the global operating headquarters of the Dole Group of companies owned by ITOCHU Corporation. Dole is one of the world's largest producers and marketers of high-quality fresh fruit with revenues of approximately $2.5 billion. Dole produces and markets a worldwide line of packaged and frozen foods. The Company does business in more than 70 countries and employs, on average, 20,000 full-time, regular employees and 7,000 full-time seasonal or temporary employees, worldwide.

With approximately 130 bases in 65 countries, ITOCHU Corporation, one of the leading sogo shosha, is engaging in domestic trading, import/export, and overseas trading of various products such as textile, machinery, metals, minerals, energy, chemicals, food, information and communications technology, realty, general products, insurance, logistics services, construction, and finance, as well as business investment in Japan and overseas.

The Dole Worldwide Packaged Foods Division (“Dole Packaged Foods”) of Dole Asia Holdings Pte. Ltd. markets a full line of canned, jarred, cup, frozen dried fruit and snack products, and is an innovator in new forms of packaging and processing fruit.

Dole Packaged Foods operates pineapple plantations of approximately 38,000 acres in the Philippines and owns and operates over 2 million square feet of processing facilities. Two multi-fruit canneries, a blast freezer, cold storage, a juice concentrate plant, a box forming plant, a can and drum manufacturing plant, warehouses, wharf and a fresh fruit packing plant, are located at or near the Philippines pineapple plantation.

In Thailand, Dole Packaged Foods operates three tropical fruit manufacturing sites and purchases fruit from hundreds of Thai farmers. In addition, Dole Packaged Foods operates three processing plants in the United States for its frozen fruit products and farms over 1,000 acres of peaches in California.

The Dole Asia Fresh Division (“Dole Asia Fresh”) of Dole Asia Holdings Pte. Ltd. is a leader in growing, distributing, and marketing fresh fruits and vegetables throughout the Asian market. It primarily sources products from the Philippines, Japan, China and Sri Lanka, among others. Dole Asia Fresh produces bananas, pineapples and papayas on over 30,000 acres of land in the Philippines and also sources these produces through associated producers or independent growing arrangements. It markets its fresh perishable products in many countries throughout Asia and the Middle East. Dole Asia Fresh operates, directly and in partnership with others, banana ripening and cold storage distribution centers in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, The People’s Republic of China, Malaysia, the Philippines, and New Zealand.