Dole Fresh Fruit work force to drop 13%

By Dawn Withers, thepacker.com

(Feb. 3, 11:39 a.m.) Dole Fresh Fruit Co., Westlake Village, Calif., announced Feb. 2 it’s cutting its global work force by 13%.

Dole communications manager Bil Goldfield said the cuts are primarily from the recent sale of the company’s floral business. Other cuts have been made through attrition and the sale of some of Dole’s Latin American banana holdings.

The cuts take Dole’s work force to 76,000.