-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, TKWZC2PYvFfycS8BYyw3JL8WxhwZnlpD7Jv7wNFZBSGpaCTCchwqcKweU5AEgTv4 57gJqJnArpxjlm8MLCgrTQ== 0001209191-09-049604.txt : 20091023 0001209191-09-049604.hdr.sgml : 20091023 20091023144533 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001209191-09-049604 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20091023 FILED AS OF DATE: 20091023 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20091023 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: DOLE FOOD CO INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000018169 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION - CROPS [0100] IRS NUMBER: 990035300 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE DOLE DRIVE CITY: WESTLAKE VILLAGE STATE: CA ZIP: 91362 BUSINESS PHONE: 8188796600 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE DOLE DRIVE CITY: WESTLAKE VILLAGE STATE: CA ZIP: 91362 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: DOLE FOOD COMPANY INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: CASTLE & COOKE INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19910731 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Chao Elaine L. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001474863 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-04455 FILM NUMBER: 091134385 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O DOLE FOOD COMPANY, INC. STREET 2: ONE DOLE DRIVE CITY: WESTLAKE VILLAGE STATE: CA ZIP: 91362 3 1 c91291_3x1.xml MAIN DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION X0203 3 2009-10-23 1 0000018169 DOLE FOOD CO INC DOLE 0001474863 Chao Elaine L. C/O DOLE FOOD COMPANY, INC. ONE DOLE DRIVE WESTLAKE VILLAGE CA 91362 1 0 0 0 Exhibit 24 - Power of Attorney. /s/ C. Michael Carter, attorney-in-fact 2009-10-23 EX-24 2 c91291_24.htm POWER OF ATTORNEY Power of Attorney

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints Dole Food Company, Inc.’ Corporate Secretary, C. Michael Carter, and its Assistant Secretaries, Jeffrey Conner, Genevieve Kelly and Timothy Oswald, with full power of substitution, the undersigned’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

  (1)   prepare, execute in the undersigned’s name and on the undersigned’s behalf, and submit to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) a Form ID, including amendments thereto, and any other documents necessary or appropriate to obtain codes and passwords enabling the undersigned to make electronic filings with the SEC of reports required by Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or any rule or regulation of the SEC;

  (2)   execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned’s capacity as an officer and/or director of Dole Food Company, Inc. (the “Company”), Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;

  (3)   do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5, complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such form with the SEC and any stock exchange or similar authority; and

  (4)   take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact’s discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact’s substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorney-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, is not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned’s responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the undersigned’s holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorney-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 19 day of October 2009.

/s/ Elaine L. Chao
Signature

Elaine L. Chao
Print Name

 

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