Dole Investment And Legal Milestones Events

Castle & Cooke was started in 1851 by two former mission secular agents, Samuel Northrup Castle and Amos Starr Cooke. They had both arrived in the Islands in 1837 as part of the Eighth Co...

Castle & Cooke enter the food business with their first investment in Hawaii's sugar industry. The Haiku Sugar Company, is the first sugar enterprise in Hawaii to raise capital through st...

The Castle & Cooke partnership was incorporated and Joe Atherton was elected president. At this time the company was just coming out of a financial slump caused by its 1889 investment in ...

James Dole purchases the Island of Lana'i.

Castle & Cooke enters the tuna packing business by purchasing 41% of the stock and a few years later 97% of the stock of Hawaiian Tuna Packers.

Castle & Cooke exchanges ownership in Hawaiian Tuna Packers for 12% interest in Columbia River Packers Association, producers of Bumble Bee® Seafood.

Dole and Columbia River Packers merge with Castle & Cooke. Because the DOLE® brand was so well known and signified high quality with consumers, Dole products retain their name and CRPA be...

David H. Murdock completes acquisition of Dole. Dole is delisted from the New York Stock Exchange.

Dole Food Company has announced the completion of Dole's purchase from Jamaica Producers Group Ltd. of the 65 percent of JP Fruit Distributors (JPD) that Dole does not already own for $41...