Dole Food Co.

Business: Food, resorts Symbol: DOL Shares Outstanding: 59.4 million Market: NYSE Closing Price on 5/3/93: $36.13 Qtrly Profit (loss) for March 1993: $53.3 million Qtrly Revenue for March 1993: $766.5 million Dole Food Co., which traces its roots to 1851, is one of the nation’s biggest processors and marketers of fresh fruits and vegetables, and it operates resort hotels in Hawaii. The company also had a homebuilding unit but that division, Castle & Cooke Homes Inc., was partially spun off to the public in March with Dole retaining an 80% stake. Dole’s chairman and biggest stockholder is billionaire David H. Murdock, who also moved Dole’s headquarters to Westlake Village from West Los Angeles in 1991. Source: Dole Food Co.