Sourcing Great Ingredients: Chiquita

Range of Products:

Purees, juices, IQF and dried:
Banana
Pineapple
Mango
Passion Fruit
Papaya

Packaging:
Aseptic bag-in-bin
Aseptic bag-in-box
Aseptic drum
Frozen drum
Frozen box

Chiquita is the world's largest tropical processed fruit supplier and has been operating for well over 100 years. Renowned for supplying high quality bananas, through its work with Cobell Chiquita also offers pineapple, mango, passion fruit and papaya.

With three factories in Costa Rica, Honduras and Ecuador, Chiquita's location and group offers a level of security and flexibility of supply that is unrivalled. With options to have products shipped direct from origin or from its extensive stocks, customer's needs are at the forefront of its expansive operation. Plus, all of Chiquita's factories are approved by the SGF, AIB and the company is currently undertaking BRC accreditation (Mundimar site already has BRC accreditation) in support of the UK market.

As a leading force in the protection of the environment and social responsibility which is certified through the Rain Forest Allliance, Chiquita is involved with many environmental projects including the Better Banana Project, recycling, reforestation, worker safety, wild life studies and much more.

With a workforce of over 26,000 full-time employees, 21,500 are based in Latin America, where Chiquita has a long tradition of building schools, hospitals, ports, railroads and power plants.