date:Aug 13, 2013
rkets analyst Jonathan Feeney wrote in a note.
Murdock's attempts to buy the company comes 10 years after he took the seller of bananas, pineapples, berries and packaged salads private for $2.5 billion. The company was listed again in 2009.
Dole has been struggling with volatile demand and low prices for bananas and sold its packaged foods and Asia fresh produce businesses to Itochu for $1.7 billion in April, shrinking its size by a third.
The proposed deal for Dole still requires approval fr