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Home > Company Index > Food, Beverage & Tobacco > Food Wholesale - to Grocers > Fyffes plc

Fyffes plc
 PROFILE
Fyffes encourages folks to go bananas. The company is Europe's leading importer and distributor of fruits and vegetables. Fyffes is best known for bananas, which account for about 30% of sales. (It was the first to brand bananas, using its "Blue Label.") It supplies European food retailers and distributes flowers and plants. Fyffes imports bananas from more than 10 countries and has a 50% stake in Capespan International Holdings, the European supplier of the Cape and Outspan labels. Fyffes' worldoffruit.com Web site provides online trading and other services to the produce industry. The family of Charles McCann (who founded the company in the late 1890s) owns about 10% of Fyffes.

 COMPETITION
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 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
Fiscal Year-End: December
2000 Sales (mil.): 1,750.70
1-Yr. Sales Growth: (2.2)%
Employees: 2,573
Revenue per employee: $680,411.97

 KEY PEOPLE
• David V. McCann
    CEO
• John Frank Gernon
    CFO

 CONTACT INFO
1 Beresford St.
Dublin 7, Ireland
Phone: 353-1-809-5555
Fax: 353-42-932-8993
Online: Web Site

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