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Cover of Cabbages and Kings (1904 edition). In the 20th century, American writer O. Henry (William Sydney Porter, 1862–1910) coined the term banana republic to describe the fictional Republic of Anchuria in the book Cabbages and Kings (1904), [1] a collection of thematically related short stories inspired by his experiences in Honduras, whose economy was heavily dependent on the export of ...
Gap was founded in 1969 by Donald Fisher and Doris F. Fisher and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. ... Banana Republic Europe - - - - 3 3 5 10 10 11 11 10
The Zieglers subsequently founded another apparel company, Zoza, [2] [3] [4] but this was shut down in the dot com crash of 2000. [5] Their eldest son, Zio Ziegler, is a large-scale metal sculptor, painter, and street artist. [6] The couple published a 2012 memoir titled Wild Company, The Untold Story of Banana Republic.
They went on to purchase Banana Republic, a small, two-store mail-order catalogue business; and also founded Old Navy which reached $1 billion in sales in four years. [2] Fisher served as CEO until 1995, chairman of the board until 2004, and as company director and chairman emeritus until his death. [2]
In this shorthand, a banana republic is any corrupt government or political unrest, but the term specifically conjures images of Latin American countries such as Honduras, Cuba, and Nicaragua.
After the peak of the banana republic era, resistance eventually began to grown on the part of small-scale producers and production laborers, due to the exponential rate in growth of the wealth gap as well as the collusion between the profiting Honduran government officials and the U.S. fruit companies (United Fruit Co., Standard Fruit Co ...
The company was founded in 1992 by Mel Ziegler, Patricia Ziegler, and Bill Rosenzweig. The Zieglers co-founded Banana Republic and ZoZa.com. [3] [4] In 1994, they sold the company to Ron Rubin. [5] Rubin's son Todd Rubin joined the company in 2007 [6] and succeeded his father as president in 2015.
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