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Hi editors, my name is William and I work for Dole plc. I'm hoping to make some updates to the article and wanted to start by updating the Key people in the infobox, as that is a bit outdated since our merger with Total Produce. Dole's CEO is Rory Byrne, its executive chairman is Carl McCann, and its COO is Johan Linden. That's covered in this article. I also made a citation [1] to ease things along. Is it possible for someone to make that update? I won't make any changes myself due to my conflict of interest. Thanks in advance for your consideration. 14:15, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
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WG at Dole ( talk) 14:15, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
Done - please check this edit for accuracy and current status. Is there any WP:RS source giving the corporate involvement (if still applicable) and life status of David Murdock? Zefr ( talk) 17:39, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
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Hello editors. I'm William and I work for Dole. I was hoping to update the logo in the infobox to the most recent one. I believe I have uploaded everything correctly. The file name is File:Dole Foods Logo Green Leaf with Shadow 2018.png. Please let me know if you have any questions. I won't make this change myself due to my conflict of interest. @ Zefr:, you've been so helpful in reviewing my requests, would you consider taking a look at this as well? I'd really appreciate it. WG at Dole ( talk) 17:40, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
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Hello editors, I've got another request to make of the article as I hope to keep proposing updates and improvements to it. I've noticed on other company articles that many of them have Company overview sections that provide basic operational details near the top of the article. I know this article currently has an Operations section (and thank you @ Zefr: for your help in updating the leadership there!), but I was wondering what editors thought about replacing that with a Company overview section and moving it up in the article?
I noticed the current section also has some unsourced content, so I tried to make updates to it and shrink it down a bit (and found this cool "collapse" thing!).
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I think the revised lede today covers the general article content, and the infobox is sufficient for details that are probably not useful to the general user. See WP:LEAD. There are a few inconsistencies of details between the non-Dole sources and About from the corporate website dated 2022. Without specific checking, I sense some of the sources could be consolidated, so will refer to WG at Dole to guide on how these can be represented. Zefr ( talk) 00:03, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
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Dole plc (previously named Dole Food Company, Standard Fruit Company) is an Irish agricultural multinational corporation headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. The company is among the world's largest producers of fruit and vegetables, operating with 38,500 full-time and seasonal employees who supply more than 300 products in 75 countries. Dole reported 2021 revenues of $6.5 billion. [1] As of 2021, the company had approximately 250 processing plants and distribution centers worldwide in addition to 109,000 acres (44,000 ha) of farmland and real estate. The company operates through four segments: Fresh Fruit (bananas and pineapples; about 35% of 2020 revenues); Diversified Fresh Produce in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; Diversified Fresh Produce in the Americas and other world regions (combined 37% of 2020 revenues); and Fresh Vegetables (29% of 2020 revenues). Dole grows and markets bananas, pineapples, grapes, berries, deciduous and citrus fruits, and vegetable salads. Dole operates 13 cargo vessels for importing its produce and exporting third-party goods to Latin America. [1] [2] [3] References
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Dole plc is the largest producer of fresh fruits and vegetables in the world. [1] As of 2021, the company had approximately 250 processing plants and distribution centres worldwide in addition to 114,000 acres (46,000 ha) of farmland and real estate. That year, Dole employed approximately 38,500 people globally and reported revenues of $6.454 billion. [2] After the merger of Total Produce and the Dole Food Company in 2021, Rory Byrne serves as chief executive officer, Carl McCann serves as executive chairman, and Johan Lindén serves as chief operating officer. The company's global headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland, and it maintains a headquarters for the Americas in Charlotte, North Carolina. [3] [1] In addition to its fruit and vegetable divisions, Dole owns a fleet of 13 cargo ships through its logistics division, Dole Ocean Cargo Express. [4] [2]
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I think that this proposed paragraph improves the sourcing for that section and helps make the article more accurate by using the most up to date information I could find. I've also got some updates I'd like to propose to the infobox, and the changes here will support making those changes later. Please let me know what you think about adding something like what I've proposed to the article. If any editors are interested in what I hope to achieve with the article, I made a draft, which can be found here.
I want to make sure that I follow all the rules so I won't make any changes myself due to my conflict of interest. Thanks in advance for your consideration! WG at Dole ( talk) 20:31, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
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Hello editors, I've got another request to make, this time for the History section. I understand that Dole has a complex history, but I believe in my draft, which can be found here, I have captured the nuance of that history and added some important missing information since the merger with Total Produce.
Because the History section is so long in my draft, I'll make my requests in smaller chunks that are hopefully a bit easier to digest.
In general, my thoughts are to organize the section by major milestone periods, essentially "Early history," "Growth" and "Modern day," though I know that Wikipedia likes to see a bit more specificity, so I've added years to the section headers.
All that in mind, I'd like to propose the creation of a new subsection in the History section that details how Dole traces its early history, something like this:
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Dole plc traces its origins to the foundation of Castle & Cooke in 1851, and Charles McCann's Fish, Fruit and Vegetable Market in the 1850s in Ireland. [1] [2] Castle & Cooke, a sugar and logistics company, was founded in Hawaii by Amos Starr Cooke and Samuel Northrup Castle. [3] References
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Please let me know what you think! @ Zefr:, you've been so kind in reviewing my past requests, would you consider reviewing this one as well? I'd really appreciate it! WG at Dole ( talk) 22:51, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
The food safety section is mostly out of date with prior contamination outbreaks any fresh food company would face, and with no balance of positive measures required by the USDA, FDA, and industry quality assurance associations, such as in California where Dole produce is grown. Independent QA sources will be needed to support a more balanced presentation of food safety. Zefr ( talk) 19:24, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
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Hi editors, as Zefr noted, the Food safety section is a bit dated and imbalanced. I drafted a new version of the section that condenses the content, removes some things that use low-quality sourcing (I believe the general rule of thumb is to use the green sources on the reliable sources list for potentially controversial content, right?), and mentions some of the proactive steps Dole took in response to potential outbreaks. I'll post that below.
I spent a significant amount of time searching for content about the food safety steps taken in those green sources, but unfortunately came up with very little. The best thing I have other than some passing mentions of voluntary recalls, which I included in the draft section below, about Dole's efforts to improve food safety internally come from the company's Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability report. The planned efforts are on page 35 and include a strengthening of hygiene standards and use of blockchain product tagging to track potentially problematic produce. Sorry I don't have much that is better than that! I am trying to be extra mindful of my COI, so I am really focusing on those green sources in the reliable sources listand have not included that content. I'll defer to other editors on it.
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Products Dole plc makes or grows more than 300 products, including pineapple, bananas, [1] berries, [2] citrus fruits, [3] fresh vegetables, [1] lettuce, and packaged salads. [4] Food safety Dole has initiated several recalls of its products and shut down manufacturing facilities for cleaning in response to outbreaks of foodborne illness, primarily related to bagged salads and leafy greens. 2000s Officials with the Minnesota Department of Health found Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Dole bagged lettuce in 2005. The outbreak infected 25 people in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Oregon. [5] The following year, an E. coli outbreak that infected more than 200 people and killed three was traced back to a spinach processor in California which packaged spinach under the Dole brand. [6] Dole initiated a recall of the tainted spinach. [7] In 2007, Dole voluntarily recalled more than 5,000 bags of its "Hearts Delight" salad mix after an inspection by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency found it had been contaminated with E. coli. No illnesses were reported from the contamination. [8] 2010s Dole recalled its "Seven Lettuces" salads in 2012 after random testing by New York health officials found salmonella in the salads. [9] The same year, the company issued two recalls of its bagged salads due to contamination by Listeria monocytogenes. [10] The company initiated another recall due to contamination by L. monocytogenes in 2014. [11] The following year, Dole recalled bagged spinach due to contamination with salmonella following safety testing conducted by the United States Food and Drug Administration at a plant in Springfield, Ohio. [12] In 2016, an outbreak of listeriosis tied to the Springfield plant led to the hospitalization of 33 people and four deaths. The plant closed for four months that year, and later reporting revealed Dole knew about the listeria contamination in July 2014, more than a year before the plant's closure. The United States Department of Justice initiated a criminal probe into the issue. [13] Dole settled two civil lawsuits related to the outbreak in 2017. [14] 2020s In December 2021, Dole recalled 180 varieties of packaged salad due to possible listeria contamination and closed packaging facilities in Yuma, Arizona, and Bessemer City, North Carolina, to sanitize them. [15] The outbreak led to an investigation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after two people died and 17 became ill. [16] References
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Zefr, please let me know what you think of this new section. It brings the Products subsection down from Operations, which I think helps with balancing the headings of the sections a bit more, and adds a little content from the lead, but I'm certainly open to other ideas! It also adds a photo of some fresh-cut pineapple that I found on the Commons that is just a good photo. WG at Dole ( talk) 22:49, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
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Hello editors, I've got a bit of a tricky request here but I think it makes sense based on Wikipedia policy and general redundancy. I'd like to request the removal of the Criticism and controversies section. The essence of that section has been redistributed in the History section with Zefr's updates, and done so in a way that is more complete and uses better quality sourcing.
I believe that Wikipedia policy also supports this position. The NPOV guidelines note that "Segregation of text or other content into different regions or subsections, based solely on the apparent POV of the content itself, may result in an unencyclopedic structure," which I think has happened here. The essay on criticism in articles also notes that, "Often the best approach to incorporating negative criticism into the encyclopedia is to integrate it into the article, in a way that does not disrupt the article's flow". I believe that has been accomplished with the reworked History section.
Specific items now covered by the History section include:
That does leave a fair bit of content to cut:
I thought I'd make all the arguments at once so they can be judged together, but I'm happy to discuss each item individually if editors prefer. Please let me know what you think and I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. As always, I won't make any edits myself because of my conflict of interest. WG at Dole ( talk) 20:46, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
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Hello editors, I had another request to make of the article. Some content that has now been removed dealt with some of Dole's marketing campaigns over the years. I think some of those (and some different ones) are notable enough to warrant inclusion in this article, specifically Dole's collaboration with Georgia O'Keeffe in the early 20th century, the development of 5 A Day Adventures in the early 1990s, and Dole's collaboration with Disney, plus a small smattering of others. I have a suggestion for a Marketing section below. I've done my best to stick to only the best sources with it and tried to keep the prose as neutral as possible. Please let me know what you think!
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File:5 A Day Adventures Logo.png Early products of the Hawaiian Pineapple Company were not marketed under a particular brand name, often assuming the names of the distributors. [1]: 150 In the early 20th century, pineapple was still relatively unknown, and James Dole and other growers mounted an awareness campaign in magazines in what the company now refers to as one of the first nationwide advertising campaigns in the United States. [2] In 1927, the HPC began stamping its cans with the Dole brand name, with numbers to indicate the grade. These stamps ensured the Dole name would still be visible even if the label was changed by a distributor. [1]: 154 To further advertise its products, the HPC paid artist Georgia O'Keeffe to come to Hawaii and paint a pair of advertisements for Dole pineapple juice. [3] Following Castle & Cooke's acquisition of Standard Fruit in 1968, Standard bananas continued to be marketed under the Standard label; however, the company switched the fruit to be marketed under the Dole label in 1972. [4]: 292-293 Dole overhauled its logo in the 1980s, replacing its old red-and-white logo that featured a small pineapple crown over the "o" in Dole with a more stylized logo that changed the "o" to a sunburst. This logo first began appearing in 1984. [5] In 2018, Dole redesigned its logo again, setting sunburst logo inside a leaf shape to "(signify) natural and fresh products," according to Food Business News. [6] In an attempt to get children to eat more fruits and vegetables, Dole developed the computer game 5 A Day Adventures in 1994. The game was offered to schools at no charge and featured characters such as Bobby Banana and Barney Broccoli that educated players about fruits and vegetables. [7] By 1995, the game was in use in 14,000 schools around the United States. [8] In 2016, Dole partnered with The Walt Disney Company to market fruits and vegetables branded with Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars characters in an effort to get children to eat more produce. [9] The partnership included co-branded recipes to go along with Disney releases, including Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Frozen II. [9] [10] References
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It will look like there are some citation errors, but those citations are defined in the main article. Zefr, would you have any interest in taking a look at this request? I'd really appreciate it! WG at Dole ( talk) 21:13, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
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Hello editors, I've got another request to add content to the article. I suggest adding small sections on Dole's sustainability and philanthropy efforts. I've done my best to stick to reliable sources, and included one primary source for a basic statement of fact. I suggest something a bit like the following:
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Philanthropy Dole partnered with First Lady Michelle Obama's 2010 Let's Move! campaign to install salad bars in school cafeterias in the United States. By 2013, the partnership had created nearly 2,500 salad bars in schools around the country. [1] In 2020, Dole donated more than 2 million pounds of produce to food banks in the United States and Latin America, as well personal protective equipment to Latin American communities, during shortages caused by the coronavirus pandemic. [2] Sustainability In 2014, Dole made investments in the Port of San Diego's shore power infrastructure to reduce exhaust emissions from docked ships. Dole added five electric freight trucks to its fleet at the port in 2022, making 35% of Dole trucks electric. [3] In 2020, Dole launched "The Dole Way" initiative, which laid out food safety, philanthropic, and environmental goals for the company to achieve by 2030. [4] References
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Please let me know what you think! I will not make this edit myself due to my COI. @ Zefr: I really appreciate all the work you've done on this article and responding to my requests. Would you consider reviewing this one as well? I'd appreciate it! WG at Dole ( talk) 19:20, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
Any help on what to consider as a corporation's founding date? This page had listed the date in the infobox as June 2023, an obvious mistake. Looking through the history shows what looks like a mistaken reversion to a good-faith error, but back beyond that it seems to have said 1851 for a while. That's the founding date of Castle & Cooke, a company that would eventually buy Dole, but James Dole himself hadn't even been born at that point. Looking at archives of their page, Dole seems once to have claimed 1851 as a founding date, but now ( [1]) says the "foundations" were laid in 1851 and claims no particular date. James Dole established the Hawaiian Pineapple Company (which would later bear his name) in 1901, so that's the date I put in, but this sort of thing seems like as much philosophy as history. Three white leopards ( talk) 18:38, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
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Hi editors, my name is William and I work for Dole plc. I'm hoping to make some updates to the article and wanted to start by updating the Key people in the infobox, as that is a bit outdated since our merger with Total Produce. Dole's CEO is Rory Byrne, its executive chairman is Carl McCann, and its COO is Johan Linden. That's covered in this article. I also made a citation [1] to ease things along. Is it possible for someone to make that update? I won't make any changes myself due to my conflict of interest. Thanks in advance for your consideration. 14:15, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
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WG at Dole ( talk) 14:15, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
Done - please check this edit for accuracy and current status. Is there any WP:RS source giving the corporate involvement (if still applicable) and life status of David Murdock? Zefr ( talk) 17:39, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
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Hello editors. I'm William and I work for Dole. I was hoping to update the logo in the infobox to the most recent one. I believe I have uploaded everything correctly. The file name is File:Dole Foods Logo Green Leaf with Shadow 2018.png. Please let me know if you have any questions. I won't make this change myself due to my conflict of interest. @ Zefr:, you've been so helpful in reviewing my requests, would you consider taking a look at this as well? I'd really appreciate it. WG at Dole ( talk) 17:40, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
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Hello editors, I've got another request to make of the article as I hope to keep proposing updates and improvements to it. I've noticed on other company articles that many of them have Company overview sections that provide basic operational details near the top of the article. I know this article currently has an Operations section (and thank you @ Zefr: for your help in updating the leadership there!), but I was wondering what editors thought about replacing that with a Company overview section and moving it up in the article?
I noticed the current section also has some unsourced content, so I tried to make updates to it and shrink it down a bit (and found this cool "collapse" thing!).
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I think the revised lede today covers the general article content, and the infobox is sufficient for details that are probably not useful to the general user. See WP:LEAD. There are a few inconsistencies of details between the non-Dole sources and About from the corporate website dated 2022. Without specific checking, I sense some of the sources could be consolidated, so will refer to WG at Dole to guide on how these can be represented. Zefr ( talk) 00:03, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
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Dole plc (previously named Dole Food Company, Standard Fruit Company) is an Irish agricultural multinational corporation headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. The company is among the world's largest producers of fruit and vegetables, operating with 38,500 full-time and seasonal employees who supply more than 300 products in 75 countries. Dole reported 2021 revenues of $6.5 billion. [1] As of 2021, the company had approximately 250 processing plants and distribution centers worldwide in addition to 109,000 acres (44,000 ha) of farmland and real estate. The company operates through four segments: Fresh Fruit (bananas and pineapples; about 35% of 2020 revenues); Diversified Fresh Produce in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; Diversified Fresh Produce in the Americas and other world regions (combined 37% of 2020 revenues); and Fresh Vegetables (29% of 2020 revenues). Dole grows and markets bananas, pineapples, grapes, berries, deciduous and citrus fruits, and vegetable salads. Dole operates 13 cargo vessels for importing its produce and exporting third-party goods to Latin America. [1] [2] [3] References
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Dole plc is the largest producer of fresh fruits and vegetables in the world. [1] As of 2021, the company had approximately 250 processing plants and distribution centres worldwide in addition to 114,000 acres (46,000 ha) of farmland and real estate. That year, Dole employed approximately 38,500 people globally and reported revenues of $6.454 billion. [2] After the merger of Total Produce and the Dole Food Company in 2021, Rory Byrne serves as chief executive officer, Carl McCann serves as executive chairman, and Johan Lindén serves as chief operating officer. The company's global headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland, and it maintains a headquarters for the Americas in Charlotte, North Carolina. [3] [1] In addition to its fruit and vegetable divisions, Dole owns a fleet of 13 cargo ships through its logistics division, Dole Ocean Cargo Express. [4] [2]
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I think that this proposed paragraph improves the sourcing for that section and helps make the article more accurate by using the most up to date information I could find. I've also got some updates I'd like to propose to the infobox, and the changes here will support making those changes later. Please let me know what you think about adding something like what I've proposed to the article. If any editors are interested in what I hope to achieve with the article, I made a draft, which can be found here.
I want to make sure that I follow all the rules so I won't make any changes myself due to my conflict of interest. Thanks in advance for your consideration! WG at Dole ( talk) 20:31, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered. |
Hello editors, I've got another request to make, this time for the History section. I understand that Dole has a complex history, but I believe in my draft, which can be found here, I have captured the nuance of that history and added some important missing information since the merger with Total Produce.
Because the History section is so long in my draft, I'll make my requests in smaller chunks that are hopefully a bit easier to digest.
In general, my thoughts are to organize the section by major milestone periods, essentially "Early history," "Growth" and "Modern day," though I know that Wikipedia likes to see a bit more specificity, so I've added years to the section headers.
All that in mind, I'd like to propose the creation of a new subsection in the History section that details how Dole traces its early history, something like this:
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Dole plc traces its origins to the foundation of Castle & Cooke in 1851, and Charles McCann's Fish, Fruit and Vegetable Market in the 1850s in Ireland. [1] [2] Castle & Cooke, a sugar and logistics company, was founded in Hawaii by Amos Starr Cooke and Samuel Northrup Castle. [3] References
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Please let me know what you think! @ Zefr:, you've been so kind in reviewing my past requests, would you consider reviewing this one as well? I'd really appreciate it! WG at Dole ( talk) 22:51, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
The food safety section is mostly out of date with prior contamination outbreaks any fresh food company would face, and with no balance of positive measures required by the USDA, FDA, and industry quality assurance associations, such as in California where Dole produce is grown. Independent QA sources will be needed to support a more balanced presentation of food safety. Zefr ( talk) 19:24, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
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Hi editors, as Zefr noted, the Food safety section is a bit dated and imbalanced. I drafted a new version of the section that condenses the content, removes some things that use low-quality sourcing (I believe the general rule of thumb is to use the green sources on the reliable sources list for potentially controversial content, right?), and mentions some of the proactive steps Dole took in response to potential outbreaks. I'll post that below.
I spent a significant amount of time searching for content about the food safety steps taken in those green sources, but unfortunately came up with very little. The best thing I have other than some passing mentions of voluntary recalls, which I included in the draft section below, about Dole's efforts to improve food safety internally come from the company's Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability report. The planned efforts are on page 35 and include a strengthening of hygiene standards and use of blockchain product tagging to track potentially problematic produce. Sorry I don't have much that is better than that! I am trying to be extra mindful of my COI, so I am really focusing on those green sources in the reliable sources listand have not included that content. I'll defer to other editors on it.
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Products Dole plc makes or grows more than 300 products, including pineapple, bananas, [1] berries, [2] citrus fruits, [3] fresh vegetables, [1] lettuce, and packaged salads. [4] Food safety Dole has initiated several recalls of its products and shut down manufacturing facilities for cleaning in response to outbreaks of foodborne illness, primarily related to bagged salads and leafy greens. 2000s Officials with the Minnesota Department of Health found Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Dole bagged lettuce in 2005. The outbreak infected 25 people in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Oregon. [5] The following year, an E. coli outbreak that infected more than 200 people and killed three was traced back to a spinach processor in California which packaged spinach under the Dole brand. [6] Dole initiated a recall of the tainted spinach. [7] In 2007, Dole voluntarily recalled more than 5,000 bags of its "Hearts Delight" salad mix after an inspection by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency found it had been contaminated with E. coli. No illnesses were reported from the contamination. [8] 2010s Dole recalled its "Seven Lettuces" salads in 2012 after random testing by New York health officials found salmonella in the salads. [9] The same year, the company issued two recalls of its bagged salads due to contamination by Listeria monocytogenes. [10] The company initiated another recall due to contamination by L. monocytogenes in 2014. [11] The following year, Dole recalled bagged spinach due to contamination with salmonella following safety testing conducted by the United States Food and Drug Administration at a plant in Springfield, Ohio. [12] In 2016, an outbreak of listeriosis tied to the Springfield plant led to the hospitalization of 33 people and four deaths. The plant closed for four months that year, and later reporting revealed Dole knew about the listeria contamination in July 2014, more than a year before the plant's closure. The United States Department of Justice initiated a criminal probe into the issue. [13] Dole settled two civil lawsuits related to the outbreak in 2017. [14] 2020s In December 2021, Dole recalled 180 varieties of packaged salad due to possible listeria contamination and closed packaging facilities in Yuma, Arizona, and Bessemer City, North Carolina, to sanitize them. [15] The outbreak led to an investigation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after two people died and 17 became ill. [16] References
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Zefr, please let me know what you think of this new section. It brings the Products subsection down from Operations, which I think helps with balancing the headings of the sections a bit more, and adds a little content from the lead, but I'm certainly open to other ideas! It also adds a photo of some fresh-cut pineapple that I found on the Commons that is just a good photo. WG at Dole ( talk) 22:49, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
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Hello editors, I've got a bit of a tricky request here but I think it makes sense based on Wikipedia policy and general redundancy. I'd like to request the removal of the Criticism and controversies section. The essence of that section has been redistributed in the History section with Zefr's updates, and done so in a way that is more complete and uses better quality sourcing.
I believe that Wikipedia policy also supports this position. The NPOV guidelines note that "Segregation of text or other content into different regions or subsections, based solely on the apparent POV of the content itself, may result in an unencyclopedic structure," which I think has happened here. The essay on criticism in articles also notes that, "Often the best approach to incorporating negative criticism into the encyclopedia is to integrate it into the article, in a way that does not disrupt the article's flow". I believe that has been accomplished with the reworked History section.
Specific items now covered by the History section include:
That does leave a fair bit of content to cut:
I thought I'd make all the arguments at once so they can be judged together, but I'm happy to discuss each item individually if editors prefer. Please let me know what you think and I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. As always, I won't make any edits myself because of my conflict of interest. WG at Dole ( talk) 20:46, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
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Hello editors, I had another request to make of the article. Some content that has now been removed dealt with some of Dole's marketing campaigns over the years. I think some of those (and some different ones) are notable enough to warrant inclusion in this article, specifically Dole's collaboration with Georgia O'Keeffe in the early 20th century, the development of 5 A Day Adventures in the early 1990s, and Dole's collaboration with Disney, plus a small smattering of others. I have a suggestion for a Marketing section below. I've done my best to stick to only the best sources with it and tried to keep the prose as neutral as possible. Please let me know what you think!
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File:5 A Day Adventures Logo.png Early products of the Hawaiian Pineapple Company were not marketed under a particular brand name, often assuming the names of the distributors. [1]: 150 In the early 20th century, pineapple was still relatively unknown, and James Dole and other growers mounted an awareness campaign in magazines in what the company now refers to as one of the first nationwide advertising campaigns in the United States. [2] In 1927, the HPC began stamping its cans with the Dole brand name, with numbers to indicate the grade. These stamps ensured the Dole name would still be visible even if the label was changed by a distributor. [1]: 154 To further advertise its products, the HPC paid artist Georgia O'Keeffe to come to Hawaii and paint a pair of advertisements for Dole pineapple juice. [3] Following Castle & Cooke's acquisition of Standard Fruit in 1968, Standard bananas continued to be marketed under the Standard label; however, the company switched the fruit to be marketed under the Dole label in 1972. [4]: 292-293 Dole overhauled its logo in the 1980s, replacing its old red-and-white logo that featured a small pineapple crown over the "o" in Dole with a more stylized logo that changed the "o" to a sunburst. This logo first began appearing in 1984. [5] In 2018, Dole redesigned its logo again, setting sunburst logo inside a leaf shape to "(signify) natural and fresh products," according to Food Business News. [6] In an attempt to get children to eat more fruits and vegetables, Dole developed the computer game 5 A Day Adventures in 1994. The game was offered to schools at no charge and featured characters such as Bobby Banana and Barney Broccoli that educated players about fruits and vegetables. [7] By 1995, the game was in use in 14,000 schools around the United States. [8] In 2016, Dole partnered with The Walt Disney Company to market fruits and vegetables branded with Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars characters in an effort to get children to eat more produce. [9] The partnership included co-branded recipes to go along with Disney releases, including Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Frozen II. [9] [10] References
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It will look like there are some citation errors, but those citations are defined in the main article. Zefr, would you have any interest in taking a look at this request? I'd really appreciate it! WG at Dole ( talk) 21:13, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
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Hello editors, I've got another request to add content to the article. I suggest adding small sections on Dole's sustainability and philanthropy efforts. I've done my best to stick to reliable sources, and included one primary source for a basic statement of fact. I suggest something a bit like the following:
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Philanthropy Dole partnered with First Lady Michelle Obama's 2010 Let's Move! campaign to install salad bars in school cafeterias in the United States. By 2013, the partnership had created nearly 2,500 salad bars in schools around the country. [1] In 2020, Dole donated more than 2 million pounds of produce to food banks in the United States and Latin America, as well personal protective equipment to Latin American communities, during shortages caused by the coronavirus pandemic. [2] Sustainability In 2014, Dole made investments in the Port of San Diego's shore power infrastructure to reduce exhaust emissions from docked ships. Dole added five electric freight trucks to its fleet at the port in 2022, making 35% of Dole trucks electric. [3] In 2020, Dole launched "The Dole Way" initiative, which laid out food safety, philanthropic, and environmental goals for the company to achieve by 2030. [4] References
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Please let me know what you think! I will not make this edit myself due to my COI. @ Zefr: I really appreciate all the work you've done on this article and responding to my requests. Would you consider reviewing this one as well? I'd appreciate it! WG at Dole ( talk) 19:20, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
Any help on what to consider as a corporation's founding date? This page had listed the date in the infobox as June 2023, an obvious mistake. Looking through the history shows what looks like a mistaken reversion to a good-faith error, but back beyond that it seems to have said 1851 for a while. That's the founding date of Castle & Cooke, a company that would eventually buy Dole, but James Dole himself hadn't even been born at that point. Looking at archives of their page, Dole seems once to have claimed 1851 as a founding date, but now ( [1]) says the "foundations" were laid in 1851 and claims no particular date. James Dole established the Hawaiian Pineapple Company (which would later bear his name) in 1901, so that's the date I put in, but this sort of thing seems like as much philosophy as history. Three white leopards ( talk) 18:38, 29 May 2023 (UTC)