Chiquita Brands International Inc. Fundamental Company Report Including Financial, SWOT, Competitors and Industry Analysis
- The report contains detailed information about Chiquita Brands International Inc. that gives an unrivalled in-depth knowledge about internal business-environment of the company: data about the owners, senior executives, locations, subsidiaries, markets, products, and company history.
- Another part of the report is a SWOT-analysis carried out for Chiquita Brands International Inc.. It involves specifying the objective of the company's business and identifies the different factors that are favorable and unfavorable to achieving that objective. SWOT-analysis helps to understand company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and possible threats against it.
- The Chiquita Brands International Inc. financial analysis covers the income statement and ratio trend-charts with balance sheets and cash flows presented on an annual and quarterly basis. The report outlines the main financial ratios pertaining to profitability, margin analysis, asset turnover, credit ratios, and company’s long-term solvency. This sort of company's information will assist and strengthen your company’s decision-making processes.
- In the part that describes Chiquita Brands International Inc. competitors and the industry in whole, the information about company's financial ratios is compared to those of its competitors and to the industry. The unique analysis of the market and company’s competitors along with detailed information about the internal and external factors affecting the relevant industry will help to manage your business environment. Your company’s business and sales activities will be boosted by gaining an insight into your competitors’ businesses.
- Also the report provides relevant news, an analysis of PR-activity, and stock price movements. The latter are correlated with pertinent news and press releases, and annual and quarterly forecasts are given by a variety of experts and market research firms. Such information creates your awareness about principal trends of Chiquita Brands International Inc. business.
About Chiquita Brands International Inc.
Chiquita Brands International, Inc. markets and distributes bananas and other fresh produce under the Chiquita and other brand names and packaged salads under the Fresh Express' and other brand names in the United States.
Segments
The company operates in three segments: Bananas; Salads and Healthy Snacks; and Other Produce.
Banana Segment
The Banana segment sources, distributes, and markets bananas sold principally under the Chiquita brand name in Europe and other international markets, with the remainder in North America. Chiquitas other international markets for bananas include the Middle East, Japan, and Korea.
Customers: The company's customers are primarily retailers, ripeners, and wholesalers. In North America, the company's retail customers are national and regional grocery retailers.
Competition: The companys competitors include Dole Food Company, Inc., Fresh Del Monte Produce, Inc. and Fyffes plc.
Salads and Healthy Snacks Segment
The Salads and Healthy Snacks segment includes packaged, ready-to-eat salads in the retail market sold under the Fresh Express and other labels, fresh vegetable and fruit ingredients used in foodservice, healthy snacks, and processed fruit ingredient products.
The company's salads business, Fresh Express, is a purchaser, processor, packager, and distributor of various value-added salads and other healthy snacks in North America. The company distributes approximately 270 different retail value-added salad products nationwide to food retailers and approximately 50 value-added healthy snacking products. It also distributed approximately 270 fresh produce foodservice offerings, primarily to third-party distributors for resale mainly to quick-service restaurants located throughout the U.S. The company also sells a line of healthy snacks, including Chiquita Fruit Bites, which are single-serve fruit snacks sold in convenience, retail, and foodservice outlets and quick-service restaurants.
Competition: Retail competitors include Dole Food Company, Taylor Farms, Ready Pac Produce, and Earthbound Farms.
Other Produce Segment
This segment distributes and markets a line of fresh fruit and vegetables other than bananas in Europe and North America and, license the use of the Chiquita brand for pineapples sold in Japan and Korea.
International Operations
The company operates in many foreign countries, including those in Central America, Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Africa.
Significant Events
In March 2010, Chiquita Brands International Inc. announced a joint venture with Danone to market fruit beverages based on Chiquita's Just Fruit in a Bottle platform in Europe.
History
Chiquita Brands International, Inc. was founded in 1899.
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RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
DISCLAIMER
1. CHIQUITA BRANDS INTERNATIONAL INC. COMPANY PROFILE
1.1. Key facts
1.2. Financial Performance
1.3. Key Executives
1.4. Ownership and Major Holders
1.5. Company History
2. CHIQUITA BRANDS INTERNATIONAL INC. BUSINESS OVERVIEW
2.1. Business Description
2.2. Major Products and Services
2.3. Markets and Sales Activities
2.4. Locations, Subsidiaries, Operating Units
3. CHIQUITA BRANDS INTERNATIONAL INC. SWOT ANALYSIS
3.1. Overview
3.2. Strengths
3.3. Weaknesses
3.4. Opportunities
3.5. Threats
4. CHIQUITA BRANDS INTERNATIONAL INC. FINANCIAL ANALYSIS
4.1. Financial Statements
4.1.1. Income Statement
4.1.2. Balance Sheet
4.1.3. Cash Flow
4.2. Financial Ratios
4.2.1. Profitability
4.2.2. Margin Analysis
4.2.3. Asset Turnover
4.2.4. Credit Ratios
4.2.5. Long-Term Solvency
4.2.6. Growth Over Prior Year
4.2.7. Financial Ratios Charts
4.3. Stock Market Snapshot
5. CHIQUITA BRANDS INTERNATIONAL INC. COMPETITORS AND INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
5.1. Chiquita Brands International Inc. Direct Competitors
5.2. Comparison of Chiquita Brands International Inc. and Direct Competitors Financial Ratios
5.3. Comparison of Chiquita Brands International Inc. and Direct Competitors Stock Charts
5.4. Chiquita Brands International Inc. Industry Analysis
5.4.1. Food and Beverages Industry Snapshot
5.4.2. Chiquita Brands International Inc. Industry Position Analysis
6. CHIQUITA BRANDS INTERNATIONAL INC. NEWS & EVENTS
6.1. News & PR Activity Analysis
6.2. IR Corporate News
6.3. Marketing News
6.4. Corporate Events
7. CHIQUITA BRANDS INTERNATIONAL INC. EXPERTS REVIEW1
7.1. Experts Consensus
7.2. Experts Revisions
8. CHIQUITA BRANDS INTERNATIONAL INC. ENHANCED SWOT ANALYSIS2
9. UNITED STATES PESTEL ANALYSIS2
9.1. Political Factors
9.2. Economic Factors
9.3. Social Factors
9.4. Technological Factors
9.5. Environmental Factors
9.6. Legal Factors
10. CHIQUITA BRANDS INTERNATIONAL INC. IFE, EFE, IE MATRICES2
10.1. Internal Factor Evaluation Matrix
10.2. External Factor Evaluation Matrix
10.3. Internal External Matrix
11. CHIQUITA BRANDS INTERNATIONAL INC. PORTER FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS2
12. CHIQUITA BRANDS INTERNATIONAL INC. VRIO ANALYSIS2
APPENDIX: RATIO DEFINITIONS
LIST OF FIGURES
Chiquita Brands International Inc. Annual Revenues in Comparison with Cost of Goods Sold and Gross Profit
Profit Margin Chart
Operating Margin Chart
Return on Equity (ROE) Chart
Return on Assets (ROA) Chart
Debt to Equity Chart
Current Ratio Chart
Chiquita Brands International Inc. 1-year Stock Charts
Chiquita Brands International Inc. 5-year Stock Charts
Chiquita Brands International Inc. vs. Main Indexes 1-year Stock Chart
Chiquita Brands International Inc. vs. Direct Competitors 1-year Stock Charts
Chiquita Brands International Inc. Article Density Chart
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Chiquita Brands International Inc. Key Facts
Profitability
Management Effectiveness
Income Statement Key Figures
Balance Sheet Key Figures
Cash Flow Statement Key Figures
Financial Performance Abbreviation Guide
Chiquita Brands International Inc. Key Executives
Chiquita Brands International Inc. Major Shareholders
Chiquita Brands International Inc. History
Chiquita Brands International Inc. Products
Revenues by Segment
Revenues by Region
Chiquita Brands International Inc. Offices and Representations
Chiquita Brands International Inc. SWOT Analysis
Yearly Income Statement Including Trends
Income Statement Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Yearly Balance Sheet Including Trends
Balance Sheet Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Yearly Cash Flow Including Trends
Cash Flow Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Chiquita Brands International Inc. Profitability Ratios
Margin Analysis Ratios
Asset Turnover Ratios
Credit Ratios
Long-Term Solvency Ratios
Financial Ratios Growth Over Prior Year
Chiquita Brands International Inc. Capital Market Snapshot
Chiquita Brands International Inc. Direct Competitors Key Facts
Direct Competitors Profitability Ratios
Direct Competitors Margin Analysis Ratios
Direct Competitors Asset Turnover Ratios
Direct Competitors Credit Ratios
Direct Competitors Long-Term Solvency Ratios
Food and Beverages Industry Statistics
Chiquita Brands International Inc. Industry Position
Company vs. Industry Income Statement Analysis
Company vs. Industry Balance Sheet Analysis
Company vs. Industry Cash Flow Analysis
Company vs. Industry Ratios Comparison
Chiquita Brands International Inc. Consensus Recommendations1
Analyst Recommendation Summary1
Price Target Summary1
Experts Recommendation Trends1
Revenue Estimates Analysis1
Earnings Estimates Analysis1
Historical Surprises1
Revenue Estimates Trend1
Earnings Estimates Trend1
Revenue Revisions1
SWOT Analysis
SWOT, which stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats, is an analytical framework that identifies the internal and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable for a company.
Enhanced SWOT Analysis
Enhanced SWOT is a 3×3 grid that arranges strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats into one scheme:
- How to use the strengths to take advantage of the opportunities?
- How to use the strengths to reduce likelihood and impact of the threats?
- How to overcome the weaknesses that obstruct taking advantage of the opportunities?
- How to overcome the weaknesses that can make the threats a reality?
Upon answering these questions a company can develop a project plan to improve its business performance.
PESTEL Analysis
PESTEL (also termed as PESTLE) is an ideal tool to strategically analyze what influence different outside factors – political, economic, sociocultural, technological, environmental and legal – exert on a business to later chart its long term targets.
Being part of the external analysis when carrying out a strategic assessment or performing a market study, PESTEL gives an overview of diverse macro-environmental factors that any company should thoughtfully consider. By perceiving these outside environments, businesses can maximally benefit from the opportunities while minimizing the threats to the organization.
Key Factors Examined by PESTEL Analysis:
- Political – What opportunities and pressures are brought by political bodies and what is the degree of public regulations’ impact on the business?
- Economic – What economic policies, trends and structures are expected to affect the organization, what is this influence’s degree?
- Sociological – What cultural and societal aspects will work upon the demand for the business’s products and operations?
- Technological – What impact do the technological aspects, innovations, incentives and barriers have on the organization?
- Environmental – What environmental and ecological facets, both locally and farther afield, are likely to predetermine the business?
- Legal – What laws and legislation will exert influence on the style the business is carried out?
IFE, EFE, IE Matrices
The Internal Factor Evaluation matrix (IFE matrix) is a strategic management tool helping audit or evaluate major weaknesses and strengths in a business’s functional areas. In addition, IFE matrix serves as a basis for identifying and assessing relationships amongst those areas. The IFE matrix is utilised in strategy formulation.
The External Factor Evaluation matrix (EFE matrix) is a tool of strategic management that is typically utilised to assess current market conditions. It is an ideal instrument for visualising and prioritising the threats and opportunities a firm is facing.
The essential difference between the above mentioned matrices lies in the type of factors incorporated in the model; whilst the latter is engaged in internal factors, the former deals exceptionally with external factors – those exposed to social, political, economic, legal, etc. external forces.
Being a continuation of the EFE matrix and IFE matrix models, the Internal External matrix (IE matrix) rests upon an investigation of external and internal business factors integrated into one suggestive model.
Porter Five Forces Analysis
The Porter’s five forces analysis studies the industry of operation and helps the company find new sources of competitive advantage. The analysis surveys an industry through five major questions:
- What composes a threat of substitute products and services?
- Is there a threat of new competitors entering the market?
- What is the intensity of competitive rivalry?
- How big is the bargaining power of buyers?
- How significant is the bargaining power of suppliers?
VRIO Analysis
VRIO stands for Value, Rarity, Imitability, Organization. This analysis helps to evaluate all company’s resources and capabilities and bring them together into one aggregate table that includes:
- Tangible resources
- Financial
- Physical
- Technological
- Organizational
- Intangible resources
- Human
- Innovation and Creativity
- Reputation
- Organizational capabilities
The result of the analysis gives a clear picture of company’s competitive and economic implications, answering the questions if the resources mentioned above are:
- Valuable?
- Rare?
- Costly to imitate?
- Organized properly?
