Segment Information

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2011

Segment Information [Abstract]

Segment Information

Note 12 – Segment Information

The company reports three business segments:

• Bananas: Includes the sourcing (purchase and production), transportation, marketing and distribution of bananas.

• Salads and Healthy Snacks: Includes ready-to-eat, packaged salads, referred to in the industry as "value-added salads"; and other value-added products, such as healthy snacking products, fresh vegetable and fruit ingredients used in food service; processed fruit ingredient products; and the company's equity method investment in Danone Chiquita Fruits, which sells Chiquita-branded fruit smoothies in Europe. (See Note14)

• Other Produce: Includes the sourcing, marketing and distribution of whole fresh fruits and vegetables other than bananas.

Certain corporate expenses are not allocated to the reportable segments and are included in "Corporate." Inter-segment transactions are eliminated. Financial information for each segment follows:

	Quarter Ended Sept. 30,						Nine Months Ended Sept. 30,
(In thousands)	2011			2010			2011			2010
Net sales:
Bananas	$	453,401		$	431,335		$	1,547,613		$	1,454,519
Salads and Healthy Snacks		239,784			251,418			730,943			797,986
Other Produce		29,579			46,953			139,022			201,861
	$	722,764		$	729,706		$	2,417,578		$	2,454,366
Operating income (loss):
Bananas	$	6,623		$	2,773		$	122,392		$	70,732
Salads and Healthy Snacks1		(2,749	)		17,741			6,557			99,393
Other Produce2		(1,536	)		657			(38,117	)		3,930
Corporate		(12,733	)		(14,836	)		(45,181	)		(53,426	)
	$	(10,395	)	$	6,335		$	45,651		$	120,629

1 Salads and Healthy Snacks segment includes a gain on the deconsolidation and sale of the European smoothie business of $32 million in 2010 as described in Note 14.

2 Other Produce segment includes a reserve of $32 million in the second quarter of 2011 for advances made to a Chilean grower as described in Note 2.