Highlights from the company’s third corporate responsibility report:

• Saved more than $8 million annually from lower agrichemical use and pallet recycling
• Days on strike fell by 25 percent in 2002 and 70 percent in 2003 compared to 2001
• 100 percent of Chiquita’s company-owned farms certified to the strict environmental standards of the Rainforest Alliance
• Volume of purchased bananas from Rainforest Alliance-certified farms increased to more than 65 percent in 2003 from 33 percent in 2001
• Set goal to phase out by 2007 all refrigerated containers using chlorofluorocarbons, which are known to contribute to the depletion of the earth’s ozone layer
• Reduced sulfur content of ship fuel to less than half the maximum-allowable 5 percent