Fyffes
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| legal form | Public limited company |
| ISIN | IE0003295239 |
| founding | 1888 |
| Seat |
Dublin , Ireland
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| Number of employees | 2,730 |
| sales | EUR 1,091 million (2014) |
| Branch | Fruit trade |
| Website | www.fyffes.com |
Fyffes is an Irish company based in Dublin . It is one of the largest fruit traders in the world and also one of the largest fruit importers and distributors in Europe, and is the European market leader in the banana segment. Mainly bananas, pineapples, melons and mushrooms are traded.
As of spring 2016, the largest shareholders, each with a stake of over 10%, were:
- InterTech (American investment trust of the family of Anita Zucker, ex-Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company )
- Balkan Investment Company (David McCann's family investment vehicle)
- Fidelity International
In March 2014, a planned merger with the US company Chiquita Brands International became known. A consortium consisting of the Brazilian fruit company Cutrale and the also Brazilian financial company Grupo Safra of Joseph Safra then submitted a counter-bid. Chiquita agreed to this in October 2014, so the merger with Fyffes did not materialize. At the end of 2016, Fyffes agreed on a full takeover by Sumitomo Corporation , Japan's largest banana importer, for 751 million euros.
Together with Gemüsering Stuttgart, Fyffes runs the Fruchtimport vanWylick joint venture , which mainly imports bananas.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Fyffes PLC: Our Story. Retrieved January 7, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Annual Report and Accounts for year ended 2014 ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), www.fyffes.com, accessed on January 7, 2016. PDF, 1.4 MB.
- ↑ BBC: Fyffes and Chiquita to create biggest banana firm (English)
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Chiquita and Fyffes merge to become the largest banana trader. Retrieved March 14, 2014 .
- ^ Takeover battle for Chiquita and Fyffes - Wirtschaft - Süddeutsche.de, August 12, 2014
- ↑ Japanese giant Sumitomo to buy Fyffes for € 751m
- ↑ Van Wylick becomes a joint venture , www.juve.de, March 8, 2011, accessed May 18, 2014.
