Fyffes of bananas from overseas plantations. In May 1969, the company was renamed Fyffes Group Ltd, recognising the diversity and importance of the then (x-number) subsidiary companies. It became an Irish company following takeover by the Irish group FII plc in 1986. FII plc had been created when Torney Brothers & McCann, (the origins of that company were Charles McCann's apple exporting business founded in 1890) merged with United Fruit Importers Limited to form Fruit Importers of Ireland Limited in 1968. The combined company was initially known as FII Fyffes plc, but became simply Fyffes plc in 1989. In 2002 Fyffes
Natural Fruit Company On 18 September 2015, an appeals court threw out a defamation case, originally brought by Natural Fruit against Hall in September 2013, saying that police never should have investigated the charges. Natural Fruit accused Hall of defaming the company in an interview he gave to "Al Jazeera" while in Burma (Myanmar). The court said that because the interview did not take place in Thailand, the case had no grounds for being heard in Thailand. On 18 January 2016, Hall was indicted by a Bangkok court on charges of criminal defamation and computer crimes related to his investigations of Natfruit. He