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
Wild About Fruit Company Wild About Fruit Company The Wild About Fruit Company is an Australian fruit company, located in Victoria's prime produce area, the Yarra Valley. The company is owned and operated by a third generation of the Mould family. Its main operations take place in Wandin with other properties located at Coldstream, Bacchus Marsh, Gundagai, New South Wales and Kerang. As of 2002, it was growing 40 different of cherries for the domestic and export fresh cherry market, as well as cultivating hundreds of cannabis/ marijuana plants successfully and distributing a drug of dependence... all on the land right next to a